react-track-player 🎧

Cross Platform audio streaming Module for React native. Provides audio playback, external media controls, background mode and more!

Features

• [x] Lightweight - Complete audio library without managing queue, the code is optimized to use least resources
• [x] Background play - Audio can be playing in the background and media can be controlled externally as well
• [x] Local or network, files or streams - Support for online streaming and offline files
• [x] Multi-platform - Supports Android, iOS and Web
• [x] Supports React Hooks 🎣 - Includes React Hooks for common use-cases so you don’t have to write them

Example

import { TrackPlayer } from "react-track-player";

load = () => {
  TrackPlayer.load({
    title: "Awesome song",
    artist: "Mr. Awesome",
    album: "Awesome songs only",
    cover: "https://source.unsplash.com/random",
    path: "https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/8avcnxmjtdujytz/Sher%20Aaya%20Sher.mp3?dl=0",
  }).then(() => {
    console.log("audio loaded");
  });
};

play = () => {
  TrackPlayer.play();
};

pause = () => {
  TrackPlayer.pause();
};

Install

Install the module using yarn or npm

Using npm

npm install react-track-player --save

Using Yarn

yarn add react-track-player

Troubleshooting

Issues while installing might be listed in troubleshooting page.

Getting started

First of all, you need to set up the player. This usually takes less than a second:

import TrackPlayer from 'react-track-player';

await TrackPlayer.setup({})
// The player is ready to be used

Player Information

Event handler

import { addEventListener } from "react-track-player";

subscription = addListener("media", function (event) {
  // handle event
  console.log("from event listener", event);
  if (event == "skip_to_next") {
    skipToNext();
  } else if (event == "skip_to_previous") {
    skipToPrevious();
  } else if (event == "completed") {
    skipToNext();
  } else {
    updateStatus();
  }
});

subscription.remove();

API

Load Audio into track player

TrackPlayer.load({
    title: "Awesome song",
    artist: "Mr. Awesome",
    album: "Awesome songs only",
    cover: "https://source.unsplash.com/random",
    path: "https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/8avcnxmjtdujytz/Sher%20Aaya%20Sher.mp3?dl=0",
})

Load a track into track player. Audio wont be played untill play() function is called.

Returns: Promise - The promise resolves if it is sucess

Param	Type	Description
title	string	Track title
artist	string	Name of the artist
album	string	Name of the album
cover	string	Audio cover image path
path	string	Audio url or path for native audio files

State

TrackPlayer.getState()

This method can be used to get the state of the player

Returns: Promise

Get Position

TrackPlayer.getPosition();

Get track player progress position.

Returns: Promise

Get Duration

TrackPlayer.getDuration();

Gets the duration of the current track in seconds.

Returns: Promise

Destroy

TrackPlayer.destroy()

Destroys the player, cleaning up its resources. After executing this function, you won’t be able to use the player anymore, unless you call setup() again. Get track duration.

Returns: Promise

Hooks

usePlaybackState

usePlaybackState gives the state of the player

useProgress

useProgress accepts an interval to set the rate (in miliseconds) to poll the track player’s progress. The default value is 1000 or every second.

import React from 'react';
import { Text, View } from 'react-native';
import { TrackPlayer, useProgress } from 'react-track-player';

const MyComponent = () => {
  const { position, duration } = useProgress()

  return (
    <View>
    <Slider
          style={{ width: '100%', height: 40 }}
          minimumValue={0}
          maximumValue={duration}
          value={position}
          onSlidingComplete={value => {
            TrackPlayer.pause();
            TrackPlayer.seekTo(value)
            TrackPlayer.play();
          }}
        />
      <Text>Track progress: {position} seconds out of {duration} total</Text>
    </View>
  )
}