AVAudioPlayer with MPMusicPlayerController

Question

I have music playing within my application using a MPMusicPlayerController, using iPodMusicPlayer (also tried applicationMusicPlayer). When I play a so

Answer 1

Oded Ben Dov's solution does the job, but you might not want to change your session category. For example, if you want your audio to keep playing while the screen is locked, you need the Playback category.

In that case, you can apply this category override instead:

UInt32 mixWithOthers = YES;
AudioSessionSetProperty(kAudioSessionProperty_OverrideCategoryMixWithOthers, sizeof(mixWithOthers), &mixWithOthers);