Pause/ Play Audio Player with NSTimer iOS Objective C

Question

I am developing an Music player App. And using Play/Pause button and a Progress bar while playing an audio. and I am calling a method with NSTimer to update progress bar. What I need is to pause the progress bar and resume it where it was left off.

I can pause the timer as well the progress bar with the code referred from the links: 1. How to pause a NSTimer? 2. How to Pause/Play NSTimer?

But I am struggling in resuming it where ii was left off. I also need to update progress bar based on the audio.

My code is as below:

AVAudioPlayer *audioPlayer;
NSTimer *audioTimer;
BOOL play;

BOOL ispaused;
int seconds1;
int minutes1;
int hours1;

NSDate *pauseStart, *previousFireDate;

Play/Pause Button action:

- (IBAction)playSoundTapped:(id)sender
{
songUrl = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.stephaniequinn.com/Music/Allegro%20from%20Duet%20in%20C%20Major.mp3"];

self.playerItem = [AVPlayerItem playerItemWithURL:songUrl];
self.player = [AVPlayer playerWithPlayerItem:self.playerItem];
self.player = [AVPlayer playerWithURL:songUrl];

if (play==YES)
{
    if (ispaused == YES)
    {
        float pauseTime = -1*[pauseStart timeIntervalSinceNow];
        [audioTimer setFireDate:[NSDate dateWithTimeInterval:pauseTime sinceDate:previousFireDate]];
        audioTimer = [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:0.1 target:self selector:@selector(updateProgress) userInfo:nil repeats:YES];

        [self.player play];

        ispaused = NO;
    }
    else
    {
        audioTimer = [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:0.1 target:self selector:@selector(updateProgress) userInfo:nil repeats:YES];

        [self.player play];

        ispaused = NO;
    }

    _playImg.image=[UIImage imageNamed:@"Pause.png"];
    play=NO;
}
else
{
    [self.player pause];

    ispaused = YES;

    pauseStart = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSinceNow:0];
    previousFireDate = [audioTimer fireDate];
    [audioTimer setFireDate:[NSDate distantFuture]];

    _playImg.image=[UIImage imageNamed:@"Play.png"];
    play=YES;
}
}

Updates ProgressBar:

- (void)updateProgress
{
    if (ispaused == NO)
    {
        seconds1 += 1;

    if (seconds1 == 60)
    {
        seconds1 = 0;
        minutes1++;

        if (minutes1 == 60)
        {
            minutes1 = 0;
            hours1++;
        }
    }

    float duration = CMTimeGetSeconds([_playerItem duration]);
    float actDuration = duration/100;
    float currentTime = CMTimeGetSeconds([_player currentTime]);
    float minutes = currentTime/60;
    //float seconds = (currentTime - minutes) * 60;
    NSLog(@"Duration: %.2f",actDuration);
    NSLog(@"Current Time: %.2f",minutes);

    NSString *durStr = [NSString stringWithFormat: @"%f",duration];

    if ([durStr  isEqual: @"nan"])
    {
        NSLog(@"Nan");
    }
    else
    {
        [self setProgress:minutes animated:YES];
    }
}
else
{
      NSLog(@“Paused”);        
}
}

It is restarting the audio instead of resuming. As I am a beginner to iOS I don’t know where I'm doing mistake. Can Anyone help me please….?

Answer 1

I got it!

i just add the below in pause function

rate = CMTimeGetSeconds([_player currentTime])/60;

and setting it as a current time to the audio player with the reference from ketan Parmer's Answer

[audioPlayer setCurrentTime:rate];

and when stoping

rate = 0.0;

and rate is a float which is globally declared. Thanks to Ketan..!