What is SpringRadio?
SpringRadio is an online radio player with SwiftUI. The player control’s background colour could change depending on station’s image. Tapping the image on player control, will go to the detail page where there are some floating Text animation. The orientations include horizontal and vertical and it can randomly display. The inspiration comes from Microsoft MP3, Zune HD.
The detail page: 
The git address is https://github.com/jacklandrin/SpringRadio
About Sound Wave of Realtime Audio
The effect of sound wave derives from AudioSpectrum. Its developer describes the details in his blogs. The essential is analysis of the audio’s PCM buffer to calculate a Hanning Window graph. Thus, how to seize PCM buffer from a realtime stream audio is a question, because AVPlayer can’t do that.
I modified AudioStreamer that is an audio player with AudioToolbox to implement it. This player contains a Downloader to send a HTTP request to get audio data. Then the Parser can collect these data and process them. While AVPlayNode is commanded to play the audio, the Reader will read the packets collected from Parser. After that, Reader create AVAudioPCMBuffer based on these packets, and it send the buffer to PlayerNode. The AudioEngine could callback the buffer that is playing via installTap function of its mainMixerNode.
Like this, these pieces of buffer can be put into AudioSpectrum’s RealtimeAnalyzer to generate the sound wave data, and SpectrumView will render them to display the wave.
Since AudioStreamer is not originally designed for realtime audio, the Parser collects the data downloaded until request completing, which causes memory issue for online radio. So, I added a strategy, which the Reader will remove certain numbers of packets of Parser in case this problem, while the Reader consume certain account of data. Besides, while the PlayNode schedules the buffer, the function will check if there are enough packets to be read in case audio stalling.
Requirement
- iOS 13
- Swift 5.2
- Xcode 11
References
I referenced these projects:
Others
You can add other online radio items from this website https://www.internet-radio.com
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