Media

This plugin provides the ability to record and play back audio files on a device.

https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-media

Stuck on a Cordova issue?

Don't waste precious time on plugin issues.

If you're building a serious project, you can't afford to spend hours troubleshooting. Ionic’s experts offer premium advisory services for both community plugins and premier plugins.

Installation

Capacitor

$ npm install cordova-plugin-media 
$ npm install @awesome-cordova-plugins/media 
$ ionic cap sync

Cordova

$ ionic cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-media 
$ npm install @awesome-cordova-plugins/media 

Enterprise

Ionic Enterprise comes with fully supported and maintained plugins from the Ionic Team.  Learn More or if you're interested in an enterprise version of this plugin Contact Us

Supported Platforms

• Android
• Browser
• iOS
• Windows

Usage

React

Learn more about using Ionic Native components in React

Angular

import { Media, MediaObject } from '@awesome-cordova-plugins/media/ngx';


constructor(private media: Media) { }


...


// Create a Media instance.  Expects path to file or url as argument
// We can optionally pass a second argument to track the status of the media

const file: MediaObject = this.media.create('file.mp3');

// to listen to plugin events:

file.onStatusUpdate.subscribe(status => console.log(status)); // fires when file status changes

file.onSuccess.subscribe(() => console.log('Action is successful'));

file.onError.subscribe(error => console.log('Error!', error));

// play the file
file.play();

// pause the file
file.pause();

// get current playback position
file.getCurrentPosition().then((position) => {
  console.log(position);
});

// get file duration
let duration = file.getDuration();
console.log(duration);

// skip to 10 seconds (expects int value in ms)
file.seekTo(10000);

// stop playing the file
file.stop();

// release the native audio resource
// Platform Quirks:
// iOS simply create a new instance and the old one will be overwritten
// Android you must call release() to destroy instances of media when you are done
file.release();



// Recording to a file
const file: MediaObject = this.media.create('path/to/file.mp3');

file.startRecord();

file.stopRecord();

Some hints if you are using iOS and recording doesn't work: 1.) Try to use a absolute file path but remove beginning "file://". Then it looks like: /var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/AF438B8B-7724-4FBB-8E69-083463224FC4/tmp/my_file.m4a Example: this.media.create(this.file.tempDirectory.replace(/^file:\/\//, '') + 'my_file.m4a') 2.) If that's not working, too, create the file before using. Example:

import { Media, MediaObject } from '@awesome-cordova-plugins/media/ngx';
import { File } from '@awesome-cordova-plugins/file/ngx';

...

constructor(private media: Media, private file: File) { }

...

this.file.createFile(this.file.tempDirectory, 'my_file.m4a', true).then(() => {
  let file = this.media.create(this.file.tempDirectory.replace(/^file:\/\//, '') + 'my_file.m4a');
  file.startRecord();
  window.setTimeout(() => file.stopRecord(), 10000);
});

You can find the reasons here: https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic-native/issues/1452#issuecomment-299605906