As a longtime Plex user who uses it as my primary music app on iOS, it would be really great to be able to mix my music with audiobooks playing in another app. However, iOS prevents this. The only way around would be to host the music app and the audiobook app as separate instances in Audiobus or a different Inter-App Audio mixer and then mix to your heart’s content.
Currently, while Plexamp can’t do this, other streaming music library apps like Musicstreamer do. Plex’s pockets are way deeper and should be able to do this. It would add so much functionality for iOS and iPadOS users.
Maybe I’m missing something about your suggestion. You want to mix the audio output of multiple apps which play separate audio tracks in parallel? Like configuring which volume each should have?
Hi! Thanks for asking. Yes. In iOS, from all that I’ve seen and tried, you can only have one app at a time outputting audio. I believe there are a few funny exceptions to this where some apps play their audio kind of unbeknownst to iOS and get away with it. I think I used to have a white noise app that did that. Anyway, Audiobus is a long-running industry standard app for the music-making community that allows iOS audio source apps to be fed into it, processed through other apps with effects and then mixed and output as desired. So, yes: 2 audio sources simultaneously mixed together as desired. Hopefully, one would be Plex.
