useSound - react-native-use-sound

🔊 A React Native Hook for playing sounds 🔊

react-native-use-sound is largely based on the work by @joshwcomeau use-sound

Installation

⚠ You must first install react-native-sound ⚠

npm i react-native-sound
cd ios && pod install

Then, our Hook can be added:

npm install react-native-use-sound

Examples

Basic Example

import useSound from "react-native-use-sound";
import { Button } from "react-native";

const MusicButton = () => {
  const coolMusic =
    "http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/codeskulptor-demos/DDR_assets/Kangaroo_MusiQue_-_The_Neverwritten_Role_Playing_Game.mp3";
  const [play, pause, stop, data] = useSound(coolMusic);

  const handlePlay = () => {
    if (data.isPlaying) pause();
    else play();
  };

  return (
  <>
    <Button
      title={data.isPlaying ? "Pause" : "Play"}
      onPress={handlePlay} 
    />
    <Button
      title={"Stop"}
      onPress={stop} 
    />
  </>
  );
};

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API Documentation

The useSound hook takes two arguments:

• A URL to the sound that it will load
• A config object (HookOptions)

It produces an array with four values:

• A function you can call to play the sound
• A function you can call to pause the sound
• A function you can call to stop the sound
• An object with additional data and controls (ExposedData)

HookOptions

When calling useSound, you can pass it a variety of options:

Name	Value
volume	number
interrupt	boolean
soundEnabled	boolean
timeRate	number
numberOfLoops	boolean

• volume is a number from 0 to 1, where 1 is full volume and 0 is comletely muted.
• interrupt specifies whether or not the sound should be able to "overlap" if the play function is called again before the sound has ended.
• soundEnabled allows you to pass a value (typically from context or redux or something) to mute all sounds. Note that this can be overridden in the PlayOptions, see below
• timeRate is the frequency (in milliseconds) at which the currentTime value will be updated. Default is 1000,
• numberOfLoops specifies the number of times you want the sound repeated. Note that you can use -1 to Loop indefinitely until stop() is called.

Data

The hook produces a tuple with 4 options, the play, pause, stop functions and an Data object:

const [play, pause, stop, data] = useSound("/meow.mp3");
//                        ^ What we're talking about

Name	Value
sound	Sound
seek	function ((sec: number) => void)
isPlaying	boolean
duration	number
currrentTime	number
loading	boolean

• sound is an escape hatch. It grants you access to the underlying Sound instance.
• seek is a function you can use to seek to a position in the sound.
• isPlaying lets you know whether this sound is currently playing or not. When the sound reaches the end, or it's interrupted with stop or paused, this value will flip back to false. You can use this to show some UI only while the sound is playing.
• duration is the length of the sample, in milliseconds.
• currentTime is the current time of the sample, in milliseconds. You can chose the rate at which this is updated by specifying timeRate in the hook options (see above).
• loading lets you know whether the current sample is loading.