How can I allow background music to continue playing while my app still plays its sounds while using Swift

Question

I created an app and I am attempting to allow the user to continue to listen to their music while playing my game, but whenever they hit \"play\" and the ingame sounds occur

Answer 1

This is how I do it in Swift 3.0

var songPlayer : AVAudioPlayer?         

func SetUpSound() {


        if let path = Bundle.main.path(forResource: "TestSound", ofType: "wav") {
            let filePath = NSURL(fileURLWithPath:path)
            songPlayer = try! AVAudioPlayer.init(contentsOf: filePath as URL)
            songPlayer?.numberOfLoops = -1 //logic for infinite loop
            songPlayer?.prepareToPlay()
            songPlayer?.play()
        }

        let audioSession = AVAudioSession.sharedInstance()
        try!audioSession.setCategory(AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayback, with: AVAudioSessionCategoryOptions.duckOthers) //Causes audio from other sessions to be ducked (reduced in volume) while audio from this session plays  
}

You can see more of AVAudioSessionCategoryOptions here: https://developer.apple.com/reference/avfoundation/avaudiosessioncategoryoptions