No, because it doesn’t work on streams — only downloaded files. (This is why in some podcast apps offering silence-skipping features, they don’t actually skip any silences when streaming.) I use the lower-level AudioFile and AudioConverter APIs to decode audio streams.

Curious if you have any analytics to see what percentage of users still stream podcasts instead of downloading them?

Are you using a custom INPlayMediaIntent to provide Shortcuts to resume audio playback and enable/disable SmartSpeed?

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Pretty sure that AVAssetReader + AVAssetResourseLoaderDelegate would let you do streaming (I.e. BYOD). Not that it would necessarily be better than CoreAudio APIs, but it should work.

It’s how I implemented “video in a <image>” for WebKit:

Thanks so much for the reply! I am a noob self taught iOS dev. Digging through these frameworks boggles my brain 🤯. Nice to have a direction where to look for the solution!! Thanks again 🥳🙏