A Quick(ish) Way to Concatenate Audio in Swift

It feels like joining two audio files in iOS should be one or two lines of code.

It isn’t.

My latest attempt uses AVMutableCompositions to join the audio segments and AVAssetExportSession to export it. I wrote a little extension to make it a little cleaner

The basic implementation looks like this:

let composition = AVMutableComposition()
let compositionAudioTrack = composition.addMutableTrack(withMediaType: AVMediaTypeAudio, preferredTrackID: kCMPersistentTrackID_Invalid)

compositionAudioTrack.append(url: audioUrl1)
compositionAudioTrack.append(url: audioUrl2)

if let assetExport = AVAssetExportSession(asset: composition, presetName: AVAssetExportPresetPassthrough) {
    assetExport.outputFileType = AVFileTypeWAVE
    assetExport.outputURL = recordingUrl
    assetExport.exportAsynchronously(completionHandler: {})
}

And this is what the extension on AVMutableCompositionTrack looks like:

extension AVMutableCompositionTrack {
    func append(url: URL) {
        let newAsset = AVURLAsset(url: url)
        let range = CMTimeRangeMake(kCMTimeZero, newAsset.duration)
        let end = timeRange.end
        print(end)
        if let track = newAsset.tracks(withMediaType: AVMediaTypeAudio).first {
            try! insertTimeRange(range, of: track, at: end)
        }
        
    }
}