Playing Background music while using VLC to play a Video Stream

[PlasmaUK]

In an app I am writing using VLCKit as the video component I would like to be able to listen to background music, like from Apple Music / Amazon Music etc etc while my App displays a streamed video. Is there an option I can send to the player when initialising it to allow this?

I have tried a couple of things, like when my app launches I tell AVFramework that I want to play ambient sounds..

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do { try AVAudioSession.sharedInstance().setCategory(AVAudioSession.Category.ambient) try AVAudioSession.sharedInstance().setActive(true) } catch let error as NSError { print(error) }

Currently whenever I start a stream with VLC it pauses the music playing in the background, even if I have the stream volume set to 0.
When I stop the VLC Stream the music begins to play again, does anyone know if this is possible? If not might it be considered as a new feature?

Thanks in advance for any help!