How to play music outside the app (Android)? (AudioSource)

[skunight1]

I’m making a music app with Unity, I’m using AudioSource and it won’t play music in the background on Android
is there a way to make AudioSource play music in the background on android device?

[Joe-Censored]

I believe this doesn’t work because when your application loses focus the operating system pauses it. Here’s a relevant thread. There is a suggestion in there that you can try making your application a service instead. Not sure what that really entails.

Application.runInBackground is not working on Android

I have both the Run In Background field of Player settings checked, and I am setting Application.runInBackground to true in code, and when I minimize the game by pressing the Home button, it does not continue running in the background. I remember this working at one point, but I can’t remember when it stopped working for me. I’m running this on a HTC Droid Incredible, if that matters. Am I missing something on how this is supposed to work?