diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 27a8b32..6948574 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 MIT License
 
-Copyright (c) 2019-2020 Ryan Heise.
+Copyright (c) 2019-2020 Ryan Heise and the project contributors.
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
diff --git a/example/pubspec.lock b/example/pubspec.lock
index 87f7303..d8514c6 100644
--- a/example/pubspec.lock
+++ b/example/pubspec.lock
@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ packages:
   audio_session:
     dependency: "direct main"
     description:
-      path: "../../audio_session"
-      relative: true
-    source: path
+      name: audio_session
+      url: "https://pub.dartlang.org"
+    source: hosted
     version: "0.0.1"
   boolean_selector:
     dependency: transitive
diff --git a/example/pubspec.yaml b/example/pubspec.yaml
index 6414fd1..29a7f20 100644
--- a/example/pubspec.yaml
+++ b/example/pubspec.yaml
@@ -7,8 +7,7 @@ environment:
   flutter: ">=1.12.8 <2.0.0"
 
 dependencies:
-  audio_session:
-    path: ../../audio_session
+  audio_session: ^0.0.1
   flutter:
     sdk: flutter
 
diff --git a/lib/just_audio.dart b/lib/just_audio.dart
index 23e5373..6968878 100644
--- a/lib/just_audio.dart
+++ b/lib/just_audio.dart
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ class AudioPlayer {
                   case AudioInterruptionType.unknown:
                     if (playing) {
                       pause();
-                      // Although pause is asyncand sets _playInterrupted = false,
+                      // Although pause is async and sets _playInterrupted = false,
                       // this is done in the sync portion.
                       _playInterrupted = true;
                     }
@@ -532,12 +532,17 @@ class AudioPlayer {
   /// [stop] playback on completion, you can call either method as soon as
   /// [processingState] becomes [ProcessingState.completed] by listening to
   /// [processingStateStream].
+  ///
+  /// This method activates the audio session before playback, and will do
+  /// nothing if activation of the audio session fails for any reason.
   Future<void> play() async {
     if (playing) return;
     _playInterrupted = false;
-    _playingSubject.add(true);
-    await AudioSession.ensurePrepared(ensureActive: true);
-    await _invokeMethod('play');
+    final audioSession = await AudioSession.instance;
+    if (await audioSession.setActive(true)) {
+      _playingSubject.add(true);
+      await _invokeMethod('play');
+    }
   }
 
   /// Pauses the currently playing media. This method does nothing if
diff --git a/pubspec.lock b/pubspec.lock
index d83cb24..c9697d2 100644
--- a/pubspec.lock
+++ b/pubspec.lock
@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ packages:
   audio_session:
     dependency: "direct main"
     description:
-      path: "../audio_session"
-      relative: true
-    source: path
+      name: audio_session
+      url: "https://pub.dartlang.org"
+    source: hosted
     version: "0.0.1"
   boolean_selector:
     dependency: transitive
diff --git a/pubspec.yaml b/pubspec.yaml
index 32b9ed2..4b35913 100644
--- a/pubspec.yaml
+++ b/pubspec.yaml
@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@ environment:
   flutter: ">=1.12.8 <2.0.0"
 
 dependencies:
-  audio_session:
-    path: ../audio_session
+  audio_session: ^0.0.1
   rxdart: ^0.24.1
   path: ^1.6.4
   path_provider: ^1.6.10