iPhone (SDK 2.2): adusting playback volume while NOT actively playing music w/ AVFoundation?

Question

So I have an app which plays many short sound clips. I need to know when the sounds are finished playing, and I need to use mp3s, so I\'m using AVFoundation for the sound playb

Answer 1

Turns out this can be accomplished by allocating an AVAudioPlayer with any valid sound file and calling the prepareToPlay method, without ever calling the play method.

Works perfectly.