Streaming mp3 audio with AVPlayer

Question

I\'m hearing some conflicting reports about this. What I\'m trying to do is stream an mp3 file from a URL. I\'ve done hours of research, but I cannot find any good guides on

Answer 1

In addition to Sumit Mundra's answer, which helped me a lot, I found that this technique doesn't actually stream MP3 files from a remote server. When I implemented this, the file downloaded synchronously, blocking my UI, before playing. The way to properly stream the MP3 that I found worked very well was to point to an M3U file. This is just a text file with an .m3u extension which contains a link to the original MP3. Point Sumit's code at that file instead, and you have a stream that starts playing immediately.

This is the place I found that information: http://www.soundabout.net/streammp3.htm