iPhone: AVAudioPlayer unsupported file type

Question

My app downloads an mp3 from our server and plays it back to the user. The file is 64 kbps (which is well within the acceptable range for iPhone if I understand correctly).

Answer 1

At long last i have found a solution to this problem! Instead of initializing the audio player with the NSData object, I saved the file to the Documents folder, and then initialized the player with the file URL

//download file and play from disk
NSData *audioData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:someURL];
NSString *docDirPath = [NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES) objectAtIndex:0];
NSString *filePath = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/%@.mp3", docDirPath , fileName];
[audioData writeToFile:filePath atomically:YES];

NSError *error;
NSURL *fileURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:filePath];
player = [[AVAudioPlayer alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:fileURL error:&error];
if (player == nil) {
    NSLog(@"AudioPlayer did not load properly: %@", [error description]);
} else {
    [player play];
}

When the app is done with the file, it can be deleted. Hope that his helps more than just me!