How to play mp3 audio from URL in ios swift

Question

I am getting mp3 url as a response of api calling. I want to play that audio, so how can i do that? (ios swift)

here is my response

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Answer 1

Since AVPlayer is very limited (for example you cannot change url there without regenerate whole AVPlayer I think you should use AVQueuePlayer:

From the docs:

AVQueuePlayer is a subclass of AVPlayer used to play a number of items in sequence. Using this class you can create and manage a queue of player items comprised of local or progressively downloaded file-based media, such as QuickTime movies or MP3 audio files, as well as media served using HTTP Live Streaming.

So in Swift 3 it will work like this:

lazy var playerQueue : AVQueuePlayer = {
    return AVQueuePlayer()
}()

...

func playTrackOrPlaylist{
    if let url = track.streamURL() { //this is an URL fetch from somewhere. In this if you make sure that URL is valid
        let playerItem = AVPlayerItem.init(url: url)
        self.playerQueue.insert(playerItem, after: nil)
        self.playerQueue.play()
    }
}