Playing back audio using AVAudioPlayer iOS 7

Question

I\'m struggling to follow Apple\'s documentation regarding playing back a small .wav file using the AVAudioPlayer class. I\'m also not sure what t

Answer 1

What I do is create an entire miniature class just for this purpose. That way I have an object that I can retain and which itself retains the audio player.

- (void) play: (NSString*) path {
    NSURL *fileURL = [[NSURL alloc] initFileURLWithPath: path];
    NSError* err = nil;
    AVAudioPlayer *newPlayer =
        [[AVAudioPlayer alloc] initWithContentsOfURL: fileURL error: &err];
    // error-checking omitted
    self.player = newPlayer; // retain policy
    [self.player prepareToPlay];
    [self.player setDelegate: self];
    [self.player play];
}