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Reputation: 22939

Sound does only work on Device but not in Simulator

I am playing some short sounds on my iPad like so: Play a short sound in iOS

I am using a caf file which I can successfully play from the Finder. Now I went through quite a bit of a hassle trying to achieve the playback of the sound and I am curious what might be the problems which I don't seem to understand:

The best option currently seems to be Option 3 because it works on both the Simulator and the iPad, but because I need to pre-initialize the Player I would need an AVAudioPlayer instance for every different sound that I want to play, which does not seem to be very memory-wise...

Is there something that I am missing and is it possible to play sounds on both platforms using the AudioToolbox framework (Option 1 & Option 2)

Upvotes: 2

Views: 790

Answers (1)

Nick Lockwood
Nick Lockwood

Reputation: 40995

I wrote a library to simplify all this. It wraps AVAudioPlayer, and works fine on both the device and simulator.

https://github.com/nicklockwood/SoundManager

The code is fairly straightforward, although I do some semi-clever stuff to initialise the audio player. If you don't want to use the library you can just copy the code.

A word of warning though - the simulator throws some odd exceptions internally whenever you use AVAudioPlayer. They don't affect the app at all, but if you have enabled break-on-exceptions in Xcode then the app will drop into the debugger a few times during startup and you'll have to manually resume, which may freak you out if you're not expecting it.

Upvotes: 3

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