AVPlayer slow loading

Question

I\'m using AVPlayer to play mp3 files from a remote url. i\'m having some issues with the initial loading time of the mp3, it is very slow (around 5-8 sec).

Answer 1

For iOS 10.x or greater to reduce slow load time I set: avplayer.automaticallyWaitsToMinimizeStalling = false; and that seemed to fix it for me. This could have other consequences, but I haven't hit those yet.

I got the idea for it from: AVPlayer stops playing video after buffering