AVPlayer not playing audio - iOS 9, Objective - C

Question

I am trying to play audio from a URL in my app. Everything happens as expected in iOS 8 (simulator and physical devices). For iOS 9, it works in simulator but on device, the aud

Answer 1

For anyone with this same issue, here is the Swift solution.

try! AVAudioSession.sharedInstance().setCategory(AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayback, with: [])

And some documentation

Answer 2

After doing various trial and error tactics for over 5 days, I finally figured out that my problem was with the mute switch of the phone. When it is on mute, the audio does't play! So, I added the following line of code to specify my category as playback and now it plays even when my device switch is on mute

[[AVAudioSession sharedInstance] setCategory:AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayback error:nil];

Thank you!