Play a short sound in iOS

Question

I guess I could use AVAudioPlayer to play a sound, however, what I need is to just play a short sound and I don\'t need any loops or fine-grained control over t

Answer 1

Heres a quick clean method you can copy in and use in your app:

-(BOOL) playSoundFXnamed: (NSString*) vSFXName Loop: (BOOL) vLoop
{
    NSError *error;

    NSBundle* bundle = [NSBundle mainBundle];

    NSString* bundleDirectory = (NSString*)[bundle bundlePath];

    NSURL *url = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:[bundleDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:vSFXName]];

    AVAudioPlayer *audioPlayer = [[AVAudioPlayer alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:url error:&error];

    if(vLoop)
        audioPlayer.numberOfLoops = -1;
    else
        audioPlayer.numberOfLoops = 0;

    BOOL success = YES;

    if (audioPlayer == nil)
    {
        success = NO;
    }
    else
    {
        success = [audioPlayer play];
    }
    return success;
}

Then to use just:

[self playSoundFXnamed:@"someAudio.mp3" Loop: NO];

If you're gonna loop then you need to take your AVAudioPlayer *audioPlayer out into your class to be able to stop the sound.. Which you dont if you just want a short sound.

Use ARC... and I never did do anything with the NSError, so use it if ya like...