mp3 audio playback not working with Cordova 3.5 on iOS

Question

Recently I upgraded our iOS Project from Cordova 3.3 to 3.5.

mp3 files (that were previously downloaded into the iOS standard documents folder) will not play using the

Answer 1

The only thing that worked for me with latest cordova 3.5 version is there: http://www.raymondcamden.com/2014/06/23/Cordova-Media-API-Example

Make sure to install this plugin: cordova plugin add https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cordova-plugin-device.git

Answer 2

The prefix documents ended working for me to take me to a persistent storage location within the app. In the source for the iOS plug-in it looks like you can use these prefixes:

"documents://"
"http://"
"https://"
"cdvfile://"

Answer 3

I haven't played around with media on iOS recently but if I look at the docs it states:

var myMedia = new Media("audio/beer.mp3")
myMedia.play()  
// first looks for file in www/audio/beer.mp3 then in 
<application>/documents/tmp/audio/beer.mp3

So, if I were you I'd try a relative path of:

"../Downloads/testsound.mp3"

which should change:

<application>/documents/tmp/../Downloads/testsound.mp3

into just:

<application>/documents/Downloads/testsound.mp3