AVPlayer is not playing audio

Question

I am trying to play a url audio file picked with MPMediaPickerController and attach an observer on the player object. I don\'t know why the player is n

Answer 1

You should declare AVPlayer as a global variable inside your class/struct. So, remove player from addPeriodicTimeObserver function and declare globally.

The reason behind this is:

Local variables (variables declared inside the function) get deallocated once the function returns; In this case, player gets deallocated before even playing.

Instance variables (variables declared inside the class scope) get deallocated once the class instance get deallocated (unless there is a retain cycle).

_{In case of using a real device for testing, make sure that its not in silent mode}