AVPlayer doesn't play sound on iOS Simulator

Question

I want to play music from URL with an AVPlayer on the iOS Simulator, but it doesn't work :

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath{

    Track *selectedTrack = self.tracksByAlbum[indexPath.row];

    NSLog(selectedTrack.preview);

    NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:[selectedTrack.preview stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];

    AVPlayer *player = [[AVPlayer alloc] initWithURL:url];

    if (!player) {
        NSLog(@"Error");
    }

    [player play];
}

The url is :

http://cdn-preview-6.deezer.com/stream/6d180c6b61078f437b04ec21bbe0fb76-3.mp3

I read that I have to enable user interface sounds effects on OS X, but it doesn't change anything...

Answer 1

If you're using ARC, you'll need to retain the AVAudioPlayer as it sets to nil automatically, which would be a likely reason for no sound. In your header file if you could make sure your self.player's property is set up like this,

@property (strong, nonatomic) AVPlayer *player;

from within your didSelectRowAtIndexPath change the AVPlayer code to this

self.player = [[AVPlayer alloc] initWithURL:url];

if (!self.player) {
    NSLog(@"Error");
}

[self.player play];

I hope this helps