how can i upload audio file to server in iphone application?

Question

NSString *urlString1 = @"http://www.php.eminosoft.com/123singles/upload.php";

NSMutableURLRequest *request = [[[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] init] autorelease];
[request setURL:[NSURL URLWithString:urlString1]];
[request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];

NSString *boundary = [NSString stringWithString:@"---------------------------14737809831466499882746641449"];
NSString *contentType = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"multipart/form-data; boundary=%@",boundary];
[request addValue:contentType forHTTPHeaderField: @"Content-Type"]; 

 NSMutableData *body = [NSMutableData data];
[body appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"\r\n--%@\r\n",boundary] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];    
[body appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"uploadedfile\"; filename=\"song.mp3\"\r\n"] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];

[body appendData:[[NSString stringWithString:@"Content-Type:application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n"] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];

[body appendData:[NSString stringWithString:secondString]];

[body appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"\r\n--%@\r\n",boundary] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];    

[body appendData:[[NSString stringWithString:@"Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"username\"\r\n\r\n"] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
[body appendData:[[NSString stringWithString:@"demo"] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]]; 


[body appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"\r\n--%@\r\n",boundary] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];    

[body appendData:[[NSString stringWithString:@"Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"type\"\r\n\r\n"] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
[body appendData:[[NSString stringWithString:@"5"] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]]; 


[body appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"\r\n--%@--\r\n",boundary] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];

[request setHTTPBody:body];


NSData *returnData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request returningResponse:nil error:nil];
NSString *returnString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:returnData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

I am getting response like:

"file uploaded successfully"

but the problem is the file content size is in bytes, the audio file is not support to play.

Please help to me, How to upload a audio file to server?

Answer 1

You can try to send the audio file using FTP as the audio file is big in size and hence will take long time to get uploaded on server. FTP reduces that time period. Hope that helps.

Answer 2

I am using ASIHTTPRequest to upload an audio file like below,

NSURL *audiourl = [NSURL URLWithString:@"Your Url"];
ASIFormDataRequest *request = [ASIFormDataRequest requestWithURL:audiourl];
NSData *postData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:SoundPath];
//SoundPath is your audio url path of NSDocumentDirectory.
[request addData:postData withFileName:@"myAudio.caf" andContentType:@"audio/caf" forKey:@"company_audio"];
[request setDelegate:self];
[request startSynchronous];

This way you can easily upload audio file on server.