IOS 8 Swift AVAudioPlayer play remote audio (wowza server)

Question

I am not an IOS programmer but I need a simple app to play an audio stream from a wowza server. Here is my code, I get no errors but also no audio. Any guidances or help?

    import UIKit
    import AVFoundation

    class ViewController: UIViewController {

         var player = AVAudioPlayer()

        override func viewDidLoad() {
            super.viewDidLoad()

            var fileURL: NSURL = NSURL(string: "http://url----.com/playlist.m3u8")

            var error:NSError?
            player = AVAudioPlayer(contentsOfURL: fileURL, error: &error)

            if player.prepareToPlay() && player.play(){
                println("yes")
            } else {
                println("no")
            }
        }

Answer 1

This worked for me:

var player = AVPlayer()

func configureView() {

    let url = "http://stream.your.url.com"
    let playerItem = AVPlayerItem( URL:NSURL( string:url ) )
    player = AVPlayer(playerItem:playerItem)
    player.rate = 1.0;
    player.play()

}

Answer 2

In Swift 2.0 and iOS 9

do {
    let url = "http://yourdomain.com/file.mp3"
    let fileURL = NSURL(string:url)
    let soundData = NSData(contentsOfURL:fileURL!)
    self.audioPlayer = try AVAudioPlayer(data: soundData!)
    audioPlayer.prepareToPlay()
    audioPlayer.volume = 1.0
    audioPlayer.delegate = self
    audioPlayer.play()
} catch {
    print("Error getting the audio file")
}

Answer 3

This anwser helped me: AVAudioPlayer with external URL to *.m4p

I had to convert thr URL to NSData:

func musicFromURL(streamURL: String) {
    guard let fileURL = URL(string:streamURL) else { return  }
    do {
        let soundData = try Data(contentsOf: fileURL)
        self.audioPlayer = try AVAudioPlayer(data: soundData)
        guard let audioPlayer = audioPlayer else { return }
        audioPlayer.prepareToPlay()
        audioPlayer.volume = 1.0
        audioPlayer.play()
    } catch {
        print(error)
    }
}

Answer 4

Please keep in mind since iOS 9: App Transport Security (ATS) configured?

<key>NSAppTransportSecurity</key>
<dict>
   <key>NSExceptionDomains</key>
   <dict>
      <key>yourserver.com</key>
      <dict>
         <!--Include to allow subdomains-->
         <key>NSIncludesSubdomains</key>
         <true/>
         <!--Include to allow HTTP requests-->
         <key>NSTemporaryExceptionAllowsInsecureHTTPLoads</key>
         <true/>
         <!--Include to specify minimum TLS version-->
         <key>NSTemporaryExceptionMinimumTLSVersion</key>
         <string>TLSv1.1</string>
      </dict>
   </dict>
</dict>

Swift 2:

let url = "http://yourserver.com/source.mp3"
    let playerItem = AVPlayerItem(URL:NSURL(string:url)!)
    audio = AVPlayer(playerItem:playerItem)
    audio.rate = 1.0;
    audio.play()