iOS SDK : playing music on the background and switching views

Question

I am trying to play music in my application. The music works fine but after switching viewControllers and returning to the main menu, my music plays again! It means several identical sounds play together! How can I solve this? Here is my code :

- (void)viewDidLoad {

    NSString *music = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"1music" ofType:@"mp3"];
    myMusic = [[AVAudioPlayer alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:music] error:NULL];
    myMusic.delegate = self;
    myMusic.numberOfLoops = -1; 
    [myMusic play];
}


- (IBAction) scoreView {

    ScoreViewController *scoreView = [[ScoreViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"ScoreViewController" bundle:nil];
    [UIView beginAnimations:nil context:NULL];
    [UIView setAnimationDuration:1];
    [UIView setAnimationTransition:UIViewAnimationTransitionCurlDown forView:self.view cache:YES];
    [self.view addSubview: scoreView.view];
    [UIView commitAnimations];
}

EDITED CODE :

    - (id)initWithNibName:(NSString *)nibNameOrNil bundle:(NSBundle *)nibBundleOrNil {
        if ((self = [super initWithNibName:nibNameOrNil bundle:nibBundleOrNil])) {

            NSString * musicSonati = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"music" ofType:@"mp3"];
            myMusic = [[AVAudioPlayer alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:musicSonati] error:NULL];
            myMusic.delegate = self;
            myMusic.numberOfLoops = -1;
            [myMusic play];

        }
        return self;
    }

//toggle button
- (IBAction)MusicPlaying:(id)sender {

    if ((isPlay = !isPlay))
    {

        UIImage *buttonImageNormal = [UIImage imageNamed:@"play.png"]; 
        UIImage *stretchableButtonImageNormal = [buttonImageNormal  stretchableImageWithLeftCapWidth:0 topCapHeight:0]; 
        [MusicButton setBackgroundImage:stretchableButtonImageNormal forState:UIControlStateNormal]; 
        [myMusic pause];



    }else {

        UIImage *buttonImageNormal = [UIImage imageNamed:@"pause.png"]; 
        UIImage *stretchableButtonImageNormal = [buttonImageNormal  stretchableImageWithLeftCapWidth:0 topCapHeight:0]; 
        [MusicButton setBackgroundImage:stretchableButtonImageNormal forState:UIControlStateNormal]; 
        NSLog(@"Music play");
        [myMusic play];

    } 

}

Answer 1

If you have audio to play on multiple places then one simple way to achieve this is declare AVAudioPlayer instance in delegate with property synthesized.If you want to play this anywhere do this:-

MyAppDelegate *app_delegate = (MyAppDelegate *)[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate];


if(app_delegate.audioPlayer)
{
    [app_delegate.audioPlayer release];
    app_delegate.audioPlayer = nil;
}
app_delegate.audioPlayer = [[AVAudioPlayer alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:url error:nil];     

and if you want to stop sound do this:-

if(app_delegate.audioPlayer)
{
    if([app_delegate.audioPlayer isPlaying])
    {
        [app_delegate.audioPlayer stop];
        [app_delegate.audioPlayer setCurrentTime:0];
    }
}

and to play new sound file release and nil same player if already allocated or alloc it again with new sound file url.