iOS Stop Audio Playback At Certain Time (AVAudioPlayer End Time)

Question

I'm wanting to play just part of an audio file. This audio file contains 232 spoken words, I have a dictionary that contains the start time of each word. So I have the start and stop times I just can't find a way to stop at a given time or play the file for a certain duration. Any advice and/or sample code to help me would be much appreciated, thanks Jason.

So I've found a solution, there's a problem with how I get endTime but I sure I can fix it.

//Prepare to play
[audioPlayer prepareToPlay];

//Get current time from the array using selected word
audioPlayer.currentTime = [[wordsDict objectForKey:selectedWord] floatValue]; 

//Find end time  - this is a little messy for now
int currentIndex = 0;
int count = 0;

for (NSString* item in wordsKeys) {
    if ([item isEqualToString: selectedWord]) {
        currentIndex = count+1;
    }
    count++;
}

//Store found end time
endTime  = [[wordsDict objectForKey:[wordsKeys objectAtIndex:currentIndex]] floatValue];

//Start Timer
NSTimer * myAudioTimer = [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:0.1
                                                             target:self
                                                           selector:@selector(checkCurrentTime)
                                                           userInfo:nil
                                                            repeats:YES]
//Now play audio
[audioPlayer play];



//Stop at endTime
- (void) checkCurrentTime {
if(audioPlayer.playing && audioPlayer.currentTime >= endTime)
    [audioPlayer stop];
}

Answer 1

This should do what you want. you don't need a repeating timer that's thrashing the player.

NSString *myAudioFileInBundle = @"words.mp3";
NSTimeInterval wordStartsAt = 1.8;
NSTimeInterval wordEndsAt = 6.5;
NSString *filePath = [[[NSBundle mainBundle] bundlePath] stringByAppendingPathComponent:myAudioFileInBundle];
NSURL *myFileURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:filePath];
AVAudioPlayer *myPlayer = [[AVAudioPlayer alloc]initWithContentsOfURL:myFileURL error:nil];
if (myPlayer) 
{
    [myPlayer setCurrentTime:wordStartsAt];
    [myPlayer prepareToPlay];
    [myPlayer play];
    [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:wordEndsAt-wordStartsAt target:myPlayer.autorelease selector:@selector(stop) userInfo:nil repeats:NO];

}

Answer 2

Try using AVPlayer instead and make use of

addBoundaryTimeObserverForTimes:queue:usingBlock:

What it does: Requests invocation of a block when specified times are traversed during normal playback.

https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documentation/AVFoundation/Reference/AVPlayer_Class/index.html#//apple_ref/occ/instm/AVPlayer/addBoundaryTimeObserverForTimes:queue:usingBlock: