play audio from internet using AVAudioPlayer

Question

I am implementing AVAudioPlayer to play audio and it works perfectly well while playing files locally stored in the PC.

But when i give the url of some audio file over the internet, it fails sadly. Here's what the code looks like:

NSString *url = [[NSString alloc] init];  
url = @"http://files.website.net/audio/files/audioFile.mp3";  
NSURL *fileURL = [[NSURL alloc] initWithString: url];  
AVAudioPlayer *newPlayer =[[AVAudioPlayer alloc] initWithContentsOfURL: fileURL error: nil];

Could anybody please point out the problem and what could be done?
Thanks!

Answer 1

Use AVPlayer to stream audio/video based on http url's. It will work fine. AVAudioPlayer is for local files. Here's the code

NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:url];    
self.avAsset = [AVURLAsset URLAssetWithURL:url options:nil];    
self.playerItem = [AVPlayerItem playerItemWithAsset:avAsset];    
self.audioPlayer = [AVPlayer playerWithPlayerItem:playerItem];    
[self.audioPlayer play];

Answer 2

This is what the Apple docs say:

The AVAudioPlayer class does not provide support for streaming audio based on HTTP URL's. The URL used with initWithContentsOfURL: must be a File URL (file://). That is, a local path.

Answer 3

I tried other method initWithData on AVAudioPlayer instead of initWithContentsOfURL. First try to get MP3 file into NSData and then play this data.

Look at my code here.