SpriteKit playSoundFileNamed crash on iOS 8.3

Question

I'm seeing some small amounts of SpriteKit playSoundFileNamed crashes from my app's crash log. The crashes happen on iOS 8.3.

0 CoreFoundation __exceptionPreprocess  
1 libobjc.A.dylib objc_exception_throw
2 CoreFoundation -[NSException initWithCoder:]
3 SpriteKit +[SKPlaySound playSoundFileNamed:atPosition:waitForCompletion:]
4 SpriteKit +[SKAction(SKActions) playSoundFileNamed:waitForCompletion:]
...

And a few related crashes:

0 CoreFoundation __exceptionPreprocess  
1 libobjc.A.dylib objc_exception_throw
2 CoreFoundation -[NSException raise:format:]
3 SpriteKit +[SKPlaySound playSoundFileNamed:atPosition:waitForCompletion:]
4 SpriteKit +[SKAction(SKActions) playSoundFileNamed:waitForCompletion:]
...

Does anyone know what causes this crash and how to fix it? Should I wrap every calls to playSoundFileNamed: in a try-catch block?

Edited

More information:

I'm using Swift. Trying to play my own sounds and I'm seeing the crashes coming from different sounds. I'm also seeing a couple reports from iOS 8.2 so this crash might not be iOS 8.3 specific.

The lines that play the sound:

var sound = SKAction.playSoundFileNamed("Sound/ABC.mp3", waitForCompletion: false)
self.runAction(sound)

Answer 1

I experienced a similar issue a while back. The issue was that the variable could not be made quickly enough to play as I was creating the variable each time the user tapped on the screen. Try defining the action in didMoveToView, and seeing if you still get the issue. Hope that helps

Answer 2

Try this and let me know if its working.

var audioPlayer = AVAudioPlayer()

func playAudio() {
    // Set the sound file name & extension
    let alertSound = NSURL(fileURLWithPath: NSBundle.mainBundle().pathForResource("ABC", ofType: "mp3")!)


    // Preperation
    try! AVAudioSession.sharedInstance().setCategory(AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayback, withOptions: [])
    try! AVAudioSession.sharedInstance().setActive(true)

    // Play the sound
    do {
        try audioPlayer = AVAudioPlayer(contentsOfURL: alertSound)
        audioPlayer.prepareToPlay()
        audioPlayer.play()
    } catch {
        print("there is \(error)")
    }
}