Why does playing a .wav using AVAudioPlayer hang my iPhone simulator?

Question

I'm trying to get a simple button to play a sound:

-(IBAction)myButton:(id)sender {
    NSString *audioFilePath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"whistle" ofType:@"wav"];
    AVAudioPlayer *audioPlayer = [[AVAudioPlayer alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:audioFilePath] error:NULL];  
    [audioPlayer play];     
}

Using the debugger, the call to 'play' never returns. No sound is played either. The button stays in the highlighted state until I hit the home button to exit the app.

From the about menu of the simulator I'm using 'Version 2.2 (77.4.9)'.

-Bill

Answer 1

Could it be a bad sound file? What happens if instead of -play you call -prepareToPlay?

Answer 2

I don't know if it's the same problem, but AVAudioPlayer was causing my 2.2.x simulator to crash, too. In my case it turns out a plugin inside /Library/QuickTime/ (specifically, DivX Decoder.component) was messing with the simluator. I just moved the file temporarily to my desktop, and then the simulator started working again for me.