What is the difference between AVAudioPlayer and MPMusicPlayerController?

Question

Hello everyone

It looks like both of them can play audio file. What is the difference between AVAudioPlayer and MPMusicPlayerController?

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Answer 1

Read the class reference

MPMusicPlayerController: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/mediaplayer/reference/MPMusicPlayerController_ClassReference/Reference/Reference.html

You use an MPMusicPlayerController object, or music player, to play media items from the iPod library.

AVAudioPlayer: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/AVFoundation/Reference/AVAudioPlayerClassReference/Reference/Reference.html

An instance of the AVAudioPlayer class, called an audio player, provides playback of audio data from a file or memory.

Apple recommends that you use this class for audio playback unless you are playing audio captured from a network stream or require very low I/O latency.