Audio in XCode 5 does not play - ios

Question

I am relatively new to coding, and I was trying to make my own game in XCode. I do not have a developer's license yet, so I don't think I can put the game on my phone to try it out. I found several different ways to play sounds, and I wanted to put a 30 second song I made in garageband in the background to see how it works. I tried it with a .mp3 file, but that did not work. I found more resources on how to put a .wav file in, so I converted it and tried with that. I followed several different tutorials and instructions exactly, but none of them worked. Finally I ended up doing it like this and trying to run it, but it did not play in the simulator. I have tried unchecking and checking the Play User Interface Sound Effects button in System Preferences like people said, but it did not work. I used AudioToolbox framework. Here is my code for the music:
.h
#import <AudioToolbox/AudioToolbox.h>
SystemSoundID BackgroundMusicID;
.m (I did not #import anything into the .m, but I tried it) The file name for the music is "BackgroundMusic.wav" exactly.
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
NSURL *BackgroundMusicURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"BackgroundMusic" ofType:#"wav"]];
AudioServicesCreateSystemSoundID((__bridge CFURLRef)BackgroundMusicURL, &BackgroundMusicID);
AudioServicesPlaySystemSound(BackgroundMusicID);
}
Thank you for any help! If you have any ideas as to why it won't play, or if it is just a problem with the simulator (I saw other people saying that, but none of their fixes worked unless I did something wrong). I would like the song to play as soon as the game loads up, but I have tried putting AudioServicesPlaySystemSound(BackgroundMusicID); under a button and under touchesbegan. Again, any help is appreciated!

Answer 1

Your code looks fine. But try the following:
NSString *BackgroundMusicURL = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"BackgroundMusic" ofType:#"wav"];
AudioServicesCreateSystemSoundID((CFURLRef)[NSURL fileURLWithPath:BackgroundMusicURL], &soundID);
AudioServicesPlaySystemSound(BackgroundMusicID);
Another thing is:
Don't try creating a clip that is exactly 30 seconds in length, instead try it first with 25-second or a 28-second clip.
And if that still does't work, please provide more code specifically where your dispose your sound and if you ave animation code, please post those as well.

Answer 2

Try changing the NSURL to use: URLForResource: withExtension: instead of fileURLWithPath:
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
NSURL *BackgroundMusicURL = [[NSBundle mainBundle] URLForResource:#"BackgroundMusic"
withExtension:#"wav"];
AudioServicesCreateSystemSoundID((__bridge CFURLRef)BackgroundMusicURL, &BackgroundMusicID);
AudioServicesPlaySystemSound(BackgroundMusicID);
}