AVFoundation not playing sound - ios

Question

I have always used audio toolbox to play my sounds, but users have saying there is no sound, this is because when you are on silent it doesnt play. I have tried many times to swap instead to av foundation but it never works for me. this is the code i am attempting to use now:
- (IBAction)soundbutton:(id)sender {
NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"EASPORTS" ofType:#"mp3"];
AVAudioPlayer * theAudio=[[AVAudioPlayer alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:path] error:NULL];
[theAudio play];}

Answer 1

Reason could be that in ARC your audio player is being released by ARC, therefore you need to make a strong reference of the AVAudioPlayer, you can do that by making the AVAudioPlayer as class level property.
here is how you do it, in your .h file like this
#property (strong, nonatomic) AVAudioPlayer *theAudio;
and in .m file synthesize it like this
#synthesize theAudio;
and finally your code would look like this
- (IBAction)soundbutton:(id)sender {
NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"EASPORTS" ofType:#"mp3"];
self.theAudio=[[AVAudioPlayer alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:path] error:nil];
[self.theAudio play];
}
check also if your delegate methods are responding something
- (void)audioPlayerDidFinishPlaying:(AVAudioPlayer *)player successfully:(BOOL)flag;
- (void)audioPlayerDecodeErrorDidOccur:(AVAudioPlayer *)player error:(NSError *)error;