Hey all, I have a selector that searches the mainBundle for all .aif files, and allows the user to select them. This works fine, but then I removed some of the files from the project and folder, yet they did not disappear. Is there any way to maybe recompile it or something because It's now plagued with sound files that I don't need.
Thanks!
- (void)loadPossibleSounds {
NSBundle *soundBundle = [NSBundle mainBundle];
possDrumSounds = [soundBundle pathsForResourcesOfType:#"aif" inDirectory:nil];
NSLog(#"PossDrumSounds: %#", possDrumSounds);
[possDrumSounds retain];
}
The above is the code that I use to get an array (possDrumSounds) full of all .aif file paths. Looking at it again, it may have to do with the fact that I said inDirectory:nil, but that shouldn't matter.
Try cleaning your target and re-building.
Interestingly, this has been resolved. It appears that for some reason xcode and the iphone simulator retain all of the resources in the bundle. (At least in my case). This was remedied when I tested it on the device which did not have all of the extra sounds.
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i'm sorry for my english.
i'm new in iphone development and happens to me a strange things.
I have a set of jpg images to show in a table view. When i test the app in iphone simulator everything is ok and work properly but when built and run the same code in iphone test device the same images aren't displayed.
Another strange behavior is that with a set of png images instead of jpg are shown perfectly in simulator like as in iphone test device.
Anyone can suggest me a solution?
I detect the name of image to load from a json file. This is the code that i use to show the image:
UIImageView *immaginePiadina = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame:immagineValueRect];
[immaginePiadina setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:[item objectForKey:#"immagine"]]];
where [item objectForKey:#"immagine"] is an element of my json file like this:
"nome": "66",
"immagine": "pianetapiadabufalavesuviani",
"prezzo": "€ 7,50",
"nomeingrediente": [
"bufala",
"vesuviani"
]
How you can see i refer to the image with only the name of the file and without the file extension. I did it in this way to show image retina, it's wrong?
I exclude that i wrote a different case sensitive name because the png set works properly.
thanks a lot!!
There are possibly two separate issues that need separation, here is how to solve your problem.
First write a method using the NSFileManager, that given a file path verifies a file exists and has a size greater than 0. Insert a call to this everywhere you fail to open an image. If you use "imageNamed" then get the path to the bundle and create the path. If this method fails to find an image, fix it.
Second, the image decoding is different for the simulator and the device - the simulator uses the full OSX libraries. So take one image that fails to open and move it somewhere. Open it in Preview and export it using the same name but with png+alpha format. Change your code to expect a png not a jpg, and retest. Make sure you still use the first method to insure the file is there.
Once you get one success you can try other options, like using Preview exported jpegs. The reason this should work is that all of these image formats permit a huge range of options all of which iOS does not support.
Given that the current format us the problem, you can script changes using the "sips" program, which is what Preview uses.
I solve my problem using the following code:
NSString* path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:[item objectForKey:#"immagine"] ofType:#"jpg"];
NSLog(#"%#",path);
UIImage* theImage = [[UIImage alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:path];
I don't know the reason but in this way i haven't any problem to display jpg in my iPhone test device. Maybe because NSBundle specify also the extension of the file.
Thanks #David-h that directed me in the right way to solve my problem.
Check the extensions of your images. If you write .PNG, in the simulator is Ok, but not in the device.
How do I get the current working directory's absolute path on the iPhone using Objective-C?
I'm afraid that you can't get the absolute path on device, at least with official SDK. Please make me correct if I'm wrong.
Not sure whether this works on iPhone, but it should.
char *buf = getwd();
NSString *cwd = [NSString stringWithCString:buf encoding:NSUnicodeStringEncoding];
free(buf);
You might need to fiddle with the right encoding...
EDIT: aaaehm, you might also just want to try NSFileManager's currentDirectoryPath method...
I'm using an AVAudioPlayer to play a mono AIFF file from my app's Documents directory.
On the simulator, [player play] returns YES and I hear the file playing. On the device the play method returns NO and nothing happens. I grabbed the file via the Organizer - it plays back fine on my Mac and seems to be well-formed. I realize the simulator can access codecs that aren't available on the iPhone, but that shouldn't matter in this case, should it?
I'm at a loss as to how to debug this. Any suggestions?
I asked this question on Apple's forum and someone there asked if I had activated an Audio Session. I hadn't, and doing so fixed my problem.
Make sure you do not use an absolute path to the audio file. When you move to device, the paths change. You need to get the path to the documents folder using the standard methods and then add the relative path to your audio file. That way you get a correct path regardless of the hardware or other changes.
Create a delegate to the audio player, and override -audioPlayerDecodeErrorDidOccur:error: to see if any error happens.
I've gotten to play a single sound in the iPhone app I've started, but I now desire to play multiple sounds based on a button. To create a separate set of .m and .h files for each audio sounds, and then including them all, doesn't seem the most efficient way to tackle this in terms of coding...then again, I'm just starting out with Cocoa and only just completed my first app ever.
Any help is appreciated. The key here is multiple sounds, each triggered by its own button or image. Thanks.
If the files are MP3 or AAC format, then you can only play one at a time. This is a limitation of core audio on the iPhone.
In terms of playing multiple sounds at once, that's easy, just create a new player instance for every one that you want to play (and remember to release them when you're done)
NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"dream" ofType:#"m4a"];
AVAudioPlayer* theAudio=[[AVAudioPlayer alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:path] error:NULL];
theAudio.delegate = self;
[theAudio play];
To convert an MP3 into something like IMA4 (which you can play more than one at once) you would run the following (in terminal, in leopard):
/usr/bin/afconvert -f caff -d ima4 sound.mp3 sound.caf
The above code is firmware 2.2 only, but you can do the same with the AudioQueue files if you want to support older firmwares (it's just a lot more complex, so I haven't listed the code here).
If you have access to the iPhone developer network, then there are a bunch of code samples that show you how to play audio.
All you need to do is make one class that has a function called
-(void)Play:(NSString*)sSoundFile {
// play sound file here
}
I don't have any direct experience with iPhone development, but in theory could you create a single large sound file with all your sounds in it? Each sound could be separated by just enough silence to be individually accessed by a time index. Of course, the downside is that you'd have to load the entire file into memory, unless you could figure out a way to load chunks in a random-access fashion...
#rustyshelf - does this work in the simulator? I'm using that code, and using #import but neither audioPlayerDidFinishPlaying nor audioPlayerDecodeErrorDidOccur ever get called. Very annoying to try to debug.
http://www.icodeblog.com/2009/05/04/iphone-game-programming-tutorial-part-4-basic-game-audio/
in this example in ios5 you have to put
CFURLRef soundurl=(__bridge CFURLRef)[NSURL fileURLWithPath:objstring];
in place of
CFURLRef soundurl=(CFURLRef)[NSURL fileURLWithPath:objstring];
Hardik Mamtora
I'm trying to play a sound file from an iPhone program.
Here's the code:
NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"play" ofType:#"caf"];
NSFileHandle *bodyf = [NSFileHandle fileHandleForReadingAtPath:path];
NSData *body = [bodyf availableData];
NSLog( #"length of play.caf %d",[body length] );
NSURL *url = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:path isDirectory:NO];
NSLog( [url description] );
NSLog( #"%d", AudioServicesCreateSystemSoundID((CFURLRef)url, &soundID) );
The first NSLog is to check that I have access to the file (I did), the second NSLog is to show the file URL, and the third NSLog returns -1500 "An unspecified error has occurred."
For the second NSLog, I get the following output:
file://localhost/Users/alan/Library/Application 敲慬楴敶瑓楲杮upport/iPhone蒠ꁻތĀ⾅獕牥⽳污湡䰯扩慲祲䄯灰楬慣楴湯匠灵潰瑲椯桐湯楓畭慬潴⽲獕牥䄯灰楬慣楴湯⽳䙂㕅㡂㤱䌭䐳ⴸ䐴䙃㠭㍃ⴷ䍁㈶㠵䙁㤴㈰䰯捯瑡䵥灡⽰汰祡挮晡imulator/User/Applications/BFE5B819-C3D8-4DCF-8C37-AC6258AF4902/LocateMe.app/play.caf
This is either due to my misunderstanding of the "description" method, or this contributes to the problem.
Any idea what is going wrong?
The first parameter to NSLog is a format string; you're passing [URL description] as the format string to the second use of NSLog. That's bad, because if the description of the URL contains any % characters then it will wind up printing random stuff from the stack.
Instead, write
NSLog(#"%#", URL);
You don't need to even use -description here; NSLog will invoke it for you automatically because %# means "an object," not "an NSString," and it's smart enough to do the right thing for you.
In addition, it seems that the iPhone simulator does not like to play (systemSound) sounds over 5 seconds in length. I had the same issue as out apps almost always play a start up systemSound.
One of the apps I was working on the simulator would not play the sound but the device would. Later I found that there is some strange limitation on the simulator and the way it handles sounds. I've filed a bug with Apple. Hopefully this will be address with the release of the iPhone SDK 3.0.
An update on this.
I got my keys to allow me to run my app on the device.
I found that my .caf file successfully played when the app ran on the device.
I then tried various alternatives.
A .wav file that is 60 seconds long failed to work on the simulator and the device.
A .wav file that is 5 seconds long would work on the simulator, but not on the device.
A .aiff file that is 5 seconds long works on the simulator and the device.
It would be good to know definitively what the simulator and the device are checking about the file when it is passed to AudioServicesCreateSystemSoundID
I tried the same with my application that plays sounds just fine. The sounds don’t play in the Simulator and when I try to NSLog the URL, I get the same garbage as You and EXC_BAD_ACCESS on the top of it. When I log the URL on the device, the URL is fine, but I get EXC_BAD_ACCESS nevertheless. When I drop the logging, sounds play and everything works. If somebody could explain this behaviour I’d be grateful. As for Your problem, I’d drop the logging and try the code on the device.
Use "AVAudioPlayer" class for playing .caf files