Using AudioFileOpenUrl to play a remotely hosted audio file

Question

I was playing around with the iPhone SDK and I wanted to write a trivial app (UIView with UIButton, press button, play file) that played a remotely hosted mp3 file. It seems like this should be simple:
NSString *filepath = @"http://www.server.com/legal.mp3";
CFURLRef audioFileURL = CFURLCreateWithString(NULL, (CFStringRef) filepath, NULL);
AudioFileID audioFile;
if (noErr != AudioFileOpenURL(audioFileURL, fsRdPerm, 0, nil)) {
NSLog(@"Error - : could not open audio file. Path given was: %@", audioFileURL);
Why doesn't this work? What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

QuickTimeKirk wrote:
Very difficult request because the Apple TV can only play one file at a time. It doesn't have a "loop" feature.
You could use QuickTime Player Pro to "join" the audio files into one file. The hard part would be adding the five minute video chunks via copy/paste as each would be added as a new "video" track. QuickTime .mov files can have up to 99 "tracks" and the .mov container is supported by Apple TV.
So this new file would have a new video track (actually just a copy of the original) that played up to 98 times. A five minute source video would end up being a bit over 8 hours in duration.
The 98 track video could be "flattened" into one video track via export. The same for the audio track movie.
Other options:
Set the Quicktime Loop flag in the movie inspector properties.
Make a video playlist, adding the file to the playlist lots of times - make sure playlists are enabled in Settings for video not just music.