IOS: (not) playing sound from local file system - Error #2032

[Guest]

Dear all,

I am working on an app where I want to (among others) play sound files from the local file system.

I have added a few mp3 files into my .ipa file.

With a small file browser in my app I can select any one of them which returns me a File object.

I then use this File object to do a URLRequest to load the sound:

var req:URLRequest = new URLRequest(file.nativePath);

sound = new Sound();

sound.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, soundLoadError);
sound.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, soundLoaded);
sound.load(req);

It works in flash, but fails on the iPAD. Everytime I try to load, I get a IOErrorEvent with error code Error #2032

When I replace new URLRequest(file.nativePath) with URLRequest("http://.../testfile.mp3"), everything works fine!

Any help appreciated.

Is this a matter of Security settings? Can I change those?

Something to do with Sandboxing (whatever that is)?

or something to do with cross-domain access?

I have been looking around for days now and any help would be appreciated!

I am using Flash CS5.5 & AIR 2.7

Thanks, Marcus.

[Colin Holgate]

Did you add the sound file in your iOS settings, under the General tab?

[Guest]

Yes, the files were added under the general tab.

In my application, I have a custom browser showing me all my files in my application path. It looks something like this:

[ META-INF ]

[ ...CodeSIgnature ]

[ cs.lproj ]

[ de.proj ]

(etc)

testsound1.mp3 (<- the included mp3 files)

testsound2.mp3

testsound3.mp3

CodeResources

AppIcon.png

(etc)

[Guest]

maybe it's not allowed to read from the path:

/var/mobile/Applications/6206ED19-1875-B70B-B41AFF5BDA3D/Main.app/music/TranceOne.mp3

?

[blazejewicz · Accepted solution]

Hi Marcus,

can you try (or maybe have you tried):

var path:String = file.url;

var req:URLRequest = new URLRequest(path);

?

regards,

Peter

[Guest]

yes, that is working.

thank you so much!

var req:URLRequest = new URLRequest(file.url);

[blazejewicz]

Hi Marcus,

OK, that's buried somewhere in flash.filesystem.File docs: some api and components in Flash/Air runtime details do require URI/URL *not* native path

(I cannot find specific paragraph right now but I"m sure I've read that in Adobe's docs),

regards,

Peter

[sanika Kulshreshtha]

Hi Peter,

I think you are referring to  http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/filesystem/File.html#applicationDirectory.

Sanika

[blazejewicz]

Hi Sanika,

this was something closer to that paragraph for "nativePath":

Some Flex APIs, such as the source property of the SWFLoader class, use a URL (the url property of a File object), not a native path (the nativePath property).

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/filesystem/File.html#nativePath

but that is not exactly what I've read (maybe that was A-blog or post on someone from A-team on his personal blog or post on stackoverflow).

(myself I'm using and providing solutions for paths using FILE protocol - file URI schemes - mostly whenever I can and where it is supported)

regards,

Peter

[Applauz]

Can't for the life of me figure out why this doesnt work for me.  Gives me a StreamError on the  var mySound:Sound = newSound() line

var f:File = File.applicationStorageDirectory.resolvePath("/assets/music.mp3");

var resultUrl:String = f.url; // This works to load with a URLLoader

var resultPath:String = f.nativePath; // This works to load with a FileStream operation

trace(resultPath);

var req:URLRequest = new URLRequest(resultUrl);

var mySound:Sound = new Sound();

mySound.load(req);

mySound.play();

[Applauz]

The issue I believe is the file path to where iOS is storing these files.... has it changed?  Assets doesnt seem to work anymore.

[Flipline]

As long as the assets folder was included when building the app, this seems to be working for me in another app:

var filepath:String = "assets/music.mp3";

var mySound:Sound = new Sound();

mySound.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, onMusicError);

mySound.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onMusicLoaded);

mySound.load(new URLRequest(filepath));

And then calling mySound.play() in the onMusicLoaded function.