play audio from internet using AVAudioPlayer

Question

I am implementing AVAudioPlayer to play audio and it works perfectly well while playing files locally stored in the PC.

But when i give the url of some audio file over the internet, it fails sadly. Here's what the code looks like:

NSString *url = [[NSString alloc] init];  
url = @"http://files.website.net/audio/files/audioFile.mp3";  
NSURL *fileURL = [[NSURL alloc] initWithString: url];  
AVAudioPlayer *newPlayer =[[AVAudioPlayer alloc] initWithContentsOfURL: fileURL error: nil];

Could anybody please point out the problem and what could be done?
Thanks!

Answer 1

I tried other method initWithData on AVAudioPlayer instead of initWithContentsOfURL. First try to get MP3 file into NSData and then play this data.

Look at my code here.