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Playing short selfmade sound with immediate start in iOS

I have a self-generated DTMF sound (with a wav header) generated by program that I want to be able to play quickly, in fact as soon as the user touches a button. This DTMF sound must play/loop infinitely, until I stop it. Some other sounds must be able to be played at the same time.

I'm very new to Audio programming, and I tested many ways of doing that and I'm lost now.

How can I achieve that ?

Needs :

  • very quick playback start (including the first time)
  • many sounds at the same time (short sounds +- 2-6 seconds)
  • infinite DTMF sound without gaps
  • having control over the different sounds that are playing / being able to stop just one played sound
Solution

  • AVAudioPlayer if you can live with some latency, OpenAL (for example Finch) if you really need to have the latency as low as possible.