Question

I have some mp3 files in my resources folder, how can i play those mp3 files? I just know their name.

Answer 1

Just to supplement @Georg‘s answer.

As you can see from the doc, -URLForResource:withExtension: is available only since 4.0. As 3.x is still widespread, it’s better to use the backward-compatible methods:

• By converting a path to NSURL:

  NSString* path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"myFile" ofType:@"mp3"];
  NSURL* url = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:path];
  ....
  

• or, by CoreFoundation methods:

  CFURLRef url = CFBundleCopyResourceURL(CFBundleGetMain(),
                                         CFSTR("myFile"), CFSTR("mp3"), NULL);
  ....
  CFRelease(url);