cocoa playing an mp3

Question

Is there an easy way to load, play and control an mp3 file from cocoa? Tried googling it, but, as all things apple, i get messy results and have no idea where to start. As i understand, there's and NSSound, but it has lots of limitations and then there's CoreAudio, but it's very difficult. So can someone point me in a right direction with this? Thanks.

Answer 1

RESURRECTION IN PROGRESS:

Why resurrect this question? because Googling "cocoa playing mp3" Takes me here, and there is no awesome 2012 answer. So, here is the awesome 2012 answer ;)

Use AVFoundation! According to apple, it has been integrated with Mac OS X Lion (I think), so.. Here is how to play mp3 painlessly:

1- link the AVFoundation Framework.

2- import it wherever you want to play your awesome mp3

#import <AVFoundation/AVFoundation.h>

3- Add an audioPlayer instance variable to play the sound (That's how I like to do it, at least)

@interface WCMainWindow : ... {
    ...
    AVAudioPlayer* audioPlayer;
}

4- In you init, make sure you initialize your audioPlayer:

NSString* path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"myFile" ofType:@"mp3"];
NSURL* file = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:path];
// thanks @gebirgsbaerbel

audioPlayer = [[AVAudioPlayer alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:file error:nil];
[audioPlayer prepareToPlay];

5- Play your awesome Mp3!!

if ([audioPlayer isPlaying]) {
    [audioPlayer pause];
} else {
    [audioPlayer play];
}

Finally, credit goes to this guy.