iPhone Development: How to Stream Audio (mp3)
Okay, so we’ve fully taken the plunge and are now developing for the iPhone platform. Its got a fantastic SDK, with lots of really nice features and tools to help you with your developing fun. However some tasks are a little more difficult than you’d image.
For instance, we wanted to stream an MP3 file with the iPhone. This is actually a much more complex task than you’d imagine. Thankfully, Matt Gallagher has posted an excellent example application for both Mac OS X and iPhone.
This, however, wouldn’t work for us on first go. We had errors when trying to play the stream – it turned out that we needed to delete the Divx Encoder from our Library. Remove the Divx files from here and you should be right:
/Macintosh HD/Library/QuickTime/

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