iphone - Streaming with an AVAudioplayer

Question

In order to load a sound file, I have the following code in my application :

- (id) init:(NSString*)a_filename ext:(NSString*)a_ext 
{
    ...

    NSString *t_soundFilePath = [CFileLoader getPathForResource:filename WithExtension:ext];
    NSURL *t_fileURL = [[[NSURL alloc] initFileURLWithPath: t_soundFilePath] autorelease];

    player = [[AVAudioPlayer alloc] initWithContentsOfURL: t_fileURL error: nil];
    [player prepareToPlay];
    ...

    }

All the sounds that I load are in my bundle, so I would like to know if the method "initwithcontentsofurl" stream the sound file or if all the file is cached.

I have a lot of sprites in my app so I want to minimize memory space used for sounds.

thx for your help

Answer 1

I used AVPlayer (not AVAudioPlayer) to stream background audio.