Inserting sound on Xcode 6 Swift

Question

Could someone please help and tell me what the code would be to insert sound into my xcode 6 swift project and have it playing in the background

Answer 1

For OS X, to get sounds to play you can either use NSSound or for more advanced things Core Audio.

With NSSound (the easiest way) you would put a sound file in your assets library, and then do:

var sound = NSSound(named: "name_of_sound")
sound.play()

For iOS try the following code:

import UIKit
import AVFoundation

class ViewController: UIViewController {

var audioPlayer = AVAudioPlayer()

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    var alertSound = NSURL(fileURLWithPath: NSBundle.mainBundle().pathForResource("sound_name", ofType: "wav"))
    println(alertSound)

    // Removed deprecated use of AVAudioSessionDelegate protocol
    AVAudioSession.sharedInstance().setCategory(AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayback, error: nil)
    AVAudioSession.sharedInstance().setActive(true, error: nil)

    var error:NSError?
    audioPlayer = AVAudioPlayer(contentsOfURL: alertSound, error: &error)
    audioPlayer.prepareToPlay()
    audioPlayer.play()
    }

}

and it seems to be a good idea in general to have the audio player as a class member