startPlayer not working on iOS with specific URLs and 3.x.x version

[ChawkiOS]

Version of react-native-audio-recorder-player

"react-native-audio-recorder-player": "^3.5.1"

Version of React Native

"react-native": "0.66.0"

Platforms you faced the error (IOS or Android or both?)

IOS

Expected behavior

startPlayer works with an audio I stored in my server.

const path = 'https://staging.media.ensembl.fr/original/uploads/26403543-c7d0-4d44-82c2-eb8364c614d0'
await audioPlayer.startPlayer(path);

Actual behavior

It only works on Android with "react-native-audio-recorder-player": "^3.5.1"
It works on iOS and Android when I downgrade to "react-native-audio-recorder-player": "^2.7.0"

[hyochan]

@ChawkiOS Hello thanks for raising this issue!

I've tested this with the .mp3 extension and this works nice. You can try with the below URL.

https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/cooni-ebee8.appspot.com/o/test-audio.mp3?alt=media&token=d05a2150-2e52-4a2e-9c8c-d906450be20b

Related: https://stackoverflow.com/a/15850580/8841562

The reason react-native-audio-recorder-player@2+ worked is that this does not stream the audio from the URL. Rather it downloads the file first and then plays. Related issue in #231