I have a home screen that is a simple menu. I have chosen an mp3 file as background audio and indeed it is in the BT_audio folder in Xcode. I can even play it from there. But when I run the app on the simulator, no sound. Any ideas? Thanks

I don't trust the simulator. Have you tried on a physical device?

Yes. No dice. I have the mp3 file in both bt_audio and in bt_docs but no good.

The only way I seem to be able to get it to play is to add some html code. However this won't autoplay and many an internet post seems to confirm that Apple won't allow autoplay. I guess I can live with this, but the play icon for the audio file is partially hidden under the nav bar on smaller devices. Any way to get the play icon to be a little further down. The html code is : <audio autoplay="autoplay" controls="controls" loop="loop" preload="auto" tabindex="0"> <source src="chopin.mp3" type="audio/mpeg"> </source></audio>

can you not just add some <P></P> before your code?

That seems like a good idea. I'll try it when I get home from work but I'd still like to know why the simple menu audio item doesn't do what it seems to be intended to do.

Actually, added the <p></p>'s but the audio play button remains in an unchanged position. Put the code right before the code I referenced above. Strange.

Actually you need to put something between the opening and closing tags. Spaces are not sufficient. So I put in a few --- and that works. Still would rather use the simple menu without having to put in html so if anyone could figure out why that's not working I'd appreciate it.