iOS can't play audio when there is no file extension in the url

🐛 Bug Report

I recently changed my file url to a id-based url. This caused iOS to fail playing audio with an error:

Error: An unknown error occurred (1869640813) - The AVPlayerItem instance has failed with the error code -11800 and domain “AVFoundationErrorDomain”.

Android works fine without the extension, ironically, I need a overrideFileExtensionIOS instead of overrideFileExtensionAndroid.

Both urls return a Content-Type: audio/mpeg header.

Summary of Issue

When playing an .m4a audio with no extension I get this error:

Error: An unknown error occurred (1869640813) - The AVPlayerItem instance has failed with the error code -11800 and domain “AVFoundationErrorDomain”.

Environment - output of expo diagnostics & the platform(s) you’re targeting

This happens with Expo SDK 37 and so far with any iPhone model

Steps to Reproduce

const sound = new Audio.Sound();
sound.loadAsync({
    uri: 'https//server.com/audiofile/download'
}) // throws error

sound.loadAsync({
    uri: 'https//server.com/audiofile/download.m4a'
}) // all good 

Expected Behavior vs Actual Behavior

Audio should play

[sarevok89]

Update: I tried to first load the external uri as an Asset and passed that into Audio.Sound.createAsync() but no luck there either.

I literally ended up “fixing” it with if( isWeb || isIos ) return Linking.openURL( audioURI ).

Hey, could you give some more details on how you solved this? I’m struggling with the issue with Cloudfront signed URLs without file extensions.

[dev-abuke]

Is there Anyone Who have found a solution for this issue, it’s still occurring.