Creating and playing a sound in swift

This is similar to some other answers, but perhaps a little more “Swifty”:

// Load "mysoundname.wav"
if let soundURL = Bundle.main.url(forResource: "mysoundname", withExtension: "wav") {
    var mySound: SystemSoundID = 0
    AudioServicesCreateSystemSoundID(soundURL as CFURL, &mySound)
    // Play
    AudioServicesPlaySystemSound(mySound);
}

Note that this is a trivial example reproducing the effect of the code in the question. You’ll need to make sure to import AudioToolbox, plus the general pattern for this kind of code would be to load your sounds when your app starts up, saving them in SystemSoundID instance variables somewhere, use them throughout your app, then call AudioServicesDisposeSystemSoundID when you’re finished with them.

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