OSStatus error 1718449215

In case this helps others: I just had the same error, and it was caused by trying to create/use audio files in the wrong format. I had preset the recording to create a .caf file, but instead, called the file xxx.wav.

OSStatus error codes are pain, they are often too general to help. Did you try to decode the four-char error code? Sometimes that helps (other times you just get garbage). Create and show us a minimal code example that exhibits the problem. In this case I bet that the four-char code is fmt?. Google for the numeric code and you should be wiser.

1718449215 is the decimal representation of the four character code for the kAudioFormatUnsupportedDataFormatError error.

In general you can use something like this to get more information from the errors you receive:

NSError *error = [NSError errorWithDomain:NSOSStatusErrorDomain
                          code:my_error_code
                          userInfo:nil];
NSLog(@"Error: %@", [error description]);