Media class downloading whole streaming file on iOS before play?

[Nick Burka]

I’ve been implementing a simple Media playback app. It looks something like:

console.log(’start');
mediaPlayer = new Media(
    uri_to_my_mp3_file,
    mediaSuccess,
    mediaError,
    mediaStatus);

console.log(’end’);
mediaPlayer.play();

When the JavaScript executes, it takes 20+ seconds between the ‘start’ and 
‘end’ logs. Then when I seekTo() on the playing file, it’s virtually 
instantaneous. I presume that the Media class is downloading the entire file on 
instantiation?

A few other people seem to have the same problem:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19938383/phonegap-build-media-play-takes-a-long-time-to-start-playing
http://community.phonegap.com/nitobi/topics/phone_gap_media_api_ios_slow_loading

Any help would be much appreciated.