AvAudioPlayer command for delegate in nil frees the delegate object?

@implementation MyClass

-(id) init
{
    NSString *path0 = [ [NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"myfile" ofType:@"m4a" ];
    mSound = [[AVAudioPlayer alloc]initWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:path0] error:NULL]; 
    mSound.delegate = self;  
}

-(void) release 
{

    mSound.delegate = nil;  //<- this line causes MyClass release function to be called recursively
   [ mSound release ];      //<- removing the line above makes this line do the same, i.e. calls myclass release recursively  
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

It seems that freeing the AvAudioPlayer also frees the delegate object, I tried to trigger the save myself when assigning it to the delegate, but that didn't help.

even if I do something like:

-(id) init
{
    NSString *path0 = [ [NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"myfile" ofType:@"m4a" ];
    mSound = [[AVAudioPlayer alloc]initWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:path0] error:NULL]; 
    mSound.delegate = self; 
    mSound.delegate = nil;  //<- (just for test), causes MyClass release to be invoked,    
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

I get freeing Myclass to be called immediately after initialization when I assign nil to the delegate

Any idea what's going on?