view.swift

class ContainerViewController: UIViewController, UITableViewDelegate, NSFetchedResultsControllerDelegate {
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        // Play on touch down
        var td = UILongPressGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: "touchDown:")
        td.minimumPressDuration = 0;
        td.allowableMovement = 10000;
        self.table.addGestureRecognizer(td);
    }

    func touchDown(gesture: UIGestureRecognizer) {
        if (gesture.state == UIGestureRecognizerState.Ended) {
            if self.playerViewController != nil {
                self.playerViewController!.dismissViewControllerAnimated(false, completion: nil);
            }
        }
        if (gesture.state != UIGestureRecognizerState.Began) { return; }
        
        let fingerLocation = gesture.locationInView(self.table);
        if let indexPath = self.table.indexPathForRowAtPoint(fingerLocation) {
            let container = self.fetchedResultsController?.objectAtIndexPath(indexPath) as NSManagedObject
            // do stuff with container
            self.performSegueWithIdentifier("show_player", sender: self);
        }
    }
}

I'd recommend something like this:

// touchDown is not an appropriate name now that this handles all touch events
func tableRecognizer(gesture: UIGestureRecognizer) {
    switch gesture.state {
    case .Began:
        let fingerLocation = gesture.locationInView(self.table)
        if let indexPath = self.table.indexPathForRowAtPoint(fingerLocation) {
            // you're doing an unconditional type-cast here, which will fail if
            // self.fetchedResultsController is nil. You should either use
            // `as? NSManagedObject` or `as NSManagedObject?`, with the latter
            // failing if the object is non-nil but not an NSManagedObject and
            // the former returning nil in that case.
            // If you're confident assuming that self.fetchedResultsController
            // is non-nil, then you might want to use ! instead to indicate
            // that.
            let container = self.fetchedResultsController?.objectAtIndexPath(indexPath) as NSManagedObject
            // do stuff with container
            self.performSegueWithIdentifier("show_player", sender: self)
        }
    case .Ended, .Cancelled:
        // note that we're responding to both .Ended AND .Cancelled, otherwise
        // cancelled touches (e.g. because of phone calls) won't dismiss the
        // view controller.
        self.playerViewController?.dismissViewControllerAnimated(false, completion: nil)
    default:
        // we don't want to handle other events
        () // we need some expression, () is the standard expression that means no value.
    }
}