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Radio stream issue

Hi we have an app in the playstore that has a module that play a stream from an url, the app works fine and we make a yearly release, but now that we are making changes, the part of the radio does not work, in any device.
Basically my code is
mediaPlayer = new MediaPlayer();
try {
mediaPlayer.setAudioStreamType(AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC);
mediaPlayer.setDataSource("http://radio.promosat.com:8104/");
mediaPlayer.setOnPreparedListener(new MediaPlayer.OnPreparedListener() {
#Override
public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) {
mp.start();
}
});
mediaPlayer.prepareAsync();
}catch (Exception ex){
ex.printStackTrace();
}
I keep getting this error
E/MediaPlayer: Error (1,-2147483648)
This worked perfectly, the url that we use it's in the example code, it uses a pls file, that's where we obtained the stream url.

The error was the encoding of the stream...aacp is not supported in Android.

Android MediaPlayer.start does not start

I have yet to find an answer to this.
I have a local file (R.raw.Bob); and I am trying to use MediaPlayer to play the file.
Sometimes it plays, sometimes it does not. I have another file which plays seemingly fine every time.
My activity flow is like this: In onCreate I do the following:
MediaPlayer mBackground = MediaPlayer.create(MainAct.this, R.raw.background);
mBackground.start(); // Works as expected.
Now in a different part of the activity I have the following:
MediaPlayer mBob= MediaPlayer.create(MainActivity.this, R.raw.Bob);
mBob.start();
And nothing occurs. I have used Log.i() and the execution goes through the relevant code but the file does not start.
Why does MediaPlayer sometimes work and sometimes does not, and is there a more reliable way of playing sound files?

Try this to start:
MediaPlayer mBob = MediaPlayer.create(MainActivity.this, R.raw.Bob);
mBob.setOnPreparedListener(new MediaPlayer.OnPreparedListener() {
#Override
public void onPrepared(final MediaPlayer mp) {
mp.start();
}
});
and this to stop:
mBob.setOnCompletionListener(new MediaPlayer.OnCompletionListener() {
#Override
public void onCompletion(MediaPlayer mp) {
mp.stop();
}
});

Android KitKat (4.4.2) MediaPlayer OnCompletion() never called

I am having a problem with the MediaPlayer on devices running android version 4.4.2.
Situation:
I want to run the MediaPlayer once, then decide in the onCompletion, if I want to play the sound again or not.
Problem:
* The mediaPlayer just keeps playing for ever
* onCompletion is never called
* Calling release and setting the mediaPlayer to null does not stop it either
I have read, that there is a bug in the 4.4 android versions. (https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=59185) does anyone know, if this is corrected? Is there an alternative?
Any ideas, suggestions and answers would be very welcome!
Here is some of my code:
public void start(){
Uri uri = getRingtoneUri(this);
try{
mediaPlayer = new MediaPlayer();
mediaPlayer.setDataSource(this, notificationSound);
mediaPlayer = MediaPlayer.create(this, notificationSound);
mediaPlayer.setLooping(false);
mediaPlayer.start();
mediaPlayer.setOnCompletionListener(this);
}catch(IOException e){
log("onStartCommand", "notification Sound could not be loaded: ", e);
}
}
public void onCompletion(MediaPlayer mp) {
log("onComltion", "stop: " + stop);
// do something
}
public void stop(){
mediaPlayer.release();
mediaPlayer = null;
}

android mediaplayer loops forever on ICS

I want to play a notification sound and my problem it that the sound loops forever, when it should sound only once.
I've tried two ways:
notification.sound = Uri.parse("content://media/internal/audio/media/38");
and
mMediaPlayer = new MediaPlayer();
mMediaPlayer.setAudioStreamType(AudioManager.STREAM_NOTIFICATION);
mMediaPlayer.setDataSource(this, Uri.parse("content://media/internal/audio/media/38"));
mMediaPlayer.setLooping(false);
mMediaPlayer.prepare();
mMediaPlayer.setOnPreparedListener(new OnPreparedListener() {
#Override
public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) {
Log.v(Utils.TAG, "onprepared");
mp.start();
}
});
mMediaPlayer.setOnCompletionListener(new OnCompletionListener() {
#Override
public void onCompletion(MediaPlayer mp) {
Log.v(Utils.TAG, "end, we should release");
mp.stop();
mp.release();
}
});
In the second case, I never see the trace "end, we should release", the audio is played over and over and over again.
Any idea?
Thank you very much
UPDATE:
I've tried two devices and:
It loops forever on a Galaxy Nexus with ICS 4.0.4
It works fine on a HTC Hero 2.2.1

There are sounds with "built-in" loops which will play for ever. This is different to setting the MediaPlayer to looping. If you start playing a sound with a built-in loop, it will never finish. These are mostly ring tones (as opposed to alarm tones or notification tones). You can set the RingtoneManager to return only notification tones or alarm tones with myringtonemanager.setType(RingtoneManager.TYPE_ALARM|RingtoneManager.TYPE_NOTIFICATION)
which will exclude most looping sounds, but unfortunaley this is not guaranteed to exclude them all on any device. :-(
Therefore the solution of Tiago Almeida is a good work-around (and i've voted it up) though it will also truncate all sounds which have just a few (and no infinite) loops.

Try this:
try {
mp.setDataSource(uri.toString());
mp.setAudioStreamType(AudioManager.STREAM_ALARM);
mp.prepare();
mp.start();
mp.setOnSeekCompleteListener(new OnSeekCompleteListener() {
public void onSeekComplete(MediaPlayer mp) {
mp.stop();
mp.release();
}
});
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}

One more workaround for this problem
boolean soundPlayedOnce = true;
if(soundPlayedOnce){
mp.start();
soundPlayedOnce = false;
}
set this boolean to true right before you want to play sound

Mediaplayer error (-19,0) after repeated plays

I have a game in which a sound plays when a level is completed. Everything works fine to start with but after repeating a level 10 or 20 times the logcat suddenly reports:
"MediaPlayer error (-19,0)" and/or "MediaPlayer start called in state 0" and the sounds are no longer made.
I originally had the all sounds in mp3 format but, after reading that ogg may be more reliable, I converted them all to ogg, but the errors appeared just the same.
Any idea how I can fix this problem?

I was getting the same problem, I solved it by adding the following code to release the player:
mp1 = MediaPlayer.create(sound.this, R.raw.pan1);
mp1.start();
mp1.setOnCompletionListener(new OnCompletionListener() {
public void onCompletion(MediaPlayer mp) {
mp.release();
};
});

I think you are not releasing the mediaplayers you are using to play the sound..
You need to release() the media players otherwise the resources are not released , and you soon get out of memory (since you allocate them again next time). so,I think you can play twice or even thrice... but not many times without releasing the resources

MediaPlayer is not a good option when you are playing small sound effects as the user can click on multiple buttons very soon and you will have to create a MP object for all of them which doesnt happen synchronously. That is why you are not hearing sounds for every click. Go for the SoundPool Class which allows you to keep smaller sounds loaded in memory and you can play them any time you want without any lag which you would feel in a mediaplayer. http://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/SoundPool.html Here is a nice tutorial : http://www.anddev.org/using_soundpool_instead_of_mediaplayer-t3115.html

I solved both the errors (-19,0) and (-38,0) , by creating a new object of MediaPlayer every time before playing and releasing it after that.
Before :
void play(int resourceID) {
if (getActivity() != null) {
//Using the same object - Problem persists
player = MediaPlayer.create(getActivity(), resourceID);
player.setAudioStreamType(AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC);
player.setOnCompletionListener(new MediaPlayer.OnCompletionListener() {
#Override
public void onCompletion(MediaPlayer mp) {
player.release();
}
});
player.setOnPreparedListener(new MediaPlayer.OnPreparedListener() {
#Override
public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) {
mp.start();
}
});
}
}
After:
void play(int resourceID) {
if (getActivity() != null) {
//Problem Solved
//Creating new MediaPlayer object every time and releasing it after completion
final MediaPlayer player = MediaPlayer.create(getActivity(), resourceID);
player.setAudioStreamType(AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC);
player.setOnCompletionListener(new MediaPlayer.OnCompletionListener() {
#Override
public void onCompletion(MediaPlayer mp) {
player.release();
}
});
player.setOnPreparedListener(new MediaPlayer.OnPreparedListener() {
#Override
public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) {
mp.start();
}
});
}
}

This is a very old question, But this came up first in my search results So other people with the same issue will probably come upon this page eventually.
Unlike what some others have said, you can in fact use MediaPlayer for small sounds without using a lot of memory. I'll put in a little modified snippit from my soundboard app to show you what I'm getting at.
private MediaPlayer mp;
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.your_layout);
mp = new MediaPlayer();
}
private void playSound(int soundID){
mp.reset();
AssetFileDescriptor sound = getResources().openRawResourceFd(soundID);
try {
mp.setDataSource(sound.getFileDescriptor(),sound.getStartOffset(),sound.getLength());
mp.prepare();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
mp.start();
}
with the way I set it up, you create on MediaPlayer object that you reuse everytime you play a sound so that you don't use up too much space.
You call .reset() instead of .release() because .release() is only used if you are disposing of an object, however you want to keep your MediaPlayer Object.
You use an assetfiledescriptor to set a new soundfile for your mediaplayer to play instead of setting a new object to your mediaplayer address because that way you are creating new objects within the method that aren't being handled properly and you will eventually run into the same error as you described.
This is only one of many ways to use MediaPlayer but I personally think it is the most efficient if you are only using it for small sound applications. The only issue with it is that it is relatively restrictive in what you can accomplish, but that shouldn't be much of an issue if you are indeed using it for small sound applications.

i try delete emulator and new create emulator for remove error of (-19,0) media player.