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Play random sound on button click

I want to my application play random sound when user click on button. So I don't want android natural sound, I want to play my own sound every time user click on one button. Does anyone knows the solution of this problem.

To play a sound:
Play sound on button click android
For a random sound you just need to add all sounds in a list.
And in the onClickListener just get a random sound from your list.
Something like this:
List<Integer> soundList = new ArrayList<Integer>();
soundList.add(R.raw.sound1);
soundList.add(R.raw.sound2);
soundList.add(R.raw.sound3);
soundList.add(R.raw.sound4);
myButton.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
playRandomSound();
}
});
private void playRandomSound() {
int randomInt = (new Random().nextInt(soundList.size()));
int sound = soundList.get(randomInt);
MediaPlayer mp = MediaPlayer.create(this, sound);
mp.start();
}
No guarantee that this works! It's just an example, how you could do it!

One way to achieve that is:
Embed your sound , as an MP3 encoded file
Attaching a click event handler in the Android App
myButtonTwo.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
//code that runs when button is clicked
}
});
Access and play the embedded MP3 file from the application in the event handler
MediaPlayer mPlayer = MediaPlayer.create(FakeCallScreen.this, R.raw.mysoundfile);
mPlayer.start();
see
How do I play an mp3 in the res/raw folder of my android app?
A tutorial explaining a complete process
http://www.accelerated-ideas.com/news/android-app-development--how-to-add-and-play-music-and-audio-files.aspx
Edit:
To disable native android click sound
yourbutton.setSoundEffectsEnabled(false);
source :
Disable Button click sound in android

Android : stop and play sound on button click

I want to play a sound on button click in game.
I can easily do this using following code
mp = MediaPlayer.create(getApplicationContext(), R.raw.sound);
mp.start();
Issue is, my clicking rate is faster then playing duration of my sound clip.
How do I stop it and play again on my second or third click and so on.
I want to match sound play to match my clicking rate.
Thanks
Abhinav Tyagi

Firstly, you should use MediaPlayer only for large files, like music. For playing sound effects, SoundPool is the way to go.
An excellent tutorial on playing back media is available HERE.
On the click of your button, call soundPool.stop() and soundPool.play() immediately in sequence to stop and start your audio playback.

You can call MediaPlayer.Stop to stop it playing sounds. You can also call MediaPlayer.Reset to return it to the Idle state.

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
MediaPlayer mplayer;
public void startPlay(View view) {
mplayer.start();
}
public void stopPlay(View view) {
mplayer.pause();
}
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
mplayer = MediaPlayer.create(this, R.raw.laugh);
}
}

Android the fastest way to load and play sound in application

I'm working on a project in which I have to load 6 different sounds in one activity and play all sound on button click.The sound file are not so big,but the problem is that maybe they will be more.So my question is which is the fastest way to load sound files in a single activity.For test purposes I used res/raw folder to store the sound files and tried with two different method to play the files,but the result did not satisfied me.Here is the two different types of code :
Method 1:
Button first = (Button) findViewById(R.id.one);
Button second = (Button) findViewById(R.id.two);
first.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
MediaPlayer mp = MediaPlayer.create(SoundFXActivity.this, R.raw.drumtwo);
mp.start();
mp.setOnCompletionListener(new OnCompletionListener() {
#Override
public void onCompletion(MediaPlayer mp) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
mp.release();
}
});
}
});
second.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
MediaPlayer mp = MediaPlayer.create(SoundFXActivity.this, R.raw.drumone);
mp.start();
mp.setOnCompletionListener(new OnCompletionListener() {
#Override
public void onCompletion(MediaPlayer mp) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
mp.release();
}
});
}
});
Method 2:
private SoundPool spool;
private int soundID,soundID2;
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
this.setVolumeControlStream(AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC);
spool = new SoundPool(10, AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC, 0);
soundID = spool.load(this, R.raw.drumone, 1);
soundID2 = spool.load(this, R.raw.drumtwo, 1);
Button three = (Button) findViewById(R.id.three);
three.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
Sound();
}
});
}
public void Sound(){
AudioManager audioManager = (AudioManager) getSystemService(AUDIO_SERVICE);
float volume = (float) audioManager.getStreamVolume(AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC);
spool.play(soundID, volume, volume, 1, 0, 1f);
};
But the problem is that the both methods are slow..I need to find a way a faster way to play the sounds..but now there is like almost a second after I click the button to play the sound.
Can you give me some advice how to play the sounda faster.Should I load them into a cache when the application starts or save them in database or somewhere else (I don't think database is a good option as a matter of fact,but I want to hear some suggestions).Or maybe load them from assets folder,but I think it still going to be slow.
So any ideas or suggestions?
Thanks in advance!

You could create the media players in your onCreate and then the buttons will just make them play. That would be the easiest solution, I would say.
Alternatively, depending on how important it is to you and how much work you want to do, you could consider using JetPlayer:
here's android development page for media:
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/index.html
The page on the JetPlayer class:
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/JetPlayer.html
and the page on creating the JET files:
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/jet/jetcreator_manual.html
If you implemented this it would likely work best but would definitely be the most work.
JetPlayer basically lets you have one audio file (i think it's a MIDI file) with multiple tracks that you mute and unmute as you please. I have no personal experience with it and have just read the docs some, but it seems like it would be very useful for any situation with more than one sound.
Edit: Also, it's worth mentioning this mailing list and in case the link ever changes this google search in case anyone is interested in android audio topics.

If you want to have the less delay you must use OpenSL in c++, From jelly bean is the faster sound player

SoundPool is working fine, you can see an example with the Hexiano project. However, you must preload the sounds into SoundPool, because it takes a lot of time to decode the file and store them in-memory before being able to use them. But once the sounds are loaded, there's no noticeable delay between key press and sound output.

Android event listeners for audio

I'm playing around with Android to learn the API and I'm trying to code an activity which can listen for changes in audio events. For example, the activity I created plays a random ringtone when you press a button. The button displays a text saying "Random Ringtone", but when you press the button it says "Stop" and pressing it will, of course, stop playing the ringtone.
However, the problem is that when the ringtone stops playing on its own, the button still says "stop".
I've looked around to try to find an event listener that could listen for when the ringtone stops playing, but I can't seem to find one. I've seen some info out there about creating your own listeners, but I'm not interested in doing that (a little advanced for me right now).
Does an event listener of this type exist?

I may be wrong but I think the only audio class which raises an event when it finishes playing is the MediaPlayer class. Something like this should work...
public class MyActivity extends Activity
implements MediaPlayer.OnCompletionListener {
MediaPlayer player = null;
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
player = new MediaPlayer();
player.setOnCompletionListener(this);
...
}
#Override
public void onCompletion(MediaPlayer mp) {
// Called when playback is complete
...
}
}

Mediaplayer plays weird sounds on Android 2.2

I've created an app that uses MediaPlayer to play a random (short) sound when a button is clicked. The sounds are played correctly on android devices < 2.2. This is the code responsible for playing sounds.
r = new Random();
sounds = new ArrayList<MediaPlayer>();
sounds.add(MediaPlayer.create(this, R.raw.sound1));
sounds.add(MediaPlayer.create(this, R.raw.sound2));
sounds.add(MediaPlayer.create(this, R.raw.sound3));
sounds.add(MediaPlayer.create(this, R.raw.sound4));
sounds.add(MediaPlayer.create(this, R.raw.sound5));
theButton.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View v) {
playSound();
}
});
private void playSound() {
Thread thread = new Thread() {
public void run() {
MediaPlayer soundPlayer = sounds.get(r.nextInt(sounds.size()));
while (soundPlayer.isPlaying())
{
soundPlayer = sounds.get(r.nextInt(sounds.size()));
}
soundPlayer.seekTo(0);
soundPlayer.start();
}
};
thread.start();
}
The sounds are all .wav files. I tried converting them to .mp3, but then they wouldn't play at all. Am I doing something extremely wrong, or is the MediaPlayer in 2.2 buggy? Anyone else had this problem and know of a fix? Keep in mind that the sounds are played normally on all other devices with an android version below 2.2.

I think you shouldn't create a ArrayList for MediaPlayer. Instead that, you use only a MediaPlayer object and a ArrayList to contain all music resources.
When you next other song, you update only the info of MediaPlayer. For example,
Release the previous MediaPlayer object.
Create other MediaPlayer object
Finally, start this song

Seems there was a problem with the sampling rate of the mp3's that the 2.2 Framework frowned upon. I fixed it by opening up the sounds in a sound editor, resampling them and adding silence to the first and last second of the sounds.