Play/Stop sound from another activity - android

I have 3 activities. I want to play one background music to all this activity. I made this possible by. Doing this.
In activity 1:
bgmp = MediaPlayer.create(this, R.raw.menu);
bgmp.setLooping(true);
bgmp.start();
This will make my music play up to the 3rd acitivity. At activity three. I need to stop this background music because another background music will be played when I go to the 4th activity. How can I stop the music at the 3rd acitivity that was created at the 1st activity. Any ideas? Thanks!

Define Method in common class with require parameters and use that Method in your activities.
public class CommonMethod {
public static MediaPlayer player;
public static void SoundPlayer(Context ctx,int raw_id){
player = MediaPlayer.create(ctx, raw_id);
player.setLooping(false); // Set looping
player.setVolume(100, 100);
//player.release();
player.start();
}
}
Within in your third activity, code for stop media.
CommonMethod.player.stop();

Create a service to play sound and move all your player code to service.
After that bind your activity to this service and control the music player for (play next, back, pause, stop etc.) features.

Make a singleton class and add you music playing code into it for stopping and starting and use that singleton class in all your 3 activities for eg:
public class MusicManager {
private static MusicManager refrence = null;
public static MusicManager getInstance(){
if(refrence == null){
refrence = new MusicManager ();
}
return refrence;
}
}
add a public method to this singleton class to start and stop music like
public void initalizeMediaPlayer(Context context, int musicId){
// add initalization of media player in it and loop it
}
public void startPlaying(){
// add code to start playing music
}
public void stopPlaying(){
// add code to stop playing music
}
And for making use this class use like this
MusicManager.getInstance().initalizeMediaPlayer(this, R.raw.menu); // to initalize of media player
MusicManager.getInstance().startPlaying();// to start playing music
MusicManager.getInstance().stopPlaying(); // to stop playing music
Let me know if this helps you.
Mean while you can also use service to perform this task as service runs in background . you can start service and stop service any time in your code

You Should Start Service which runs in background and write code for playing music in the service..

All you have to do is add this piece of code to your intent to the last activity:
yourMediaPlayer.pause()
So the whole code would be :
yourMediaPlayer.pause();
Intent i ...
startActivity(i);

Just put player.stop() function inside button which takes you to next activity:
example: #Override
public void onCheckedChanged(CompoundButton buttonView, boolean isChecked) {
player.stop();
Intent i=new Intent(iotmain.this,MainActivity.class);
startActivity(i);
Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(),"Chatting mode ON",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}

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Resume MediaPlayer after pressing Home Button

I have a MediaPlayer that streams music in the background, when I press the home button the music stops, which what I want, but when I resume back to the application, the music is not there anymore. And when the current track ends, it doesn't loop.
My code is the following:
MediaPlayer backgroundMusic;
int length = 0;
//play background music
backgroundMusic = MediaPlayer.create(MainActivity.this, R.raw.background_music);
backgroundMusic.start();
backgroundMusic.setLooping(true);
#Override
protected void onPause() {
super.onPause();
if(backgroundMusic.isPlaying()){
backgroundMusic.pause();
length = backgroundMusic.getCurrentPosition();
}else{
return;
}
}
public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer backgroundMusic){
backgroundMusic.start();
backgroundMusic.seekTo(length);
}
How can I resume the music from where it stopped, when I press the Home Button, and Also make the music loop.
Thanks in advance.
Try to implement your code with service class if you want your player to play even in background or if you want to store the position save your data in static variable in onpause and restore it onResume of your Activity.
Preserve position of playing in shared preferences and not in local variable

Android MediaController Play/Pause button and Seekbar doesn't Refresh

I am using MediaController.MediaPlayerControl in order to display a MediaController at the bottom of my Custom View but I can't get it to work properly. When I play music for first time then there should be pause button visible but instead there is play and when I press that button then the music is paused correctly and state remains the same and after that its working properly. Also when I play next song, the old MediaController widget gets overlapped with the new one. And sometimes the progress/seek bar doesn't refresh while the music is playing. It just updates itself when something on the MediaController is pressed (Play/Pause, forward, etc).
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This is how I initialize the controller:
private void setController()
{
controller = new MusicController(this);
controller.setPrevNextListeners(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
playNext();
}
}, new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
playPrev();
}
});
controller.setMediaPlayer(this);
controller.setAnchorView(findViewById(R.id.song_list));
controller.setEnabled(true);
}
This is how I show controller:
public void playMusic()
{
musicSrv.playSong(); //Play song in a service
setController();
controller.show(0);
controller.requestFocus();
}
I had exactly this problem. Don't know if you still need help, but I thought I'd post anyway. For posterity, are you following this tutorial?
First, the easy problem: you're getting multiple instances of your controls because of repeated calls to setController(). Change the first line of your function to:
if (controller == null) controller = new MusicController(this);
With regards to the play button malfunctioning, I believe it's because you're showing it before the music player has been prepared (disclaimer: I'm a newbie to Android myself, and the following are the things I've found to have worked).
Set up a broadcast from your music-playing service to notify your music-controlling activity when the musicplayer has been prepared. Append the following function in your music-playing service to broadcast intent:
#Override
public void onPrepared(MusicPlayer player) {
// Do some other stuff...
// Broadcast intent to activity to let it know the media player has been prepared
Intent onPreparedIntent = new Intent("MEDIA_PLAYER_PREPARED");
LocalBroadcastManager.getInstance(this).sendBroadcast(onPreparedIntent);
}
Set up a broadcast receiver in your music-controlling activity to receive the intent broadcast by your service. Add the following class to your activity:
// Broadcast receiver to determine when music player has been prepared
private BroadcastReceiver onPrepareReceiver = new BroadcastReceiver() {
#Override
public void onReceive(Context c, Intent i) {
// When music player has been prepared, show controller
controller.show(0);
}
};
Register your receiver in your activity's onResume() method:
// Set up receiver for media player onPrepared broadcast
LocalBroadcastManager.getInstance(this).registerReceiver(onPrepareReceiver,
new IntentFilter("MEDIA_PLAYER_PREPARED"));
Depending on the structure of your code, you'll have to do some general tidying up. In my code, I've only called setController() twice: from the onCreate() and onResume() methods in my activity. I also only call controller.show(0) from my broadcast receiver, and my onResume() method.

Android Media Player doesn't play after app has been left for a while in the background

Bit of a strange one this and I can't work out what's happening.
When I launch my app (a game) the music starts playing. I have a button which turns the music on and off. The settings are saved to shared prefs so they are retained.
All works well, you can press the home key, re-invoke the app, leave it in the background while doing other things etc. However, if the app is left in the background for a while (say, overnight), and then re-invoked. Everything works apart from the music.
You can go into the main menu, hit the 'music on/off' button multiple times, but get nothing.
The only way to start the music is to kill the app (or exit correctly, ie, press the 'back' key from the main menu) and then relaunch it so everything is re-created from scratch.
I've confirmed that the 'music' object is still valid and the 'music on/off' button presses are being registered.
Has anyone has similar issues with Media Player? I can't work out what I am (or am not doing) to cause this.
Code
This is my media player class:
public class MusicMan implements MediaPlayer.OnPreparedListener {
MediaPlayer musicPlayer;
MusicMan(Context myContext){
musicPlayer = MediaPlayer.create(myContext, R.raw.music);
musicPlayer.setVolume(.6f, .6f);
}
public void listener(){};
public void start(){
musicPlayer.setLooping(true);
musicPlayer.start();
}
public void stop(){
musicPlayer.stop();
}
public void pause(){
musicPlayer.pause();
}
public int getPos(){
return musicPlayer.getCurrentPosition();
}
public void skipTo(int position){
musicPlayer.seekTo(position);
}
#Override
public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer arg0) {
}
}
And then I simply crate an object like so:
MusicMan music = new MusicMan(view.getContext());
And then I just start and stop the music using the methods in the MusicMan class:
music.start();
You need to use
musicPlayer.setWakeMode(getApplicationContext(), PowerManager.PARTIAL_WAKE_LOCK);
Use this where you set new MediaPlayer player. It sets the wake lock to MediaPlayer and don't let CPU go sleep till you yourself didn't kill or stop application.

Android MediaController seekbar not refreshing

I'm using a MediaController and MediaPlayer together, to create a simple audio player in Android, taken from an example I found here on this site.
However, after much search I could not find the solution to my problem: the progress/seek bar doesn't refresh while the music is playing. It just updates itself when something on the MediaController is pressed (Play/Pause, forward, etc).
Any easy fix for this that I'm not getting ?
NOTE: My MediaController is declared in XML, and my MediaController.MediaPlayerControl methods just make use of the MediaPlayer class.
Mediaplayer provides a method getCurrentPosition() you can put this in a thread to continously update the progressbar.
public int getCurrentPositionInt(){
if (player != null)
return player.getCurrentPosition();
else
return 0;
}
Create a Thread or CountDownTimer to continuously update the seekbar :
seekBar.setMax((getCurrentPositionInt() / 1000));
OR
MediaController.MediaPlayerControl mp;
mp.seekTo((getCurrentPositionInt() / 1000))
Im Sorry for my English!
you are showing the controller before the music player is ready.
You need to notify your activity from the controller when it is ready.
public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) {
mp.start();
Intent onPreparedIntent = new Intent("MP_READY");
LocalBroadcastManager.getInstance(activity).sendBroadcast(onPreparedIntent);
}
Then you need to create a BroadcastReceiver in your activity and override his onReceive method to show the controller.
private BroadcastReceiver mpReadyReceiver = new BroadcastReceiver() {
#Override
public void onReceive(Context c, Intent i) {
controller.show(0);
}
};
You also need to register the receiver in your activity`s onResume().
protected void onResume() {
super.onResume();
LocalBroadcastManager.getInstance(this).registerReceiver(mpReadyReceiver,
new IntentFilter("MP_READY"));
}
Now try to call controller.show only when it is necesary.
Be careful not creating more than one controller instance

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) {
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...
}
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