Use SoundPool.
On Apr 26, 9:34 am, BlackLight <blacklight1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have other problem now. Lets say I have 10 buttons (0-9), when user
> press button program should play short (0.3-0.5 secs) sound. I added
> them as wav resources. Now I see that each MediaPlayer creates its own
> thread and takes resources. I'm not sure that this is good idea to
> make 10 players. But if I create player when user presses button it
> works fine only if user presses no more than 1 button in 2 secs. If
> user presses button each second or even several buttons a second, some
> sounds are silent. What's best solution for this problem on android?
> On Pocket PC we can play wav files fast - we create thread, that uses
> WaveIO and we have no "silent" sounds. How can we make sounds ready to
> play fast?
>
> On Apr 23, 7:18 pm, Marco Nelissen <marc...@android.com> wrote:
>
> > Does it work with longer sounds?
> > Have you tried using MediaPlayer.setLooping(true) instead of restarting it
> > yourself from the OnCompletionListener callback?
>
> > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:00 AM, BlackLight
> > <blacklight1...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > > Hello.
>
> > > I have this task:
> > > Need to play short (0.3-0.4 sec) sounds all the time. When sound is
> > > played, it should start again, etc. User can press button to reset
> > > sound - it should stop and lunch.
>
> > > I did many tests. I tried to create 1 MediaPlayer, then do this:
> > > MediaPlayer.OnCompletionListener complListener = new
> > > MediaPlayer.OnCompletionListener()
> > > {
> > > public void onCompletion(MediaPlayer mp) {
> > > lunchSound(); // "rewind"
> > > }
> > > };
>
> > > private boolean lunchSound()
> > > {
> > > try
> > > {
> > > mplayer.seekTo(0); // move to start
> > > mplayer.start();
> > > return true;
> > > }catch(Exception e){}
> > > return false;
> > > }
> > > When user press button, I call lunchSound();
>
> > > It works great on emulator and on device if I have eclipse+debugger
> > > on.
> > > When I disconnect debugger, I have very strange errors - sound can
> > > stop at all (till program restart), sound can start "repeating" (play
> > > 0.1-0.2 sec, then restart). Can someone please provide me some info
> > > about problem?
> > > Thanks.
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