For one-shot sounds, don't set loop, just use the following each time you want to trigger a sound:
bingSound.seekTo(0); bingSound.start(); On Oct 28, 2:01 pm, tobias429 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking for a solution to play sounds multiple times in an > application. In the application, as soon as a user performs operation > A, the application shall respond with a *bing* sound. Performing > operation B shall produce a *bong*. That means during the application > life cycle, both sounds will potentially be played several dozen > times. I have tried three different ways to achieve this. None of them > seems to work: > > For all options, I have added 2 wav files, one for *bing* and one for > *bong* in the application's Resource Package. > > Option 1: > ======= > For both wav files, I am opening a MediaPlayer via e.g. > bingSound=MediaPlayer.create(context, resid). In the application, > whenever a sound shall be played, I call bingSound.start(). > > Result: > This works fine the first time. If I call bingSound.start() a second > time no sound plays, and I get an exception that I called start() on a > MediaPlayer instance in the wrong state. > > Option 2: > ======= > Whenever the application shall play a sound, I create a new > MediaPlayer from scratch via e.g. > bingSound=MediaPlayer.create(context, resid); bingSound.start() > > Result: > This works fine a number of times, until appearantly the maximum > number of MediaPlayers is reached, and the application simply halts. > > Option 3: > ======= > I create a new MediaPlayer via MediaPlayer.create(context, resid). I > set looping to true. When the application shall play the sound, I call > bingSound.start(). When the sound shall stop, I call > bingSound.seekTo(0), followed by bingSound.pause(). > > Result: > This works fine for looping sounds. For the classical *bing* sound > that shall only be played once and does not loop, it is next to > impossible to time the calls in a way that the sound is only played > once. > > Question > ======= > Is there any possible approach to play the same, non looping sound > several dozen times in an application? > > Thanks for any help! > > Tobias --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
