hmm.. that's odd. setLooping works for me. I have a background track that loops throughout my game, and coincidentally I too have an HTC Desire and HTC Tattoo for testing.
Nevertheless, if it's working overall that's good! On Sep 24, 6:19 am, kk <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the feedback Jason. Switching to OGG definitely fixed my > issue. > The other thing I noticed is that the setLooping call toMediaPlayer > has no effect at all. > If you want looping you just set the metadata tag ANDROID_LOOP=true. > > For SFX I'm using SoundPool, which seems to be doing the trick. > Thanks again for the response. > > cheers, > kk. > > On 23 Sep, 16:44, Jason <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Wow.. that IS weird. > > > I'm not sure what the problem is here, but there are a couple of > > things I do differently: > > > 1. Don't use MP3. Apparently the MP3 decoder on Android is a bit > > crufty. I was advised to use the OGG format and it works well. You > > can create OGG files using Audacity (it's > > free)http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ > > 2. I createMediaPlayerinstances using a simpler method, specifically > > the following: > > > A) ALL of my sound files are in resources/raw (not assets) > > B) When I want to load a sound for the game it has it's own > >MediaPlayerinstance (same as you) > > C) I createMediaPlayerinstances using the following: > > >MediaPlayer.create(context, resourceId); > > > where resourceId is something like: > > > R.raw.bgmusic > > > This does all the data source creation etc for me, and once the call > > is complete the sound is ready to play > > > I wonder if the way you are creating the datasource is somehow > > creating a reference to the entire folder? > > > Also, I don't think you need to create the stream (assuming you don't > > want to use theMediaPlayer.create() method I use). According to the > > doco the AssetFileDescriptor returned from openFd has a method called > > getFileDescriptor() > > > On 23 Sep, 07:22, kk <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm having some trouble streaming a looping background track for my > > > game usingMediaPlayer. > > > > I have a bunch of short mp3s in /res/raw that I use as SFX and I play > > > using SoundPool. > > > The SFX playback all works fine...I'm mentioning it because it's > > > relevant as you'll see below. > > > > The background music track (also an mp3) lives in /assets. The code I > > > use to play this track is at the bottom > > > of this post. Here's what happens: > > > > Instead of the track looping, once it has finished playing, it starts > > > playing all the SFX from /res/raw in sequence! > > > Then, once all these have finished playing it starts all over again, > > > i.e. playing the background music track > > > and then all the SFX in the same order. > > > > As if that wasn't weird enough, the behaviour described above only > > > happens in the emulator. > > > When tested on an HTC Tattoo and an HTC Desire it only does the above > > > once. I.e. it plays the background music > > > track, then all the SFX, and then it stops...it doesn't loop. > > > > Any help greatly appreciated since nobody here has any idea what's > > > going wrong or how to fix it! > > > > This is developed using: > > > SDK 1.6 API4 revision 3 > > > SDK Tools revision 6 > > > > The code I use for the media player playback: > > > > ===== > > > // note: p_theSurfaceView below is my class that extends SurfaceView > > > implements SurfaceHolder.Callback > > >MediaPlayerm_mediaPlayer = newMediaPlayer(); > > > FileInputStream l_fis; > > > try > > > { > > > l_fis = > > > p_theSurfaceView.getContext().getAssets().openFd("bgmusic.mp3").createInput > > > Stream(); > > > m_mediaPlayer.setDataSource(l_fis.getFD()); > > > // from the docs: It is the caller's responsibility to close the > > > file descriptor. > > > // from the docs: It is safe to do so as soon as the setDataSource > > > call returns. > > > l_fis.close(); > > > > m_mediaPlayer.prepare(); > > > > m_mediaPlayer.setLooping(true); > > > m_mediaPlayer.setOnErrorListener( > > > newMediaPlayer.OnErrorListener() { > > > public boolean onError(MediaPlayerp_mp, int p_what, > > > int p_extra) > > > { > > > Log.e("m_mediaPlayer", "ERROR:MediaPlayer: (" + > > > p_what +") with extra (" + p_extra +")" ); > > > return false; > > > } > > > }); > > > > m_mediaPlayer.start();} > > > > catch (IllegalArgumentException e) > > > { > > > e.printStackTrace(); > > > m_mediaPlayer = null; > > > return false;} > > > > catch (IllegalStateException e) > > > { > > > e.printStackTrace(); > > > m_mediaPlayer = null; > > > return false;} > > > > catch (IOException e) > > > { > > > e.printStackTrace(); > > > m_mediaPlayer = null; > > > return false; > > > > } > > > > return true; > > > ===== > > > > cheers, > > > kk. -- 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
