I haven't looked at imeem, but one way to get around the issue is using an HTTP proxy on the device. The proxy server could be buffering up the next stream while the current stream is playing.
On Dec 30 2008, 11:37 pm, Dan McGuirk <mcgu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm wondering if anyone knows how the imeem application is handling > its streaming audio. It seems to be able to buffer the entire track > as quickly as possible, as well as buffering the upcoming track before > it is played. > > As far as I can tell from reading several other threads here, that is > only possible by writing the track to a file and then pointing the > media player at the file. But I'm watching df pretty closely and I > don't see the space used on any of the partitions going up as it > buffers. Is the data hiding somewhere? > > Another possibility that was raised was that you could do this using a > file descriptor associated with a socket, sort of like in this > example: > > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa... > > But apparently this doesn't work--I'm guessing maybe because the > MediaPlayer tries to seek on the fd to determine its length? > (Guessing based on its behavior with normal files that are appended to > after it starts playing.) > > Is there some other possibility? Obviously the imeem folks have it > working well somehow, but I don't quite get how. Some of the other > threads I've read seem to be telling me this isn't quite possible > (links below). > > If I just pass URLs to MediaPlayer one after the other in the normal > way, there's way too long of a delay (10+ seconds) between tracks. > That's too long; long enough for the user to start thinking, "Why > isn't this working?", pick up the phone and double-check it, etc. So > I need some way to start buffering an upcoming track in advance (maybe > create a second MediaPlayer and call prepareAsync() early... although > this seems messy, and it can't be what imeem is doing). > > Thanks for any help. > > Related threads: > > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa...http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa...http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
