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Mohammad Moghimi
Mohammad Moghimi

Reputation: 4686

Right place for putting mp3 files in an android project

Is there any folder like res/drawable for mp3 or generally audio files? If yes, what is it and how can I get access to it from the app?

Upvotes: 43

Views: 75335

Answers (4)

Tabish khan
Tabish khan

Reputation: 782

Here are some steps you can easily follow.

  1. Open the android studio with the project in which you want to add-on audio clip/media file.

  2. Create a raw folder in the resources folder.

  3. Add media file to the raw folder by simply copy and paste that to the raw folder.

  4. Here we added a media file “ring.mp3”. Now open the Java File of the desired activity, here we are adding the audio in the MainActivity.

  5. Further add this code.

    MediaPlayer ring = MediaPlayer.create(MainActivity.this, R.raw.ring); ring.start();

  6. Now run the App and your music will play when App starts

Upvotes: 13

wesk
wesk

Reputation: 1048

You should save the .mp3 into res/raw. AndroidStudio recognizes the raw folder. (By contrast, it does not automatically recognize a res/assets folder).

To play music.mp3:

mediaPlayer = MediaPlayer.create(ctx, R.raw.cat_meow); mediaPlayer.start();

Note the convenient use of R. syntax.

Upvotes: 7

Anurag Ramdasan
Anurag Ramdasan

Reputation: 4330

The best place to put such .mp3 or any other files would be in the assets folder.

These files once stored will become a part of your android app itself and can be read easily. This tutorial describes it well.

 AssetFileDescriptor afd = getAssets().openFd("AudioFile.mp3");
 MediaPlayer player = new MediaPlayer();
 player.setDataSource(afd.getFileDescriptor(),afd.getStartOffset(),afd.getLength());
 player.prepare();
 player.start();

Alternatively you can also store it in the raw folder and read it directly by specifying the path as the raw folder. this can be played as:

int resID=getResources().getIdentifier(fname, "raw", getPackageName());
MediaPlayer mediaPlayer=MediaPlayer.create(this,resID);

Upvotes: 35

Zaid Daghestani
Zaid Daghestani

Reputation: 8615

Place it into your assets folder. Preferably under assets/raw/myfile.mp3 You can access it using:

String mp3File = "raw/music.mp3";
AssetManager assetMan = getAssets();
MediaPlayer media = new MediaPlayer();
FileInputStream mp3Stream = assetMan.openFd(mp3File).createInputStream();
media.setDataSource(mp3Stream.getFD());
media.prepare();
media.start();

Upvotes: 3

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