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Smolda
Smolda

Reputation: 902

Playing sound on Android

What is the shortest duration of e.g. mp3 ? I want to play sound which is in mp3 and has 1 second. However I need to play this sound more frequently according to some behavior which does not matter now. Problem is that if I have one instance of MediaPlayer with this track it cannot be played again when the last start did not finish. Any different aproach ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1537

Answers (2)

free3dom
free3dom

Reputation: 18978

MediaPlayer is generally intended for playing longer audio streams (such as music).

Use SoundPool for playing short audio clips - it is also capable of playing multiple audio streams at once.

From the Android Developers documentation:

In addition to low-latency playback, SoundPool can also manage the number of audio streams being rendered at once. When the SoundPool object is constructed, the maxStreams parameter sets the maximum number of streams that can be played at a time from this single SoundPool. SoundPool tracks the number of active streams. If the maximum number of streams is exceeded, SoundPool will automatically stop a previously playing stream based first on priority and then by age within that priority. Limiting the maximum number of streams helps to cap CPU loading and reducing the likelihood that audio mixing will impact visuals or UI performance.

Upvotes: 2

mnutsch
mnutsch

Reputation: 894

One idea is to try using MediaPlayer.stop() at the beginning of your function which plays the sound. That way the app will stop the sound that was playing and then immediately start it again.

Upvotes: 0

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