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Reputation: 370

Android Audio Streaming Service: MediaPlayer error -1004

I'm stuck on this problem:

I'm quite new to Android and I'm currently trying to develop a simple Service to stream audio from an URL data source, a Web Radio.
This Service has one of the simplest implementation of a MediaPlayer that I've ever found, something like: 

MediaPlayer mediaPlayer = new MediaPlayer();
try {
    mediaPlayer.setAudioStreamType(AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC);
    mediaPlayer.setDataSource(url);
    mediaPlayer.setOnPreparedListener(new MediaPlayer.OnPreparedListener() {
        @Override
        public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) {
            mp.start();
        }
    });
    mediaPlayer.prepareAsync();
}
catch (Exception ex) {
    ex.printStackTrace();
}

At the beginning I used a test URL, more specifically http://icecast.omroep.nl/radio1-bb-mp3, and everything worked fine.
Today I've been given the definitive URL: http://eu3.radioboss.fm:8037/live and MediaPlayer started giving me MEDIA_ERROR_IO (-1004).

I've read that this can be caused by an unsupported Media Format, but I don't know how I can get the encoding of the stream.
And the real problem is that I've absolutely NO control over the definitive URL.

Can someone suggest me how can I make the definitive audio source work?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 892

Answers (1)

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Reputation: 370

At the end, it turned out that the simplest solution was to use ExoPlayer.

As the Developer Guide says, MediaCodecVideoTrackRenderer and MediaCodecAudioTrackRenderer "can handle all audio and video formats supported by a given Android device".

That's how I've initialized my Internet Radio using ExoPlayer: 

private static final int BUFFER_SEGMENT_SIZE = 64 * 1024;
private static final int BUFFER_SEGMENT_COUNT = 256;

private void initMediaPlayer() {
    // We create an ExoPlayer with argument 1 because
    // we are going to use exclusively an audio renderer
    ExoPlayer player = ExoPlayer.Factory.newInstance(1);
    // String with the url of the radio we want to play
    String url = "http://eu3.radioboss.fm:8037/live";
    Uri radioUri = Uri.parse(url);
    // Settings for our ExoPlayer
    Allocator allocator = new DefaultAllocator(BUFFER_SEGMENT_SIZE);
    String userAgent = Util.getUserAgent(this, "AudioStreamService");
    DataSource dataSource = new DefaultUriDataSource(this, null, userAgent);
    ExtractorSampleSource sampleSource = new ExtractorSampleSource(
        radioUri,
        dataSource,
        allocator,
        BUFFER_SEGMENT_SIZE * BUFFER_SEGMENT_COUNT
    );
    this.audioRenderer = new MediaCodecAudioTrackRenderer(sampleSource, MediaCodecSelector.DEFAULT);
    // Prepare ExoPlayer
    player.prepare(this.audioRenderer);
}

Hope this will help someone.

Upvotes: 1

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