CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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Giannis
Giannis

Reputation: 121

Media player that plays an mp3 from assets folder throws Exception

I am trying to make my app use an alert sound through the following code but i get an IOException

private void playSound() {
    try {
        AssetFileDescriptor afd = getAssets().openFd("sounds/alert.mp3");
        MediaPlayer mediaPlayer = new MediaPlayer();
        Log.d(TAG, "playSound: mediaplayer created....................");
        mediaPlayer.setDataSource(afd.getFileDescriptor());
        // MediaPlayer reads the file and gets ready to play
        mediaPlayer.prepare();
        mediaPlayer.start();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

The stack trace is the following

10-22 22:46:47.380 8612-8612/com.example.android.timer E/MediaPlayer: Unable to to create media player
10-22 22:46:47.400 8612-8612/com.example.android.timer W/System.err: java.io.IOException: setDataSourceFD failed.: status=0x80000000
10-22 22:46:47.430 8612-8612/com.example.android.timer W/System.err:     at android.media.MediaPlayer.setDataSource(Native Method)
10-22 22:46:47.430 8612-8612/com.example.android.timer W/System.err:     at android.media.MediaPlayer.setDataSource(MediaPlayer.java:1032)
10-22 22:46:47.430 8612-8612/com.example.android.timer W/System.err:     at com.example.android.timer.MainActivity.playSound(MainActivity.java:147)
10-22 22:46:47.430 8612-8612/com.example.android.timer W/System.err:     at com.example.android.timer.MainActivity.access$000(MainActivity.java:23)
10-22 22:46:47.430 8612-8612/com.example.android.timer W/System.err:     at com.example.android.timer.MainActivity$1.onPlayNotification(MainActivity.java:52)
10-22 22:46:47.430 8612-8612/com.example.android.timer W/System.err:     at com.example.android.timer.MyTimer.run(MyTimer.java:113)
10-22 22:46:47.430 8612-8612/com.example.android.timer W/System.err:     at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:615)
10-22 22:46:47.430 8612-8612/com.example.android.timer W/System.err:     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
10-22 22:46:47.430 8612-8612/com.example.android.timer W/System.err:     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
10-22 22:46:47.440 8612-8612/com.example.android.timer W/System.err:     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4940)
10-22 22:46:47.440 8612-8612/com.example.android.timer W/System.err:     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
10-22 22:46:47.440 8612-8612/com.example.android.timer W/System.err:     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
10-22 22:46:47.440 8612-8612/com.example.android.timer W/System.err:     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:798)
10-22 22:46:47.440 8612-8612/com.example.android.timer W/System.err:     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:565)
10-22 22:46:47.440 8612-8612/com.example.android.timer W/System.err:     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

MainActivity.java:147 where the problem is located is the line 

mediaPlayer.setDataSource(afd.getFileDescriptor());

My mp3 file is located at assets/sounds/alert.mp3 and I can see that in the project manager it is represented with a question mark. Any ideas?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1608

Answers (3)

Sardar Khan
Sardar Khan

Reputation: 841

Make A raw folder in res directory and put all mp3 files in raw folder and reference like this R.raw.alert.mp3.Sure this help thanks

Upvotes: 2

Giannis
Giannis

Reputation: 121

Well the answer was simple eventually. Replaced

mediaPlayer.setDataSource(afd.getFileDescriptor());

with the following

mediaPlayer.setDataSource(afd.getFileDescriptor(),afd.getStartOffset(), afd.getLength());

Upvotes: 0

T.S
T.S

Reputation: 951

Try: 

player.setDataSource(afd.getFileDescriptor(),afd.getStartOffset(),afd.getLength());

If it doesn't work then you can add your mp3 to raw folder and then:

MediaPlayer player = MediaPlayer.create(this, R.raw.mp3_file);

Upvotes: 2

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