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Team. Coco
Team. Coco

Reputation: 221

C# - Xamarin Forms audio player stops working after 5 or 6 uses

I am using this implementation of an Audio Player in Xamarin

https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1088094/Playing-audio-mp-File-in-Xamarin-Forms

I have a button in my code that, when pressed, plays a certain, short (1-2 seconds) tone.

The player in the link works well, but for some reason if I repeatedly press my button like 5 or 6 times the audio player doesnt work anymore. Even if I leave the page and come back the audio player still doesn't work. What could be causing this? I'm fearing that it might be a device security thing on Android, because why else would it play the first few times?

Here is my code for clicking the button

    void PlayChordClicked(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
         DependencyService.Get<IAudio>().PlayAudioFile(myMp3);
    }

Everything else is exactly as copied from the tutorial. Thanks!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1379

Answers (1)

Team. Coco
Team. Coco

Reputation: 221

With help from Gusman in the comments, I figured out that I was most likely crashing the app by not disposing of the MediaPlayer after using it.

I added these few lines in the Android "PlayAudioFile" method and it did the trick

player.Completion += delegate
{
    player.Release();
    player.Dispose();
};

Upvotes: 4

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