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Lawrence Gimenez
Lawrence Gimenez

Reputation: 3255

Playing Audio from Cache Directory

When playing audio from sdcard, MediaPlayer plays the file. But when playing from getCacheDir() it is an error. Is my conclusion right that MediaPlayer can't play files from getCacheDir() ?

Here's a code snippet:

private void startPlaying(String asAudioFileName) {
    File fFile = new File(VocaPreview.this.getCacheDir() + "/" + asAudioFileName.toLowerCase() + ".mp3");

    if(!fFile.isFile()) {
        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "File not found", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    } else {
        try {
            FileInputStream fisAudio = new FileInputStream(fFile);
            //fmpAudio.setDataSource(VocaPreview.this.getCacheDir() + "/" +  asAudioFileName.toLowerCase() + ".mp3");
            //fmpAudio.setDataSource("/sdcard/2.mp3");

            fmpAudio.setDataSource(fisAudio.getFD());
            fmpAudio.prepare();
            fmpAudio.start();
        } catch(IOException ioe) {
            Log.e("START PLAYING", ioe.getMessage());
        }
    }
}

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3060

Answers (2)

Lawrence Gimenez
Lawrence Gimenez

Reputation: 3255

UPDATE: I just read from this Blog and solved my problem, inorder for me to play audio inside a cache, I added this line and that's it. Hope this helps anyone in the future. Here is the method.

File file = new File(filepath)
file.setReadable(true, false);

Upvotes: 7

bk138
bk138

Reputation: 3088

Here's a function that also works on API levels < 9:

Runtime.getRuntime().exec("chmod 644 "+ outputFile.getAbsolutePath());

Upvotes: 0

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