Streaming Audio from A URL in Android using MediaPlayer

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I ve been trying to stream mp3 s over http using Android s built in MediaPlayer class  The documentation would suggest to me that this should be as easy as    MediaPlayer mp   new MediaPlayer    mp setDataSource URL OF FILE   mp prepare    mp start      However I am getting the following repeatedly  I have tried different URLs as well  Please don t tell me that streaming doesn t work on mp3 s   E PlayerDriver    31   Command PLAYER SET DATA SOURCE completed with an error or info PVMFErrNotSupported W PlayerDriver    31   PVMFInfoErrorHandlingComplete E MediaPlayer   198   error  1  -4  E MediaPlayer   198   start called in state 0 E MediaPlayer   198   error  -38  0  E MediaPlayer   198   Error  1 -4  E MediaPlayer   198   Error  -38 0    Any help much appreciated  thanks S

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I ve had the same error as you have and it turned out that there was nothing wrong with the code  The problem was that the webserver was sending the wrong Content-Type header   Try wireshark or something similar to see what content-type the webserver is sending

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simple Media Player with streaming example For xml part you need one button with id button1 and two images in your drawable folder with name button pause and button play and please don t forget to add the internet permission in your manifest   public class MainActivity extends Activity   private Button btn         help to toggle between play and pause      private boolean playPause  private MediaPlayer mediaPlayer         remain false till media is not completed  inside OnCompletionListener make it true      private boolean intialStage   true     Override protected void onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState        super onCreate savedInstanceState       setContentView R layout activity main       btn    Button  findViewById R id button1       mediaPlayer   new MediaPlayer        mediaPlayer setAudioStreamType AudioManager STREAM MUSIC       btn setOnClickListener pausePlay        Override public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu Menu menu           Inflate the menu  this adds items to the action bar if it is present      getMenuInflater   inflate R menu activity main  menu       return true     private OnClickListener pausePlay   new OnClickListener           Override     public void onClick View v               TODO Auto-generated method stub            TODO Auto-generated method stub          if   playPause                btn setBackgroundResource R drawable button pause               if  intialStage                  new Player                            execute  http   www virginmegastore me Library Music CD 001214 Tracks Track1 mp3                else                   if   mediaPlayer isPlaying                        mediaPlayer start                              playPause   true            else               btn setBackgroundResource R drawable button play               if  mediaPlayer isPlaying                    mediaPlayer pause                playPause   false                            preparing mediaplayer will take sometime to buffer the content so prepare it inside the background thread and starting it on UI thread      author piyush         class Player extends AsyncTask lt String  Void  Boolean gt        private ProgressDialog progress        Override     protected Boolean doInBackground String    params               TODO Auto-generated method stub         Boolean prepared          try                mediaPlayer setDataSource params 0                 mediaPlayer setOnCompletionListener new OnCompletionListener                       Override                 public void onCompletion MediaPlayer mp                           TODO Auto-generated method stub                     intialStage   true                      playPause false                      btn setBackgroundResource R drawable button play                       mediaPlayer stop                        mediaPlayer reset                                                  mediaPlayer prepare                prepared   true            catch  IllegalArgumentException e                   TODO Auto-generated catch block             Log d  IllegarArgument   e getMessage                 prepared   false              e printStackTrace              catch  SecurityException e                   TODO Auto-generated catch block             prepared   false              e printStackTrace              catch  IllegalStateException e                   TODO Auto-generated catch block             prepared   false              e printStackTrace              catch  IOException e                   TODO Auto-generated catch block             prepared   false              e printStackTrace                      return prepared              Override     protected void onPostExecute Boolean result               TODO Auto-generated method stub         super onPostExecute result           if  progress isShowing                  progress cancel                      Log d  Prepared          result           mediaPlayer start             intialStage   false             public Player             progress   new ProgressDialog MainActivity this               Override     protected void onPreExecute                TODO Auto-generated method stub         super onPreExecute            this progress setMessage  Buffering               this progress show               Override protected void onPause            TODO Auto-generated method stub     super onPause        if  mediaPlayer    null            mediaPlayer reset            mediaPlayer release            mediaPlayer   null

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Android MediaPlayer doesn t support streaming of MP3 natively until 2 2  In older versions of the OS it appears to only stream 3GP natively  You can try the pocketjourney code  although it s old  there s a new version here  and I had trouble making it sticky     it would stutter whenever it refilled the buffer    The NPR News app for Android is open source and uses a local proxy server to handle MP3 streaming in versions of the OS before 2 2  You can see the relevant code in lines 199-216  r94  here  http   code google com p npr-android-app source browse Npr src org npr android news PlaybackService java r 7cf2352b5c3c0fbcdc18a5a8c67d836577e7e8e3  And this is the StreamProxy class  http   code google com p npr-android-app source browse Npr src org npr android news StreamProxy java r e4984187f45c39a54ea6c88f71197762dbe10e72  The NPR app is also still getting the  error  -38  0   sometimes while streaming  This may be a threading issue or a network change issue  Check the issue tracker for updates

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No call mp start with an OnPreparedListener to avoid the zero state i the log

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Looking my projects     https   github com master255 ImmortalPlayer http FTP support  One thread to read  send and save to cache data  Most simplest way and most fastest work  Complex logic - best way  https   github com master255 VideoViewCache Simple Videoview with cache  Two threads for play and save data  Bad logic  but if you need then use this

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Use     mediaplayer setAudioStreamType AudioManager STREAM MUSIC    mediaplayer prepareAsync     mediaplayer setOnPreparedListener new MediaPlayer OnPreparedListener            Override       public void onPrepared MediaPlayer mp              mediaplayer start

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I guess that you are trying to play an  pls directly or something similar   try this out   1  the code  mediaPlayer   MediaPlayer create this  Uri parse  http   vprbbc streamguys net 80 vprbbc24 mp3     mediaPlayer start      2  the  pls file  This URL is from BBC just as an example  It was an  pls file that on linux i downloaded with  wget http   foo bar file pls   and then i opened with vim  use your favorite editor    and i ve seen the real URLs inside this file  Unfortunately not all of the  pls are plain text like that   I ve read that 1 6 would not support streaming mp3 over http  but  i ve just tested the obove code with android 1 6 and 2 2 and didn t have any issue    good luck

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