Using AudioTrack in Android to play a WAV file

Question

I\'m working with Android, trying to make my AudioTrack application play a Windows .wav file (Tada.wav). Frankly, it shouldn\'t be this hard, but I\'m hearing a lot of stra

Answer 1

Are you skipping the first 44 bytes of the file before you dump the rest of the file's data into the buffer? The first 44 bytes are the WAVE header and they would sound like random noise if you tried to play them.

Also, are you sure you are creating the AudioTrack with the same properties as the WAVE you are trying to play (sample rate, bit rate, number of channels, etc)? Windows actually does a good job of giving this information to you in the File Properties page: