Media Player start stop start

Question

I am making a new android sound application. I made a clickable button to play sound when I click on it. But I also want it to stop playing sound when I click for the second

Answer 1

In my experience when I need to play multiple times and I may need to stop one play to start another play, (like in the case of multiple buttons), I just create another player, making sure that I release the resources for the previous one. To stop just use

mediaPlayer.stop(); 

But for play use something like this (adapt the logging to your specific needs) to create/recreate your player:

private boolean createMediaPlayer()
{
    if (mediaPlayer!=null)
    {
        if(mediaPlayer.isPlaying())
        {
            mediaPlayer.stop();
            mediaPlayer.reset();
            mediaPlayer.release();
            mediaPlayer=null;
        }

    }
    mediaPlayer = new MediaPlayer();
    mediaPlayer.setVolume(1f, 1f);
    try
    {
        mediaPlayer.setAudioStreamType(Interop.PRIMARY_STREAM);
        mediaPlayer.setDataSource(m_soundFile);
        mediaPlayer.prepare();
        return true;
        // Interop.logDebug(TAG + "-loadAudio: SUCCESS" + m_soundFile);
    } catch (Exception e)
    {
        Interop.logError(TAG + "-LoadAudio for Clic Sound: audioPlayer prepare failed for current file: " + m_soundFile);
        Interop.logError(TAG + "-Exception: " , e);
        return false;
    }
}

and than use

if (createMediaPlayer())
    mediaPlayer.start();

this will ensure proper release of the resources used by the media player.