Streaming AAC audio with Android

Question

As I understand it, Android will only play AAC format audio if it\'s encoded as MPEG-4 or 3GPP.

I\'m able to play AAC audio encoded as M4A when it\'s local to the ap

Answer 1

I tried it too but I could not find out the solution!

At the last Google I/O I saw something that helped me a lot. It is Extending from MediaPlayer and improve a lot of things! Take a look.

EXOPLAYER CAN HELP YOU A LOT

Check this part of the example:

private static final int BUFFER_SEGMENT_SIZE = 64 * 1024;
private static final int BUFFER_SEGMENT_COUNT = 256;
...

// String with the url of the radio you want to play
String url = getRadioUrl();
Uri radioUri = Uri.parse(url);
// Settings for exoPlayer
Allocator allocator = new DefaultAllocator(BUFFER_SEGMENT_SIZE);
String userAgent = Util.getUserAgent(context, "ExoPlayerDemo");
DataSource dataSource = new DefaultUriDataSource(context, null, userAgent);
ExtractorSampleSource sampleSource = new ExtractorSampleSource(
radioUri, dataSource, allocator, BUFFER_SEGMENT_SIZE * BUFFER_SEGMENT_COUNT);
audioRenderer = new MediaCodecAudioTrackRenderer(sampleSource);
// Prepare ExoPlayer
exoPlayer.prepare(audioRenderer);

EXOPLAYER- I can play anything from streamings (video and audio)!

LET ME KNOW IF YOU NEED HELP TO IMPLEMENT IT! :)