MediaPlayer randomly stops on Android 4.4 (19)

Question

My app is streaming audio fine on all devices except Nexus 5. On Nexus 5, the MediaPlayer randomly stops playing. Not sure if the changes with respect to Loudness (http://d

Answer 1

Run into almost the same problem recently: MediaPlayer works perfectly on Android 4.3 and below, but fails to play the same videos on Android 4.4.

Decided to switch to vitamio library and now my app works on 4.4 as well. vitamio API is identical to the MediaPlayer's one, so the migration was quite easy.

But this solution still has some drawbacks:

• You have to buy a license if you are not an individual developer
• The app size will be increased ~11 megabytes