get pcm data from mp3 file in android

Question

My question is simple. How do I get PCM data from the mp3 file?

Now I found only ne way to get PCM bytes from the song, I loaded and played mp3 by MediaPlayer<

Answer 1

I am using the mpg123 native library for decoding my MP3. It decoded into PCM data in shorts not bytes. I am sure you can do the conversions. The decoder is very fast since it uses the NDK.

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Also,

I am not sure how big your files are but I would stream the bytes into the AudioTrack instead of putting the whole song in one big array.