media-player

I'm having a crack at using the MediaPlayer object and not having much success. If I add a sound asset to my raw folder and call it using the int value within R, it works fine. But I want to be able to pull things off of url. According to all of the documentation I've read setDataSource() should accept a string param with a url to a file. I keep getting an IO exception on the prepare() statement. I've even tried copying the file locally and still no dice. Anyone have any ideas? MediaPlayer mp = new MediaPlayer(); try { mp.setDataSource("http://www.urltofile.com/file.mp3"); mp.prepare(); mp

I have android G1 firmware 1.6, I am trying to record voice from the app with the follow code. MediaRecorder recorder = new MediaRecorder(); recorder.setAudioSource(MediaRecorder.AudioSource.MIC); recorder.setOutputFormat(MediaRecorder.OutputFormat.THREE_GPP); recorder.setAudioEncoder(MediaRecorder.AudioEncoder.AMR_NB); recorder.setOutputFile(PATH_NAME); recorder.prepare(); recorder.start(); my manifest.xml has: <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO" /> I got: 09-23 14:41:05.531: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1718): Uncaught handler: thread main exiting due to uncaught

I have a mp3 file in my android mobile, lets it's a xyz.mp3 somewhere in my sdcard. How to play it through my application? Simply you can use MediaPlayer and play the audio file. Check out this nice example for playing Audio: public void audioPlayer(String path, String fileName){ //set up MediaPlayer MediaPlayer mp = new MediaPlayer(); try { mp.setDataSource(path + File.separator + fileName); mp.prepare(); mp.start(); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } Suv @Niranjan, If you are using a raw file from res/raw folder, ie., reading a file stored inside the project, we can use: