How to make streaming with .pls files in android?

Question

I want to play the .pls file for my Android application using this URL http://playerservices.streamtheworld.com/pls/VIRGINRADIO_DUBAIAAC.pls I know that it is not possible to play .pls files using MediaPlayer directly. So I parsed this file using the Pls parser and set each URL of the media player. But it will not work. The error error (1, -2147483648) also displayed.

 public class PlayListParser { private BufferedReader reader; public PlayListParser(String url) { try { URL plsFileUrl = new URL(url.trim()); URLConnection urlConnection = plsFileUrl.openConnection(); // InputStream input = new BufferedInputStream(urlConnection.openStream()); InputStream iStream = urlConnection.getInputStream(); this.reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(iStream)); // this.reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file), 1024); } catch (MalformedURLException e) { Log.e("PlayListParser", "Got MalformedURLException = " + e.getMessage()); } catch (IOException e) { Log.e("PlayListParser", "Got IOException = " + e.getMessage()); } } public List<String> getUrls() { LinkedList<String> urls = new LinkedList<String>(); while (true) { try { String line = reader.readLine(); if (line == null) { break; } String url = parseLine(line); if (url != null && !url.equals("")) { urls.add(url); } } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } return urls; } private String parseLine(String line) { if (line == null) { return null; } String trimmed = line.trim(); if (trimmed.indexOf("http") >= 0) { return trimmed.substring(trimmed.indexOf("http")); } return ""; } } PlayListParser playListParser = new PlayListParser(URL_PLS_STREAMING); List<String > playList = playListParser.getUrls(); if(playList != null && ! playList.isEmpty()){ for(String url : playList){ MediaPlayer mediaPlayer = new MediaPlayer(); try { mediaPlayer.setDataSource(playList.get(0));//"http://stream2.streamq.net:8020/"); mediaPlayer.setAudioStreamType(AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC); mediaPlayer.prepareAsync(); mediaPlayer.setOnPreparedListener(new OnPreparedListener() { @Override public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) { mp.start(); } }); //mediaPlayer.prepare(); } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) { Log.e("MainActivity","Got IllegalArgumentException = " + e.getMessage()); } catch (IllegalStateException e) { Log.e("MainActivity","Got IllegalStateException = " + e.getMessage()); } catch (IOException e) { Log.e("MainActivity","Got IOException = " + e.getMessage()); } } } 

How can I play this .pls file? I could not find a good link about this. I also want to play, pause and rewind these files.

Thanks at Advance

Answer 1

Get url from .pls file

This will return a URL, for example http://stream2.streamq.net:8020

 package com.direct.radio.global; import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStreamReader; import java.net.MalformedURLException; import java.net.URL; import java.net.URLConnection; import java.util.LinkedList; import android.content.Context; import android.util.Log; public class GetStreamingUrl { private static String LOGTAG = "GetStreamingUrl"; private Context mContext; public GetStreamingUrl(Context context) { Log.i(LOGTAG, "call to constructor"); this.mContext = context; } public LinkedList<String> getStreamingUrl(String url) { Log.i(LOGTAG, "get streaming url"); final BufferedReader br; String murl = null; LinkedList<String> murls = null; try { URLConnection mUrl = new URL(url).openConnection(); br = new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader(mUrl.getInputStream())); murls = new LinkedList<String>(); while (true) { try { String line = br.readLine(); if (line == null) { break; } murl = parseLine(line); if (murl != null && !murl.equals("")) { murls.add(murl); } } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } } catch (MalformedURLException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } catch (IOException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } Log.i(LOGTAG, "url to stream :" + murl); return murls; } private String parseLine(String line) { if (line == null) { return null; } String trimmed = line.trim(); if (trimmed.indexOf("http") >= 0) { return trimmed.substring(trimmed.indexOf("http")); } return ""; } } 

Activity_Player.java or Service_Player.java

You can write this code according to your needs. Define this method

 LinkedList<String> urls; private LinkedList<String> fGetPlayableUrl(String mPls) { GetStreamingUrl oGetStreamingUrl = new GetStreamingUrl(Activity_Splash.this); urls = oGetStreamingUrl.getStreamingUrl(mPls); return urls; } 

Here fGetPlayableUrl(String mPls) passes the .pls URL. You now have a streaming URL.

 MediaPlayer mMediaPlayer = new MediaPlayer(); 

Now pass the url

 mMediaPlayer.setDataSource(urls.toString()); mMediaPlayer.prepareAsync(); mMediaPlayer.start();