Play a sound file from the Internet at the touch of a button

Question

I am trying to play an audio file at the click of a button, but my audio URL comes from the Internet, for example, http://www.example.com/sound.mp3 . How to play when a button is pressed using Media Player.

Example:. This is a way to play a local file.

b.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { MediaPlayer mp = MediaPlayer.create(this, R.raw.mmmm); mp.start(); } }); 

I want to play this sound http://www.example.com/sound.mp3 introduce R.raw.mmmm without loading this sound.

Answer 1

Media Player has a greate function in android. You can handle all events that have occurred. So this is the code to play the file (either local or online url)

 String url = "http://........"; // your URL here MediaPlayer mediaPlayer = new MediaPlayer(); mediaPlayer.setAudioStreamType(AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC); mediaPlayer.setDataSource(url); mediaPlayer.prepareAsync(); //You can show progress dialog here untill it prepared to play mediaPlayer.setOnPreparedListener(new OnPreparedListener() { @Override public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) { //Now dismis progress dialog, Media palyer will start playing mp.start(); } }); mediaPlayer.setOnErrorListener(new OnErrorListener() { @Override public boolean onError(MediaPlayer mp, int what, int extra) { // dissmiss progress bar here. It will come here when MediaPlayer // is not able to play file. You can show error message to user return false; } }); 

Answer 2

If you want to play this sound locally, you must first download it.

You simply cannot “play anything from the Internet,” because the machine that plays this sound is your local machine. He must have a copy of MP3.

After that, there may be ways to start playback before the download is complete, but there will be a download anyway.

EDIT : AndroidDeveloper, in another answer on this page, provided you with information on how to make threads (+1!). This is consistent with what I said above, so it seems that there is a way to start playing before the download actually completes, even if this download happens at the end.