Problems playing sounds with Android MediaPlayer

Question

I'm having some weird problems playing sounds with the Android MediaPlayer.

In my View constructor, I'm doing this:

    clickSound = MediaPlayer.create(context, R.raw.ggclick);
    rightSound = MediaPlayer.create(context, R.raw.right);
    wrongSound = MediaPlayer.create(context, R.raw.wrong);

and then when I want to play the sound:

if(prefs.getBoolean("playClick", true))
    clickSound.start();

The files are all very short WAV files, and this used to work. I upgraded my phone to 2.2 (FRG83G) recently, and I think that's when the clickSound stopped working. The other two still work.

I tried switching the click sound to ogg, and then all three worked. Just for consistency, I switched the other two to ogg, and again the click sound stopped working, but the other two played successfully.

Does anyone know what's going on here?

Do you get any error messages? It might be that the clicksound is just too short to be played in the 2.2 mediaplayer in the format you have it. — Eric Nordvik

Regis St-Gelais Regis St-Gelais · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-24T12:19:18

here is my fonction to play sounds from a raw resource:

protected MediaPlayer _mediaPlayer;  

public void playFromResource(int resId)     
     {
     if (_mediaPlayer != null)
         {
         _mediaPlayer.reset();
         }
     _mediaPlayer = MediaPlayer.create(this, resId);
     _mediaPlayer.start();
     }

Problems playing sounds with Android MediaPlayer

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