You should use this:

MapLocationViewer mlv = (MapLocationViewer)this.findViewById(R.id.map_location_viewer);
MapView mp = mlv.getMapView();

I noticed you have a getter for the mapview in your MapLocationViewer which looks to be a java layout. Is there a way to call that getter? I’ve tried using

mv = (MapView)this.findViewById(R.id.map_location_viewer);

in the MapActivity class but since MapLocationViewer is a linear layout, it throws an error because it’s not a MapView. I mainly wanted to get the MapView so I can move to the user’s current gps location. Thanks!

you will try mp.reset();

This tutorial only supports single files downloads so you must have updated it to support multiple files. Look at how you’re handling the handoff between files. Seems like you are still writing to a file even though no data is being recieved.

You should only be writing to file what you read from the stream.

int numread = stream.read(buf);
…
out.write(buf, 0, numread);

Cheers,
Anthony

[quote]Are you saying that once you’ve downloaded the audio files, the final file residing on the device has gaps in the audio? [/quote]
Nope the files themselves were ok, but there is a gap which keeps getting bigger inbetween the stopping of a file and the starting up of the next one… So inbetween “chunks” (files in this case)…
I heard though that ogg would be faster thus completely removing those gaps, only my source is mp3 so is there some way, to your knwoledge, to encode mp3 to ogg in Android itself ?

I tried with mp.stop() and mp.release().

Still it is same.

Any other alternatives????

or else do you have any idea of converting audio to PCM and playing from AudioTrack class of Android?

mp.stop();
mp.release();

Instead of
mp.pause();
mp.reset();
mp.release();

It could be the mediaplayer resources are not getting released properly?

Thanks for the replies.
Using catDaaady’s player idea,I am able to play continously an Internet Radio.

But when i change the Internet Radio link url,file is getting downloaded,but i am not able to play once again,,MediaPlayers hang up without even showing error.

I am calling player(File f) from another thread and pause it when user clicks on another url,clear mediaplayers vector in clear() ,,and again start thread when file gets downloaded.

Please tell me the solution.

Here is what I am doing when i change url

public void player(File ff){
final File f = ff;
final String TAG = “**************************************setupplayer*****:”;
Log.i(TAG, “File ” + f.getAbsolutePath());
// Runnable r = new Runnable(){
// public void run(){
try{
MediaPlayer mp=new MediaPlayer();
try{
FileInputStream ins = new FileInputStream( f );
mp.setDataSource(ins.getFD());
mp.setAudioStreamType(AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC);
mp.setOnCompletionListener(playerlistener);
if ( ! started ){
mp.prepare();
} else {
//This will save us a few more seconds
mp.prepareAsync();
}
insertMedia(mp);
if ( ! started ){
startMediaPlayer();
}
}catch(Exception e){
Log.e(TAG, “:ERROR********:”+e.toString());
e.printStackTrace();
}

}catch(Exception e){
System.out.println(“********************ERROR IN PLAYER “+e);
e.printStackTrace();
}
// }
// };
// new Thread(r).start();
}

MediaPlayer.OnCompletionListener playerlistener = new MediaPlayer.OnCompletionListener () {
public void onCompletion(MediaPlayer mp){
onMediaPlayerCompletePlay(mp);
}
};

private void onMediaPlayerCompletePlay(MediaPlayer mp){
String TAG = “MediaPlayer.OnCompletionListener”;
Log.i(TAG, “Current size of mediaplayer list: ” + mediaplayers.size() );

MediaPlayer mp2 = getMedia();
if(mp2 != null)
mp2.start();
mp.release();
removefile();
}

public void insertMedia(MediaPlayer file){
///add file at last of vector
try{
mediaplayers.add(file);
available = true;
}catch(Exception e){
System.out.println(“EXCEPTION IN INSERTMEDIA”+e);
e.printStackTrace();

}

}

public MediaPlayer getMedia(){
try{
if(mediaplayers.size()<1){
available=false;
}

if(!available){
return null;
}
mediaplayers.remove(0);;

if(mediaplayers.size()<1){
return null;
}
}catch(Exception e){
System.out.println("EXCEPTION IN GETMEDIA"+e);
e.printStackTrace();
}
return mediaplayers.firstElement();
}

private void removefile (){

String TAG = "removefile ***:";
try{
File temp = new File(context.getCacheDir(),DOWNFILE + playedcounter);
Log.i(TAG, temp.getAbsolutePath());
temp.delete();
synchronized(this){
playedcounter++;
}
}catch(Exception e){
System.out.println("EXCEPTION IN REMOVEFILE"+e);
e.printStackTrace();
}
}

//Start first audio clip
private void startMediaPlayer() {
String TAG = "startMediaPlayer***:";
try{
//Grab out first media player
synchronized(this){
started = true;
MediaPlayer mp = mediaplayers.get(0);
mp.start();
}
}catch(Exception e){
System.out.println("EXCEPTION IN STARTMEDIAPLAYER"+e);
e.printStackTrace();
}

}

public void clear(){
String TAG = "CLEAR URL STREAMPLAYER***:";

try{
synchronized(this){
playedcounter = 1;
started = false;
available=false;
for(int i=0;i<mediaplayers.size();i++){
MediaPlayer mp=mediaplayers.get(i);
if(mp != null){
if( mp.isPlaying())
mp.pause();
mp.reset();
mp.release();
}
}

mediaplayers.removeAllElements();

}

}catch(Exception e){
Log.i(TAG, "ERROR CLEARING MEADIA PLAYERS : " + mediaplayers.size() );
e.printStackTrace();
}

My plan to getting around it is to implement some type of live stream-to-rtp converter. So the program will download a portion of audio, put it into a RTP packet, then send that off to the audio player.

I “think” this is how other apps are doing it. I haven’t had time to do this just yet. I noticed some links on this page that mention RTP. Maybe they point the way even though it is for video? I think sometime next month, after I add a different feature to my app, I will tackle this rtp thing. I will report back.