ICS can't loop audio seamlessly with more than one core, when using MediaPlayer->setLooping(true). This is a major bug that is causing problems for my applications. I have a sample project below demonstrating the issue.
I have included a link to a very simple eclipse project that you can use to test for the setLooping bug. This bug doesn’t seamlessly loop an audio file. It plays a simple sine wave that can be used to easily detect if your device is displaying the bug. I have also provided the direct like to the apk file as well. I feel this bug is an important bug to get fixed. Although this is a simple example, it has real world problems including: *Looped music playback *Sound machine type applications *Game sample loops I feel this bug hurts the Android platform and encourages the ‘fragmentation’ fault argument. Some devices/firmware don’t present the bug while others do. For example, almost every recent Motorola device has the bug, but most HTC devices don’t. The Xoom shipped without the bug, but a firmware update introduced the bug (I don’t know which version introduced it). I have an application, SleepyTime, which used to be available on all devices but now isn’t available on many devices on the Android Market because the bug is present on those devices. This creates a bad user experience for the user because: *A user on phone A can get the app, but a user on phone B may not be able to. *A user with phone X paid for the app, then upgrades to phone Z, which can’t get the app because this device has the bug, and now doesn’t understand why they can’t download the application they paid for. To anyone experiencing this bug, please run this application on any device you have access to and report the Android version, kernel, device name, and weather the bug is present. We need to give the engineers as much information as possible if we want this to get resolved. Please get as many people as possible to start this bug to give it more visibility. Eclipse Project: http://cwssoft.com/downloads/LoopBug.zip APK: http://cwssoft.com/downloads/LoopBug.apk Here are my test results: ======================================== HTC G2 Android Version: 2.3.4 Kernel: 2.6.35.10-g96de068 Status: Pass ======================================== Motorla Xoom Android Version: 3.2.1 Kernel: 2.6.36.3-g111d827 Status: FAIL!!!! ======================================== HTC Nexus One Android Version: 2.3.6 Kernel: 2.6.35.7-59465-g42bad32 Status: Pass ======================================== Kindle Fire Android Version: N/A Kernel: N/A Status: Pass ======================================== Logitech Revue Android Version: 3.1 Kernel: N/A Status: Fail!!! http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=18756 Chuck Syperski CWS Software LLC -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
