I'm actually using a dynamically generated path based on what the OS says is the user's partition, so it's unlikely that the path is incorrect. What i discovered is that the MediaPlayer refuses to play a file in a custom directory under the apps external directory, but will play it if I put it in the cache dir. The difference between he two is minimal. e.g.
This *will not* work: <external>/Android/data/my.package.name/custom/audio This *will* work: <external>/Android/data/my.package.name/cache/audio The only difference is the private directory (that is still world readable) at the same level in the same parent directory. Personally I think limiting the audio source for the MediaPlayer like that is "broken" in the first place, but this seems to be an issue that doesn't match what the documentation says. - Brill Pappin On 2013-02-17, at 2:39 AM, Jeff Sharkey <[email protected]> wrote: > Starting in Android 4.2, processes may have different views of the > filesystem depending on which user they're running as. For example, > "/sdcard/foo.mp3" could refer to different files for different users. > > To correctly disambiguate filesystem paths, you'll need to open the > file in your app process and pass the FileDescriptor to the > mediaserver (which is shared between all users on a device). > Something like this should work: > > MediaPlayer player; > FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(myFile); > try { > player.setDataSource(fis.getFD()); > } finally { > fis.close(); > } > > It sounds like the setDataSource(String path) method needs to be > fixed; tracking in 7962739. > > j -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
