Android play sounds

[Michael Doub]

This is very late in the startup sequence.  The point of the app is a timer for BBQing so we are talking a minute or two before the first alarm depending on what is cooking.  ;-)

I am thinking that it is a timing related bug in the engine.   I ended up testing for "no sound support" and issuing a second play command.   I gathered statistics and it is only ever failing on the first play attempt.   I am wondering if it is related to the sound being included in the apk package and in the engine folder rather than being in the documents folder.  (from the image performance discussion)

-= Mike 


On Mar 27, 2012, at 5:29 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> On 3/27/12 2:18 PM, Michael Doub wrote:
>> I am building a android timer application.  The sound file "AC.mp3"
>> is located in a folder "Data".   Within the standalone builder I
>> added the "Data" folder under the copy files tab which now displays:
>> "Data/*".  All of this seems to work just fine, however the sound
>> file is not played on the first play call.  The sound is successfully
>> played on all subsequent calls.
>> 
>> The result returned on the first play call is "no sound support"
>> which is different from what is specified in the Android release
>> notes.  So I think we have a documentation error at the very least.
> 
> When in the startup sequence is the first sound played? Is it before the stack finishes loading? It may be that sound support isn't initialized yet when the first "play" happens.
> 
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