Android :: Detect Another Application Started Playing Audio
Aug 26, 2010
My music application constantly plays music in the background, however I'd like to be able to detect when another application starts playing audio (such as the YouTube app) so I can pause/mute/stop the audio in my application. This will allow a user to continue browsing the web whilst listening to music, but then if they wish to watch a video at any point, they can do so without audio conflict.
One solution might be to listen for a broadcast which states when an application begins using the AudioManager. Does such an Intent Action exist? Edit: As in the answer provided below, there appears to be a method of detecting the loss of audio focus in 2.2 with AudioManager.OnAudioFocusChangeListener.
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Jan 19, 2009
I want a countdowntimer to halt on a menu and also when the user goes from that menu to another activity. When the user comes back from that activity or when the menu is closed, the timer should still halt. However when the user went to the home screen and clicks on the icon again, I want the timer to restart. So my question is, is there a way to detect if the user has just opened your application, or if the user comes back from another activity or menu?
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Jun 25, 2010
I have small simple Service and big MainActivity with UI. Service is called periodically from AlarmManager. My Service need to know if MainActivity is on the screen and inform MainActivity about state changing.
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Oct 19, 2010
My HTC desire started playing an mp3 file last night. It was on a shelf and I was watching tv and the music just came on. Am stumped as to why Any one have any ideas?
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Jun 17, 2012
It'll just start playing a song (always the same one) out of nowhere. At 4 am this morning it brought my wife and I out of dead sleep, can't have that. Also, while the song is playing, it isn't shown in the music player at all; it's like a ghost song and we can't figure out how to stop it without turning off phone. If we let the song play out, no other song follows. We just use the music player that came with the phone and get some of the music from Droid Tunes. I just downloaded a song using the Droid tunes and as soon as it was done, this ghost song played. We use AVG free virus on the phone and it doesn't catch anything.
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May 18, 2009
Is there any way to tell if an app is currently using the speaker (playing music or generating other sounds)? Specifically, I'd like to detect if an alarm clock is going off (not only the one that comes with the system, but any alarm clock), but I'll settle for simply knowing if any sounds are coming out of the speaker.
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May 22, 2009
I am using a MediaPlayer instance in order to stream audio files from an Internet location. The audio player is in a separate activity. The user can select from a list of audio files and come to this activity which plays the audio.Now the user might go back to the previous activity (with the list)and select another audio file. In this case, I want to stop any other audio that is playing and start playing the new audio which was selected.Is there any way I can know whether an audio file is playing without having to hold on to the MediaPlayer object?
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Apr 9, 2009
the opencore can not play the audio of wma. is it right? and the total time of the wma file can not be find in the trackbrowseractivity. who know why?
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Feb 15, 2010
I want to play music from online mp3 link.I am reading the music data into a stream and trying to play it using audio track.But itz giving only noise.No music i could listen.here buffer is the audio data i am reading into.Same buffer I can play in MediaPlayer,,,But i could not play in audio track.
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Oct 13, 2009
I can capture an audio stream from the mic, but can I capture the currently playing audio stream?
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Aug 18, 2010
Can we play the audio(amr file) to the Bluetooth headset(no A2DP support) by using android 2.1/2.2 version APIs? If so can you suggest me which API I have to use to do the same?
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Sep 25, 2010
I'm trying to very quickly port over an html application with plays sound (with soundmanager2) to a native android app using WebView. From my research, I haven't seen any evidence that sound, such as mp3s, can be played via javascript or any other methods using WebView.
My goal now is to quickly port over the html app and then eventually create a truely native application without using WebViews.
If anyone has been able to successfully implement playing audio using WebViews and Javascript or if this is just not possible at this time.
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Jan 30, 2009
I want to accept incoming calls and play an audio file for the caller. Is there a possibility of playing an audio file during a phonecall, so that the caller hears a wav- file? It seems to me that nothing is possible during a phone call since release 1.0. Hope this is getting better in the next release.
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Jan 3, 2010
My self-teaching project is a small application which plays an audio news stream. To be effective, the application really needs to interrupt any currently playing media players (eg: Last FM, Imeem, music player, Spotify etc).I don't know what will be playing or what application will be playing it, but I want to ask them all to pause until I've done. Sounds rather bold, I know, but it must be possible, because when there's an incoming call, that's basically what happens.Can I send a message to all audio players asking them to pause for a moment? Could I spoof an incoming call, just for the time it takes?
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Jun 15, 2010
How do I set up an audiofile to play when a user touches an image.Where should I store the audio file and what code should I use to actually play the file?I don't want to bring up the MediaPlayer interface or anything like that.
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Jun 18, 2010
I have a javascript that plays audio in the browser, using the html5 <audio> tag. It works fine in the iPhone browser, but not in Android. (Testing using a htc desire with android 2.1.) Anyone know why?By the way, I am also trying to enlarge the audio button that shows up in the iphone (the default one is quite small), with no luck so far - would be grateful for any ideas!
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Oct 1, 2010
I think I should know this, but my mind has gone blank. I'm making an app that has a few hundred small sound files and I want it to play a certain file dependent on a String I pass to the function. Where I hit the brick wall is getting the resId of the sound file.
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Jul 1, 2009
My application is making call from application. Now I want to play some audio on speaker when the caller will receive call. So can some one tell me will i have to play audio in new thread or I will have to do some change? Can someone give me any code snippet?
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Jul 5, 2010
I would like to find an media player that plays videos but when I minimize or multitask to another app I want the videos audio to keep playing like pandora does. The reason for this is bcuz I rip videos off of youtube to mainly listen to the music.
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Nov 27, 2009
I am trying to make a very simple radio player for Android and I cannot get the audio streaming to work. In my latest attempt it plays for about 1 second and stops for some streams and it doesnt work at all for some other streams. Logcat doesn't give much useful information to me. I am testing on HTC Hero (Android 1.5).
If I hook the completion and buffer events I see the audio gets a complete event but it keeps buffering. Is there anything wrong with the code below? Should I be able to stream the the audio streams below? Is there a complete example somewhere of a working radio streaming?................
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Aug 7, 2009
Is it possible to play audio over an active phone call, so the other end can hear it?
For example: A and B are talking on the phone. A presses a button that pulls audio from a resource and plays it over the phone call to B.
If so, what libraries should I look into? If not, is this something that could become accessible on rooted phones? (Of course, only other rooted phones would be able to use the application then...)
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Apr 20, 2010
I want to play an audio file on a voice call as following:
The application initiates a call from device X to device Y
When Y replies application on device X should inject an audio file in the stream of the call so device Y hears this audio file.
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Aug 14, 2010
I would like my app to do something when another application is opened.
The current approach I have taken is to create a broadcast receiver that monitors all
android.intent.action.MAIN
events, but either I am not doing it correctly or the way I am going about it is incorrect. The section of the manifest looks like this code...
I included the launcher category just as a test. GetApp currently is only set to make a log entry when called.
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Nov 18, 2009
I have a activity which is called from another activity as an intent... This activity loads and starts playing a audio file. All is good - that much works. The activity also has a "stop" button and that stops the audio from playing - that is also fine.
But how do I stop the file from playing if the user uses the back button to leave the activity without clicking on the "Stop" button?
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Nov 16, 2010
I have a requirement where I need to play an audio file in receiver mode(earpiece).I am not sure whether higher versions of Android SDK supports this receiver mode.I went through some links which said about 1.5/1.6 having changes in these Audio APIs and hence not sure.
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Oct 16, 2010
Hey, I have a problem with android programing when I try to record and then play the file that was just recored. I can both record and play the sound but the quality stinks. Its not just bad is really hard to listen to and sound abit like its a computer generated voice. I use the andriod SDK-emulator. The code that sets up the recording looks like this;
MediaRecorder recorder = new MediaRecorder();
recorder.setAudioSource(MediaRecorder.AudioSource.MIC);
recorder.setOutputFormat(MediaRecorder.OutputFormat.RAW_AMR);
recorder.setAudioEncoder(MediaRecorder.AudioEncoder.AMR_NB);
recorder.setOutputFile(path);
recorder.prepare();
recorder.start();
And the code playing the file later looks like this;
MediaPlayer mp = new MediaPlayer(); mp.reset();
mp.setDataSource(path); mp.prepare(); mp.start();
I don't know what part that makes the audio file sound really bad or if its just the emulator that makes it bad and that it would work on a real phone.
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Dec 14, 2009
I'm using the SoundPool to play a series of small audio clips and am having issues with the audio when it starts. I have the audio attached to a button press. When I press the button mulitple times the tick persists. I was wondering if this was the audio file itself or is there something I need to do differently with the SoundPool other than play simply play the clip. These are .ogg files I created using Audacity. When I play them in my dekstop media player, they sound fine.
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Nov 4, 2009
Did anyone try playing audio/video through http/rtsp. I am having a problem with either of the approach.... I am getting an error Command PLAYER_INIT completed with PVMFError I some cases I got Command PLAYER_INIT completed with PVMFErrorContentInvalidForProgressiveDownoload.
Can some one explain what is the problem. The code snippet I am using is given below. Code...
The code works fine when I say mVideoView.setVideoPath("/sdcard/vv.3gp"); but not able to play if I give a rtsp/http urls. In case of http it says PVMFErrorContentInvalid for progressive download.
Can some body tell me what is the problem. Can you please post the code if someone has been successful in playing audio/video through http/rtsp.
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Mar 15, 2010
I have a button that plays an audio file on its click listener. If the button is clicked again and again while the audio file is being played then the app crashes. What's the solution?
Here is some code for reference...
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Nov 16, 2009
I'd like to write sthg like a logger for my Android phone where I log whenever an application/activity is started respectively created. So it's not only about my own stuff but about all the stuff that gets started on the phone. Is there sthg like an intent flying around or any kind of stuff that I could catch?
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