Good point, I forgot about the MediaScanner.
One thing to note about using ACTION_VIEW is although you get the nice
mediaplayer UI it doesn't keep playing when you change Activities e.g.
go back to the home screen.
On Mar 31, 3:57 pm, Jean-Baptiste Queru <j...@android.com> wrote:
> No problem playing an MP3 from the SD card. You should be able to
> ACTION_VIEW the file:/// URI directly, or invoke the media scanner on
> it and ACTION_VIEW the resulting content:// URI (added bonus for the
> second method is that the file will immediately show up in the music
> player as well).
>
> JBQ
>
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:08 AM, Streets Of Boston
>
>
>
> <flyingdutc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > This is just copying the file.
> > The question remains if you can play it or not... :=)
>
> > I have not looked into this at all, but DRM could prevent the mp3 from
> > playing.
>
> > On Mar 31, 9:55 am, iDeveloper <ideveloper...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Thanks a ton. Didn't know android allowed saving to mp3 directly
> >> unlike an iphone.
>
> >> On 31-Mar-09, at 5:32 PM, MrChaz wrote:
>
> >> > Sure,
> >> > Something like
>
> >> > //Where the file comes from
> >> > URL sourceURL = new URL("address");
> >> > URLConnection conn = sourceURL.openConnection();
>
> >> > InputStream inStream = sourceURL.openStream();
>
> >> > // Where the file is going to go
> >> > FileOutputStream outStream= new FileOutputStream("sdcard/file.mp3");
>
> >> > //a read buffer
> >> > byte[] bytes = new byte[20480];
>
> >> > //read the first chunk
> >> > int readBytes = file.read(bytes);
>
> >> > //read the rest
> >> > while (readBytes > 0){
> >> > //Write the buffered chunk to the file
> >> > outStream.write(bytes, 0, readBytes);
> >> > readBytes = file.read(bytes);
> >> > }
> >> > inStream.close();
> >> > outStream.close();
>
> >> > should do it. I've typed that more or less by hand so it's missing
> >> > error checking etc.
>
> >> > On Mar 31, 8:10 am, idev <ideveloper...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> Hi
>
> >> >> I am able to stream an mp3 at real time on my android phone. I wanted
> >> >> to know if it is possible to save an mp3 file residing on a remote
> >> >> location to my SD card.
>
> >> >> Any heads up is greatly appreciated.
>
> >> >> Thanks.- Hide quoted text -
>
> >> - Show quoted text -
>
> --
> Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Queru
> Android Engineer, Google.
>
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> will likely get ignored or forwarded to a public forum with no further
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