I have an Activity that plays a brief OGG "pop" sound effect when bubbles pop. To keep it fast and to ensure I can play several pops, I create four MediaPlayer instances. I synchronize access to a pool of instances, so I can play up to four pops at once. Once a sound completes, I call seekTo(0) and return the MediaPlayer instance to my pool.
Here is a rough sketch of the code: // when the activity resumes... for (int i=0; i<4; i++) { MediaPlayer mp = MediaPlayer.create(context, R.raw.pop); mp.setOnCompletionListener(this); mp.setVolume(1f, 1f); players.add(mp); // put into a pool of available players } // when a bubble pops... MediaPlayer mp = ...get player instance from the pool if (mp != null) { mp.start(); // works! plays the pop sound } // implement the OnCompletionListener interface public void onCompletion(MediaPlayer mp) { // seek to the start so I can play the sound fast the next time mp.seekTo(0); ....return the MediaPlayer to the pool } Here is the problem. The pops all work so long as my game is active. But if I let it sit there for just a few seconds, I see this in the LogCat console: (on my G1 phone) AudioHardwareMSM72xx Going to standby Once this happens, the next several calls to MediaPlayer's start() method play nothing...but they do cause the audio hardware to wake up again, so then my sounds eventually (after a few seconds) start playing again. My question is, how do I prevent the AudioHardwareMSM72xx from going to standby mode while my Activity is active? One hacky idea...I could loop a continuous sound at extremely low volume level in another MediaPlayer instance to force it to stay awake. That's not appealing to me. Ideas? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---