Thanks. And how do I stop the audio from playing if isMusicActive() returns true? Do I have to use the MediaPlayer instance? But the instance won't be in memory any longer as the activity has been exited once and a new instance of the activity created in order to come back.
Thanks again. On 22-May-09, at 9:45 PM, Rob Franz wrote: > You can detect whether audio is playing by getting a reference to > AudioManager and calling isMusicActive()... > > -Rob > > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Marco Nelissen > <marc...@android.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 9:41 PM, iDeveloper > <ideveloper...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > 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? > > > No, and you *should* hold on to the MediaPlayer object, because if > you don't, it can be garbage collected at any time, at which point > playback would stop. > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
