Question

I am trying to make a mediaplayer in android streaming songs from Amazon S3.
I made the songs in my bucket public and it works fine when I stream them with the bowser.
But when it come to android, it throws me an exception like that.

11-20 01:28:37.720: W/System.err(736): java.io.FileNotFoundException: /https:/s3.amazonaws.com/soul-media/mp3s/1234.mp3: open failed: ENOENT (No such file or directory)

here is my code for the player

    MediaPlayer mid= new MediaPlayer();
    try {
        FileInputStream fid= new FileInputStream("https://s3.amazonaws.com/soul-media/mp3s/1234.mp3");
        mid.setDataSource(fid.getFD());
        mid.prepare();
        mid.start();
    } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IllegalStateException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

It worked with android 4.1 but did not work with 2.2, can that be the issue?
I also tried some urls other than Amazon S3, it works. So is that something with Amazon?

Answer 1

Is there any reason you can’t just skip creating the FileInputStream and call mid.setDataSource("https://s3.amazonaws.com/...") via this overload? Does that work?

Edit:
Apparently, instead of calling prepare for streams, you should be calling prepareAsync which should return immediately, like so:

MediaPlayer mid = new MediaPlayer();
try {
    mid.setDataSource("http://soul-media.s3.amazonaws.com/mp3s/1234.mp3");
    mid.setOnPreparedListener(new OnPreparedListener() {
        @Override
        public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) {
            mp.start();
        }
    });
    mid.setOnErrorListener(new OnErrorListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onError(MediaPlayer mp, int what, int extra) {
            return false;
        }
    });
    mid.prepareAsync();
} catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IllegalStateException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

Does that help?