I'm able to stream audio and stop it without any problem, but when I try to start it again after stop, it doesn't start and I get an IllegalState exception.
Here is what I'm doing:
Start Playing
mediaPlayer.setDataSource(PATH);
mediaPlayer.prepare();
mediaPlayer.start();
Stop Playing
mediaPlayer.stop
Now, if I want to start playing again the same media, what will I have to do?
*PATH is the URL of a continuous running radio station.
Add this:
mp.reset();
mp.setDataSource(MEDIA_PATH);
mp.prepare();
mp.start();
In case you don't have access to the data source in the current scope, you can do:
mp.pause();
mp.seekTo(0);
Then when you do
mp.start();
play will start from the beginning again.
I needed this because I had a button that toggled playing. I had a togglePlayer method in which the datasource was out of scope.
you can check the state diagram of mediaplayer http://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/MediaPlayer.html
after the mediaplayer stopped, must call prepare, when prepared,and then you can call start method.