Below is what i worked on to stream radio (m3Urls). The example below uses a service. When the service is started, the url is parsed. Note that in the onPostExecute, parsed file is prepared. Once the file is prepared(completed buffering), the file is played/started and stopped upon completion.
public class BackgroundRadioService extends Service implements
OnCompletionListener, OnPreparedListener{
MediaPlayer mediaPlayer;
@Override
public void onCreate() {
mediaPlayer = new MediaPlayer();
mediaPlayer.setOnCompletionListener(this);
mediaPlayer.setOnPreparedListener(this);
}
@Override
public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) {
parseM3uUrlAndPrepare("http://listen.radionomy.com/andalousse.m3u");
return START_STICKY;
}
private void parseM3uUrlAndPrepare(final String url){
AsyncTask<String, Integer, String> asyn = new AsyncTask<String, Integer, String>(){
HttpClient httpClient;
HttpGet getRequest;
HttpResponse httpResponse = null;
String filePath = "";
@Override
protected void onPreExecute() {
super.onPreExecute();
httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
getRequest = new HttpGet(url);
}
@Override
protected String doInBackground(String... params) {
try {
httpResponse = httpClient.execute(getRequest);
} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
if(httpResponse != null)
if (httpResponse.getStatusLine().getStatusCode() != HttpStatus.SC_OK) {
// ERROR MESSAGE
} else {
InputStream inputStream = null;
try {
inputStream = httpResponse.getEntity().getContent();
} catch (IllegalStateException e1) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e1.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e1) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e1.printStackTrace();
}
BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream));
String line;
try {
while ((line = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null) {
//Log.v("PLAYLISTLINE", "ORIG: " + line);
if (line.startsWith("#")) { // Metadata
} else if (line.length() > 0) {
filePath = "";
if (line.startsWith("http://")) { // Assume it's a full URL
filePath = line;
} else { // Assume it's relative
try{
filePath = getRequest.getURI().resolve(line).toString();
}catch(IllegalArgumentException e){
}catch(Exception e){
}
}
}
}
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
try {
inputStream.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
return filePath;
}
@Override
protected void onPostExecute(String filePath) {
try {
mediaPlayer.setDataSource(filePath);
mediaPlayer.prepareAsync(); //this will prepare file a.k.a buffering
} catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IllegalStateException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
};
asyn.execute("");
}
@Override
public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
mediaPlayer.start();
}
@Override
public void onCompletion(MediaPlayer mp) {
mediaPlayer.stop();
}
}//end of Service class declaration
Note: This ignores playlists hence assumes the m3u parsed will return only one file. Let me know if you would like to handle playlists so I modify my answer :)