sounds not playing with mediaplayer after playing some sounds

Question

I'm developing an android application which is collection of 100 sound effects. After I play for instance 25 of the sounds, I can't play anymore and I have to close the application and wait for some minutes then open the application and now I can play other sounds.

final MediaPlayer mp81 = MediaPlayer.create(MainActivity.this, R.raw.a81);

I play the sound using the below code:

mp81.start();

I stop the playing sound using the below code:

mp81.seekTo(0);

I also used stop() method but the problem were still existing. is there any other method i have to add?

Answer 1

Please note: consider using SoundPool for playing short sounds.

Regarding your use-case: you initialize your MediaPlayer instance using the static create() method which means you create a new MediaPlayer object for each sound instead of reusing an existing instance and just changing the data source. This might negatively affect the performance of your app. I suggest that you create an array of paths to your sounds and then instantiate the MediaPlayer like this:

MediaPlayer mp = new MediaPlayer();
try {
     mp.setDataSource(yourArray[x]);
     mp.prepare();
     mp.start();
  } catch(Exception e){
    e.printStackTrace();
  }

Consult the MediaPlayer Document for more information.