Directory for storing audio files in Android

android audio playback
Sriram picture Sriram · Jan 12, 2011 · Viewed 59.3k times · Source

I want to play an audio file based on the click of a button. I have defined the onClickListener() method and the layout file. When I add the wav files to the res/ directory, I get the following build error:

invalid resource directory name temp.wav /hello/res line 1 Android AAPT Problem

My question is as follows:
1. What directory do I need to store audio files in? Currently they are in the res/ folder.
2. Also, mp.setDataSource("/res/temp.wav") the correct way to invoke the media player?

Answer

Aswathy P Krishnan picture Aswathy P Krishnan · Mar 9, 2012

The audio files can be moved to a folder named raw which should be created in the res folder.

It can be accessed by the following code:

MediaPlayer mPlayer = MediaPlayer.create(context, R.raw.soundclip);
mPlayer.setAudioStreamType(AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC);
mPlayer.start();

This is the easiest way. You can try it..

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