No Sound coming from Android Emulator

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user947659 picture user947659 · Nov 25, 2011 · Viewed 57.5k times · Source

I ran my application and I can't get the sound working on the Android Emulator. I checked and enabled the audio playback boolean in the Eclipse AVD Manager. I also went into the sound options in the Android Emulator and put them up (no sound while putting them up). I checked the box that says all selections will make a noise(still no sound).

My application uses the MediaPlayer class and I am running win7 x64 if that has anything to do with it.

Help is appreciated.

Answer

Torre Lasley picture Torre Lasley · Oct 12, 2016

For OS X the Android Emulator uses the settings for "Sound Effects" so this is what I had to do to fix my issue:

  1. Click the Apple icon in the top left, then click on System Preferences
  2. Click on Sound
  3. Click on "Sound Effects"
  4. Set "Play sound effects through" to "Selected sound output device"
  5. Set the Alert volume almost at max.

Somehow this had changed to use my monitors instead.

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