Android Question Play short .wav file in a loop [solved]

[Didier9]

Is there a way to play a short wav file in a loop (without interruption)?
I know I can play a sound file using intent, but that does not play continuously.

I am trying to convert a white noise generator I wrote for the PC (VB 6.0) a long time ago and I believe the wav file had to be a certain length to play continuously without gap. The wav file I have works fine on the PC, it is about 1 second long with 16 bits samples, mono.

So I am looking for a way to play that file on B4A. I can easily adjust the length of the wav file (number of samples), in case B4A would have the same requirement in order to play continuously.

Alternately, I could generate the sound samples on the fly and store them in a RAM buffer to be played directly (without actually creating a file) if there was a way to play a RAM buffer continuously.

 

[Erel]

I know I can play a sound file using intent, but that does not play continuously.

That's not the correct way to play a sound.

You can use MediaPlayer and set IsLooping to True.
You can use SoundPool and play it with a timer or a loop with a call to Sleep.
You can play it directly from memory with AudioStreamer (https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/audio-library-beeper-duration.78712/#post-498840).

 

[Didier9]

Thank you Erel, that gives me a number of options to try.