ExoPlayer - how to play local mp3 file

Question

I'm trying to use ExoPlayer instead of MediaPlayer because it's a common bug that MediaPlayer returns wrong getCurrentPosition() and I need a substitute.

But I can't find an info anywhere how to open a local file through the file path to the file same as MediaPlayer's .setDataSource(String filepath)

Google doesn't have any example and the official documentation site strangely crash my FireFox browser on both computers

Answer 1

The ExoPlayer demo app in github can be modified to play local files. To do that, edit https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer/blob/master/demo/src/main/java/com/google/android/exoplayer/demo/Samples.java file to add a new video set.

public static final Sample[] LOCAL_VIDEOS = new Sample[] {
   new Sample("Some User friendly name of video 1",
     "/mnt/sdcard/video1.mp4", DemoUtil.TYPE_OTHER),
  new Sample("Some User friendly name of video 2",
    "/mnt/sdcard/video2.mp4", DemoUtil.TYPE_OTHER),
};

To do that, edit https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer/blob/master/demo/src/main/java/com/google/android/exoplayer/demo/Samples.java file to add a new sample set.

sampleAdapter.add(new Header("Local Videos"));
sampleAdapter.addAll((Object[]) Samples.LOCAL_VIDEOS);