Pause/Stop MediaPlayer Android at given time programmatically

Question

I researched a little bit, but couldn't find any solutions to this problem: I would like to play a MediaPlayer and pause/stop it at a given time.. (ie: play from second 6 to second 17).

I know that I can set its starting point with seekTo() method, but can I pause/stop it from playing by setting an end point (of course, before reaching the file end limit)?

Answer 1

There are different ways you could do this, here's one:

int startFrom = 6000;
int endAt = 11000;

MediaPlayer mp;

Runnable stopPlayerTask = new Runnable(){
    @Override
    public void run() {
        mp.pause();
    }};

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    mp = MediaPlayer.create(this, R.raw.my_sound_file);  
    mp.seekTo(startFrom);
    mp.start();

    Handler handler = new Handler();
    handler.postDelayed(stopPlayerTask, endAt);
}

The mediaplayer will start playing 6 seconds in and pause it 11 seconds after that (at second 17).

Answer 2

I think you can create Timer and call seekTo() directly from its task. Then call stop()/pause() inside of that Timer Task.

Maybe this post will be helpfull for you.

Or you can use handler for this task, like Ken Wolf shows you.

Best wishes.

Answer 3

You can use CountDownTimer

new CountDownTimer(30000, 1000) {

     public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished) {

     }

     public void onFinish() {
         mp.stop;
         mp.relese();
     }
  }.start();