Player can only play the recorded sound once on Android phone.

[jdevp]

Describe the bug I'm trying to record a sound and play it back. It works on the recording part but it only allows me to play the sound once.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Initialize Player Controller: playerController = PlayerController();
2. Record sound (successfully)
3. Prepare the player:

getPlayerReady() async{
    String directory = (await getApplicationDocumentsDirectory()).path;
    String dir="$directory/audio";
    print ("$dir/$uKey.aac");
    await playerController!.preparePlayer(
      path: '$dir/$uKey.aac',
      shouldExtractWaveform: true,
      noOfSamples: 100,
      volume: 1.0,
    );
  }

4. Play the recorded sound but it plays only first time.

IconButton(
            icon: const Icon(  Icons.play_circle,
              color: Colors.green,
            ),
            onPressed: ()async{

              print(playerController!.playerState);
              // the first time, the playerState shows Initialized. At end of play, t shows Stopped
              if(playerController!.playerState.isStopped) {
                 print("try to play it again but failed");
                 await playerController!.seekTo(0);

                 await playerController!.startPlayer(finishMode: FinishMode.stop);
                 return;
              }
              playerController!.playerState == PlayerState.playing
                  ? await playerController!.pausePlayer()
                  : await playerController!.startPlayer(finishMode: FinishMode.stop);
            }
        ),

Expected behavior It should be played every time.

Smartphone (please complete the following information):

• Device: [Moto one 5G]
• OS: [Android ]
• Version [11]

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[baraazain]

i face the same probleme i used await controller.startPlayer(finishMode: FinishMode.pause); and it work if you are stop the player you can't run the player again

class AudioWavesMessage extends StatefulWidget { final Message message;

const AudioWavesMessage({super.key, required this.message});

@override State createState() => _AudioWavesMessageState(); }

class _AudioWavesMessageState extends State { PlayerController controller = PlayerController(); // Initialise bool isPlaying = false;

  @override
  initState() {
    initialPlayer();
    super.initState();
  }

  @override
  void dispose() {
    stopPlayer();
    controller.dispose();
    super.dispose();
  }

`` initialPlayer() async { await controller.preparePlayer( path: widget.message.files![0].path, shouldExtractWaveform: true, noOfSamples: 50, volume: 1.0, ); controller.onCompletion.listen((state) { setState(() { pausePlayer(); }); }); }

startPlayer() async { try { await controller.startPlayer(finishMode: FinishMode.pause); setState(() { isPlaying = true; }); } catch (e) { print('Error start player: $e'); } }

pausePlayer() async { try { await controller.pausePlayer(); setState(() { isPlaying = false; }); } catch (e) { print('Error pausing player: $e'); } }

stopPlayer() async { try { await controller.stopPlayer(); setState(() { isPlaying = false; }); } catch (e) { print('Error stop player: $e'); } }

@override build(BuildContext context) { return SizedBox( width: 300, child: Row( children: [ InkWell( onTap: () { isPlaying ? pausePlayer() : startPlayer(); }, child: Icon( isPlaying ? Icons.pause : Icons.play_arrow, color: Colors.white, )), const SizedBox( width: 10, ), Expanded( child: AudioFileWaveforms( size: Size(MediaQuery.of(context).size.width, 40.0), playerController: controller, enableSeekGesture: isPlaying ? true : false, waveformType: WaveformType.fitWidth, waveformData: const [], playerWaveStyle: const PlayerWaveStyle( fixedWaveColor: Colors.white, liveWaveColor: DesignColors.green, spacing: 6, seekLineColor: Colors.grey, scaleFactor: 200), padding: EdgeInsets.zero, margin: EdgeInsets.zero, continuousWaveform: true, ), ), ], ), ); } }

[Ujas-Majithiya]

@jdevp startPlayer has the parameter finishMode which you can use to change behaviour when audio ends playing. For your use case, you may use FinishMode.pause. See its documentation for more info.

[ebwood]

@jdevp startPlayer has the parameter finishMode which you can use to change behaviour when audio ends playing. For your use case, you may use FinishMode.pause. See its documentation for more info.

FinishMode.pause can play again for same audio file, but if i reuse the PlayerController for different file, FinishMode.pause is not working in android. iOS is no such problem.

[Ujas-Majithiya]

Reopening for further investigation

[ysgy1121]

fun preparePlayer(
        result: MethodChannel.Result,
        path: String?,
        volume: Float?,
        frequency: Long?,
    ) {
        if (path != null) {
            frequency?.let {
                updateFrequency = it
            }
            val uri = Uri.parse(path)
            val mediaItem = MediaItem.fromUri(uri)
            player = ExoPlayer.Builder(appContext).build()
            player?.addMediaItem(mediaItem)
            player?.prepare()
            playerListener = object : Player.Listener {
                override fun onPlayerStateChanged(isReady: Boolean, state: Int) {
                    if (!isPlayerPrepared) {
                        if (state == Player.STATE_READY) {
                            player?.volume = volume ?: 1F
                            isPlayerPrepared = true
                            result.success(true)
                        }
                    }
                    if (state == Player.STATE_ENDED) {
                        val args: MutableMap<String, Any?> = HashMap()
                        when (finishMode) {
                            FinishMode.Loop -> {
                                player?.seekTo(0)
                                player?.play()
                                args[Constants.finishType] = 0
                            }
                            FinishMode.Pause -> {
                                player?.seekTo(0)
                                player?.playWhenReady = false
                                stopListening()
                                args[Constants.finishType] = 1
                            }
                            else -> {
                                player?.stop()
                                player?.release()
                                player = null
                                isPlayerPrepared = false
                                stopListening()
                                args[Constants.finishType] = 2
                            }
                        }
                        args[Constants.playerKey] = key
                        methodChannel.invokeMethod(
                            Constants.onDidFinishPlayingAudio,
                            args
                        )
                    }
                }
            }
            player?.addListener(playerListener!!)
        } else {
            result.error(Constants.LOG_TAG, "path to audio file or unique key can't be null", "")
        }
    }

I encountered the same issue while finishMode was set to stop, and I resolved the problem by modifying the code[/audio_waveforms/android/src/main/kotlin/com/simform/audio_waveforms/AudioPlayer.kt] as described.

add 'isPlayerPrepared = false'

[igorfastronicorrea]

same problem, my state is stopped e when I try .startPlayer() sound not play.