simple mp3 streaming

[zildjohn01]

Hi all,
I have the following code, which is extremely simple but fails to play the audio. I've tried it under 2 emulators and a real device, and with both wav and mp3 files.

Both test files worked (with HTTP streaming) on my PC with VLC player.

package testest;

import java.io.InputStream;

import javax.microedition.io.Connector;
import javax.microedition.io.HttpConnection;
import javax.microedition.lcdui.Display;
import javax.microedition.lcdui.Form;
import javax.microedition.media.Manager;
import javax.microedition.media.Player;
import javax.microedition.midlet.MIDlet;
import javax.microedition.midlet.MIDletStateChangeException;

public class TheMid extends MIDlet implements Runnable {
  public TheMid() {}

  protected void destroyApp(boolean unconditional) throws MIDletStateChangeException {}

  protected void pauseApp() {}

  protected void startApp() throws MIDletStateChangeException {
    new Thread(this).start();
  }
	
  public void run() {
    try {
      // sorry for the mangled urls, it complained about me posting links
      // replace dashes with colon-slash-slash or with slashes. leave underscores alone
      // and sorry for the weird content of the audio files :rolleyes:
      String test_wav = "http---www-archive-org-download-BenWillemsTestTestwav-Test.wav";
      String test_mp3 = "http---www-archive-org-download-ezraLoudmouthSomethingtoSay7_3-episode_7.mp3";
      HttpConnection con = (HttpConnection)Connector.open(test_mp3); // or test_wav
      InputStream in = con.openInputStream();
      Player player = Manager.createPlayer(in, "audio/mpeg"); // or audio/x-wav, or audio/wav, or audio/mp3 to be safe
      player.realize();
      player.prefetch();
      player.start();
    } catch(Exception e) {
      Form f = new Form("Exception!");
      f.append("e.Type: " + e.getClass().getName());
      f.append("e.Msg: " + e.getMessage());
      Display.getDisplay(this).setCurrent(f);
    }
  }
}

Sun's and Sprint's emulators appear to be basically the same. They fail on wav with:

MediaException -- Failed to realize Player: premature end of stream

And they don't support mp3 so they fail on "audio/mpeg"


And my real device, a LG LX550 or Fusic, fails on both files and greets me with:

MediaException -- Could not read input stream (empty)

And of course they all failed with the obvious error for the incorrect mime types. I only tested those for the sake of completion.

Hope this is enough info and sorry for the novel. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance