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celinafregoso99
Explorer | Level 3
6 years ago

why I can't stream an audio stored in dropbox using Android Exoplayer?

I can use an exoplayer like this   lateinit var player : SimpleExoPlayer! val mediaItem = MediaItem.fromUri("https://www.soundhelix.com/examples/mp3/SoundHelix-Song-1.mp3") player = SimpleExoP...
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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
6 years ago
celinafregoso99 wrote:

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val mediaItem = MediaItem.fromUri("https://www.dropbox.com/s/lbe1kod9t6yuh5j/sample1.m4a")

how to solve this ?

You're not pointing media file but a preview page (i.e. HTML)! One alternative is download link:

val mediaItem = MediaItem.fromUri("https://www.dropbox.com/s/lbe1kod9t6yuh5j/sample1.m4a?dl=1")

Or might be better raw shared link:

val mediaItem = MediaItem.fromUri("https://www.dropbox.com/s/lbe1kod9t6yuh5j/sample1.m4a?raw=1")

Good luck!

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