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

[celinafregoso99]

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 = SimpleExoPlayer.Builder(mContext).build()
player.setMediaItem(mediaItem)
playerView.player = player

I can stream the audio without any use if I use the code above.

but if I want to use an audio file that have in dropbox, the sound will never play, the code and link is like this

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

how to solve this ?

[Greg-DB]

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[Здравко]

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@celinafregoso99 wrote:

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

how to solve this ?

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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!