[Kool]

Hi All,

I have some audio mp3 files in my assets folder. I initially played them using a simple Audio QML item with the path:

source: "../../assets/some_audio.mp3"

This worked fine, but for various reasons I decided to the move loading/playing of audio files into C++ land, using a combination of QMediaPlayer (to play the files) and QMediaPlaylist (to store all the paths to files).

The QMediaPlaylist (C++) accepts a QUrl as a path to an audio file:

playlist_->addMedia(QUrl("assets/some_audio.mp3");

It locates it and plays the file fine on Windows.

However, it cannot locate the file on Android deployments. Does anyone have any ideas what might be wrong/a quick solution? (please forgive the lack of example code)

Many thanks!

[GüntherFelgo Team]

Hi Kool!

The assets might be placed differently depending on the app packaging required for the platform. You can check each application package and platform where to locate the files, to add platform-dependent code accordingly.

Best,
Günther

[Kool]

GT said:

Hi Kool!

The assets might be placed differently depending on the app packaging required for the platform. You can check each application package and platform where to locate the files, to add platform-dependent code accordingly.

Best,
Günther

That does seem to be the case. If there’s one thing I hate it’s adding macro ifdefs all over my code.

I do wonder how the Audio::source component/property correctly resolves it on both Android and Windows without any intervention.

Does anyone know how to get to the source code for that to see how Qt does it?

[Kool]

I tried for a while testing out various things but nothing worked.

Qt’s documentation points to this page: https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_for_Android_known_issues

The Qt Multimedia Widgets module is not supported on Android, which means video display is only available using the VideoOutput and Video QML items.

This may indicate the QMediaPlayer class is incompatible with Android. However, some stack overflow posts mention getting it to work on Android.

At this point I’ll just revert back to the previous QML implementation.