[TIMOB-3348] Ti.Media.Sound url bug

GitHub Issue	n/a
Type	Bug
Priority	Medium
Status	Closed
Resolution	Won't Fix
Resolution Date	2011-08-29T14:13:49.000+0000
Affected Version/s	n/a
Fix Version/s	Sprint 2011-35
Components	iOS
Labels	createsound, media, sound
Reporter	netspy
Assignee	Reggie Seagraves
Created	2011-04-15T03:42:43.000+0000
Updated	2017-03-22T18:04:29.000+0000

Description

This works:

var sound = Titanium.Media.createSound();
sound.url='../cricket.wav';
sound.play();

But if I try to change the url after that, sound plays still the cricket.wav sound.

sound.url='../other_sound.wav';
sound.play(); /* plays cricket.wav */

Comments

Eduardo Gomez 2011-08-18

Associated HD ticket

ENT customer relying on this, APP-117136

Tested on

Simulator iOS 4.3 Device iPod / iPad 1

Target Environment

{noformat} Product: Mobile SDK: 1.7.2 Platform OS: iOS Version: 4.3 {noformat}

Repro sequence

   //
   // create controls tab and root window
   //
   var win2 = Titanium.UI.createWindow({
   	title : 'Tab 2',
   	backgroundColor : '#fff'
   });
   var tab2 = Titanium.UI.createTab({
   	icon : 'KS_nav_ui.png',
   	title : 'Tab 2',
   	window : win2
   });
   
   var label2 = Titanium.UI.createLabel({
   	color : '#999',
   	text : 'I am Window 2',
   	font : {
   		fontSize : 20,
   		fontFamily : 'Helvetica Neue'
   	},
   	textAlign : 'center',
   	width : 'auto'
   });
   
   win2.add(label2);
   
   var b1 = Titanium.UI.createButton({
   	title:'Play me!',
   	color : '#fff',
   	top : 74,
   	left : 0,
   	width : 107,
   	height : 69
   });
   
   win2.add(b1);
   
   win2.open();
   
   var snd = Titanium.Media.createSound({
   	//url : 'mp3/sn-1.mp3',
   	preload : true
   });
   snd.isLopping = false;
   
   var type = 1;
   
   function go() {
   	
   	try {
   		if(type == 1) {
   			sn = 'mp3/sn-1.mp3';
   			type = 2;
   			Ti.API.info("first file");
   		}else if(type == 2) {
   			sn = 'mp3/sn-9.mp3';
   			type = 1;
   			Ti.API.info("second file");
   		}
   
   		snd.url = sn;
   		Ti.API.info(sn);
   		
   	} catch (e) {
   		Ti.API.error("FAIL: play creating sound:" + e);
   	}
   	
   	snd.play();
   }
   
   b1.addEventListener('click', function(e) {
   	Ti.API.info("click");
   	go();
   }, false);

Reggie Seagraves 2011-08-29

Duplicate of customer issue TIMOB-1488. This can be easily achieved by creating a new sound object. Furthermore, this would create a platform parity issue and would complicate any future API that, for example, would support sound channels, etc. A sound object should be considered an immutable object once it's constructed.
Esben Maaløe 2012-08-07

MY COMMENT PERTAINS TO ANDROID ONLY, HAVE NOT TESTED ON iOS. MAY OR MAY NOT APPLY TO iOS AS WELL But if you do that (create a new soundobject) - you end up depleting resources and your application will go silent. You will get an errormessage in the log-output, but no errors are raised to the app. Further details here: http://developer.appcelerator.com/question/140287/problems-with-timediasound-on-android
Esben Maaløe 2012-08-07

Besides - the docs have no mention of not being able to set a new Url, on the contrary, in the docs you have a 'setUrl' method. This method is not available on Android. So a doc-update is needed
Lee Morris 2017-03-22

Closing ticket as the issue will not fix and with reference to the above comments.

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