MediaPlayer randomly stops on Android 4.4 (19)

Question

My app is streaming audio fine on all devices except Nexus 5. On Nexus 5, the MediaPlayer randomly stops playing. Not sure if the changes with respect to Loudness (http://d

Answer 1

This problem is possible related to bug: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=63032

The problem associated with the above bug is fixed in 4.4.1/4.4.2. The change log entry that is suspected to be the issue has the following information:

• https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/av/+/7fa0152
• Restore NuPlayer error and EOS handling This was erroneously removed by commit a73c954