App not loading with Music LibGDX

Question

The problem

I'm having difficulty loading a song for a little android game practice I'm trying to create. All the graphics and rendering works perfectly, and downloading that to my android tablet works great and displays great. However, when I try to add some background music, the app freezes with a black screen when it attempts to start, and then simply closes with a, "Unfortunately, appname has stopped" dialog error.

I have tried..

So far I have tried almost every way of loading resources. I have used:

Attempt 1

public class MyGame extends ApplicationAdapter {
    Music song;

    ...

    @Override
    public void create() {
        song = Gdx.audio.newMusic(Gdx.files.internal("song.mp3"));
        song.play();
        ...
    }
}

Attempt 2

public class Audio {
    Music song;
    public Audio() {
        song = Gdx.audio.newMusic(Gdx.files.internal("song.mp3"));
        song.play();
    }
}

public class MyGame extends ApplicationAdapter {
    Audio Song; //Custom Class

    ...

    @Override
    public void create() {
        song = new Audio()
    }
}

Attempt 3

public class MyGame extends ApplicationAdapter {
    AssetManager manager;

    ...

    @override
    public void create() {
        manager = new AssetManager();
        manager.load("song.mp3", Music.class);
        ...
        manager.finishLoading();
        Music song = manager.get("snd/Of the Airship Academy.mp3", Music.class);
        song.play();
    }
}

All of these work perfectly when running the desktop version, but when downloading to my android device, the app fails and stops.

Other things of note:

• I am trying to load a song that is a little more than 3MB.
• I tried having the song in the assets folder, as well as in a assets/snd folder
• Is it possible to get a live debugger for debugging on android, or see some sort of traceback for any possible errors?

Thanks

Answer 1

Answer

So, for anyone having the same problem, I figured I'd share how I fixed it. I discovered that the music Hz for the song I was using was incompatible with the music loader for libgdx. I ended up popping my song into Audacity and saving different versions of it with different project rates. Once that was done, the file loaded and played like normal on my android tablet.

Bottom line: Be sure the bitrate of your music is compatible with the music loader you're using. Took forever to figure this out...