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POAndroid: How to mix 2 audio files and reproduce them with soundPool
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copied!<p>I'm trying to develop an Android aplication that uses some sounds and mix them together for creating music compositions. At the beggining I tried just to reproduce sounds at the same time, but when I was doing that, they got disinchronized, and after several hours reading forums I realized that the best way to reproduce several sounds at the same time in loop mode is just to merge the audio files in one and then reproduce them as a single file.</p> <p>Here is the code I'm using:</p> <pre><code> //Oppening file 1 InputStream is = getAssets().open("sounds/sound_1.ogg"); int size = is.available(); byte[] buffer = new byte[size]; is.read(buffer); is.close(); //End Oppening file 1 //Oppening file 2 InputStream is_2 = getAssets().open("sounds/sound_2.ogg"); int size_2 = is_2.available(); byte[] buffer_2 = new byte[size_2]; is_2.read(buffer_2); is_2.close(); //End Oppening file 2 //Get Bigger size and Merge Files int total_size =0; byte[] buffer_final; if(buffer.length>buffer_2.length){ total_size = buffer_2.length; }else{ total_size = buffer.length-1; } buffer_final= new byte[total_size]; for(int i=30; i<total_size-30;i++){ float a =buffer[i]; float b =buffer_2[i]; float c = (a+b)/2; buffer_final[i]=(byte) c; } FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(f); fos.write(buffer_final); fos.close(); </code></pre> <p>And after that, using soundPool I read the resulting file and try to reproduce it. </p> <p>If i use this formula without merging the files (so, using only one sound, creating a new file, and then reading it, it works perfectly, so I assume that the problem is in the file merging, that maybe is not as easy as just adding the bytes together and then divide by 2.</p> <p>After doing this, the log tells me this:</p> <p>Unable to load sample (null).</p> <p>And ofc, when I try to reproduce the log says that the sample is not ready.</p> <p>Any help about this please? I've been googleing for it for weeks and I couldn't solve it ... </p> <p>It's my first time programming Android, and also Audio so I'm a bit lost. </p> <p>The question would be, how can I mix this sounds? I'm I in the right way for doing it? Where is the problem? </p> <p>Thanks for reading and helping :)</p>

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