Kivy on Android with MP3 support

[André MIRAS]

Hi,

It looks like the support for MP3 files on Kivy was dropped in https://github.com/kivy/python-for-android/commit/cee53883a222041634853f6b1a47266cd5330f13 (line with SUPPORT_MP3_SMPEG), am I right?

If so, why is that ? Is it for licensing issues? It's confusing we don't have a commit message or a comment directly on the patch file that states so.

Even though I know I can still convert my files to OGG, is there a way around to play MP3 files on Android with Python?

Cheers,

[GreyGnome]

*Gulp* Yes, if true this is terrible. Can it be so? I'm looking for as bruad of multimedia support as I can get. If this is the case, I'm quite disappointed.

[Kovak]

It is configurable, it just is no longer the default since there are licensing issues around MP3. You can still set this option to True.

[André MIRAS]

OK Kovak, but since this is a recipes we would have to fork it to enable the option isn't it?

At the moment I'm working on a custom Sound class implementation based on Android MediaPlayer class. It works OK so far.

[ZenCODE]

@André MIRAS

Interesting. Does this bypass app switching issues? i.e. where the sound stops if you switch off the screen/switch to another app?

[André MIRAS]

Yes it does.

[Alexander Taylor]

Disabling this wasn't a conscious decision, I didn't notice it in the PR. However, there may be a reason for doing it, such as a problem with SDL2's android build (this is the reason for some other things being disabled), or a local dependency requirement.

If you find that setting this to true works, I don't see a reason not to enable it, or at least (if there really are licensing issues) to add a user toggle for it.

[André MIRAS]

Thanks for clarifying Alexander.

I could verify what you said about build problems, since enabling it led me to linking errors :)

I could eventually make it work on my local installation. But since I'm quite new to SDL, python-for-android, recipes and all of that, it will take me a little bit of time before submitting a pull request.

[André MIRAS]

Here it is https://github.com/kivy/python-for-android/pull/889.