Freeware Advanced Audio (AAC) Player for Android

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Project Moved !

NOTE: the project has been migrated to GitHub: https://github.com/vbartacek/aacplayer-android

NOTE: this project was a Proof of Concept only. If you are looking for an AAC decoder library which you would like to use in your own projects, then please visit the follow-up project http://code.google.com/p/aacdecoder-android/.

Please see also my blog.

This is a port of the following open source libraries to Android platform: * FAAD2 (Freeware Advanced Audio (AAC) Decoder including SBR decoding) * FFmpeg library (only AAC decoder) * OpenCORE aacdec library

This project was written for those developers spending hours of googling the internet to answer a simple question:

How to make Android to play raw AAC files (streams) ?

I spent many hours by it and now I want to save other people's time - so I am publishing what I have found.

I tried to: * invoke MediaPlayer on raw AAC http:// URL (error) * invoke MediaPlayer on raw AAC file (error in emulator, OK on HTC Desire) * pass a NetSocket FileHandle to MediaPlayer (error) * filter the stream using local ServerSocket and: * discard HTTP header (error) * change content-type to several possibilities like audio/mpeg (error) * sync ADTS header (icecast does not do it) (error) * split the AAC stream into small file chunks (OK, but not excellent) * use 3rd party native libraries (FAAD2/FFmpeg) to decode AAC (OK on HTC Desire, working on emulator - but slow) * finally using the 3rd party library OpenCORE aacdec met the expectations - and playing is smooth even on emulator

This software uses FAAD2 library to decode AAC streams. For more information about FAAD2, please visit http://www.audiocoding.com/

This software uses code of FFmpeg licensed under the LGPLv2.1 and its source can be downloaded here. For more information about FFmpeg, please visit http://ffmpeg.org/

This software uses code of OpenCORE aacdec licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 and its source can be downloaded here. For more information about OpenCORE aacdec, please visit http://code.google.com/p/opencore-aacdec/

PLEASE NOTE that the use of this software may require the payment of patent royalties. You need to consider this issue before you start building derivative works. We are not warranting or indemnifying you in any way for patent royalities! YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN ACTIONS!

For more information about the AAC patents, please visit http://www.vialicensing.com/licensing/AAC_index.cfm