My problem is that the new ICS MediaPlayer Android player now downloads music in two steps:
1) It sends a request to the HTTP server, and the server starts sending the mp3 file:
GET /stream/test.mp3 HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.30.113
Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: stagefright/1.2 (Linux;Android 4.0.3)
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 07:37:29 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.21 (Win64) PHP/5.3.8
Last-Modified: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 11:17:50 GMT
ETag: "6d0000000400e4-5b415f-428909c5e7a6b"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 5980511
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: audio/mpeg
2) He closes the first connection and again opens another:
GET /stream/test.mp3 HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.30.113
Accept: */*
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 07:37:41 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.21 (Win64) PHP/5.3.8
Last-Modified: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 11:17:50 GMT
ETag: "6d0000000400e4-5b415f-428909c5e7a6b"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 5980511
Content-Type: audio/mpeg
So, how can I go back to the previous function in android 2.3.3 when only one connection was used to download mp3?
Thank.
Edit: I see that MediaPlayer is based on the network state, in fact, depending on the connection speed: wifi or 3G MediaPlayer uses these two connections, but with EDGE it uses only one.
I think this may explain why many users talk about long buffering times before starting music.