Is there a way to automate audio file include?

I’ve managed to get audio playing, but I’m striving to make includes to the project automated.

I’ve got this in my package.json to automate font includes from my src/assets/fonts folder

        "rnpm": {
		"assets": [
			"src/assets/fonts"
		]
	}

This puts files into Resources folder. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem like Sound can play from there. Could you suggest something (if possible) to have similar flow for src/assets/audio folder. If not, is it possible to include audio file from src folder as opposed to native?

[Venryx]

@benvium

At the moment android can only play audio files from the res/raw folder. I’m planning to add android assets support at some time as it’d be useful for us, but don’t have a timeline on this.

Android asset support can be accomplished by adding this to the start of the RNSoundModule.createMediaPlayer function:

if (fileName.startsWith("assets/")) {
	try {
		MediaPlayer player = new MediaPlayer();
		AssetFileDescriptor assetFileInfo = context.getAssets().openFd(fileName.substring("assets/".length()));
		player.setDataSource(assetFileInfo.getFileDescriptor(), assetFileInfo.getStartOffset(), assetFileInfo.getLength());
		player.prepare();
		return player;
	} catch (IOException e) {
		e.printStackTrace();
	}
}

And then from JavaScript, doing:

var whoosh = new Sound('whoosh.mp3', 'assets', (error)=>{});

Of course, this isn’t that much different from using the android/app/src/main/res/raw directory, as mentioned in the Readme. But I like this slightly better, because the assets folder preserves the original filename and folder structure. This is nice for when you want the user to be able to reference the files manually. (as is true in my app)

[0xAsimetriq]

Does the trick now, looking forward for Android support, I think this is really neat feature 👍