Exoplayer: Shoutcast streaming error on Android 4.3 (Works fine on 5.0+)

[egemenhamutcu]

In ExoPlayer demo app, I want to stream a Shoutcast which its URL is http://31.210.157.103/

I set the type as TYPE_OTHER. It works fine on my 5.1.1 and 6.0 devices but fails on 4.3 device giving the following exception:

E/ExoPlayerImplInternal: Internal track renderer error.
                                                                                          com.google.android.exoplayer.ExoPlaybackException: com.google.android.exoplayer.upstream.HttpDataSource$InvalidResponseCodeException: Response code: -1
                                                                                              at com.google.android.exoplayer.SampleSourceTrackRenderer.maybeThrowError(SampleSourceTrackRenderer.java:263)
                                                                                              at com.google.android.exoplayer.SampleSourceTrackRenderer.maybeThrowError(SampleSourceTrackRenderer.java:149)
                                                                                              at com.google.android.exoplayer.ExoPlayerImplInternal.incrementalPrepareInternal(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:283)
                                                                                              at com.google.android.exoplayer.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:205)
                                                                                              at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
                                                                                              at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:176)
                                                                                              at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:61)
                                                                                              at com.google.android.exoplayer.util.PriorityHandlerThread.run(PriorityHandlerThread.java:40)
                                                                                           Caused by: com.google.android.exoplayer.upstream.HttpDataSource$InvalidResponseCodeException: Response code: -1
                                                                                              at com.google.android.exoplayer.upstream.DefaultHttpDataSource.open(DefaultHttpDataSource.java:210)
                                                                                              at com.google.android.exoplayer.upstream.DefaultUriDataSource.open(DefaultUriDataSource.java:135)
                                                                                              at com.google.android.exoplayer.extractor.ExtractorSampleSource$ExtractingLoadable.load(ExtractorSampleSource.java:720)
                                                                                              at com.google.android.exoplayer.upstream.Loader$LoadTask.run(Loader.java:209)
                                                                                              at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:390)
                                                                                              at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:234)
                                                                                              at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1080)
                                                                                              at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:573)
                                                                                              at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:841)

How can I overcome with this issue? I looked some similar issues in this project like icy implementation, but their code was not enough to build properly.

Any ideas?

[cyberjaime45]

Hey, I had the same problem. The issue here I believe is the response being -1. Somehow Android >=5 is able to handle this. However android 4+ fails due to a non- ok response.

In order to avoid go around I modified the validation response to: (responseCode >= 1 && responseCode < 200 || responseCode > 299)

This is not best way, but it works just fine.

[Ood-Tsen]

This seems HttpUrlConnection problem. It should be fixed on Android 4.4.
Android as of Android 4.4 is using OkHttp for its internal HttpUrlConnection implementation.

[ojw28]

Isn't the problem more that the server is using ICY, which isn't _real_ http? I wouldn't say it's a problem that an http stack can't handle a non-http protocol. It's more an added bonus if it does ;)...

[egemenhamutcu]

Same URL perfectly works on RadioPlayerService
It also works on FFmpegMediaPlayer

Removing ExoPlayer from my project.

You can close this issue if you feel good.

[ojw28]

Closing since we do not officially support ICY. As per @cyberjaime45 above, there exist pretty trivial solutions to make it work if you wish to do so.