React-native-sound: Playing file from local storage.

[jgreen01su]

I'm trying to play a file that's stored locally on the device, but it doesn't work.

The path looks like this:
file:///data/user/0/com.myapp/files/RNFetchBlobTmp_ek4mbn9hjs00p2eiqjllmlh

Initializing the sound:

const localSound =  new sound(path);

In render:

              <Button
                title='Play'
                onPress={() => {
                  localSound.stop(() =>
                    localSound.play(
                      success => !success && localSound.reset()
                    )
                  );
                }}
              />

I've tested this same code with a remote url and it works perfectly. What am I doing wrong here?

This is an Android 8.1.0 emulated device. I'm using react-native 0.55.4 and react-native-sound 0.10.9. Let me know if there's any other details you'd like to know.

[jgreen01su]

react-native-sound doesn't accept having file:// in front of the file path.

[sw5813]

Are there any workarounds that will allow react-native-sound to accept having file:// in front of the file path?

[joserocha3]

@sw5813, the OP wasn't very clear about the fix. You can play local files on Android, just remove the file:// prefix.

Wrong:

file:///data/user/0/com.myapp/files/RNFetchBlobTmp_ek4mbn9hjs00p2eiqjllmlh

Correct:

/data/user/0/com.myapp/files/RNFetchBlobTmp_ek4mbn9hjs00p2eiqjllmlh

[SwordElucidator]

@joserocha3
Thank you for your explain. however, I tried to remove "file://" from the file path but still cannot find or open the local file on android, and the error callback is not called also.

I tried to upload the file on this uri to server and download with new Sound(remotePath) and it works fine. But I cannot find any way to directly read it from local storage.

The file's path is
file:///data/user/0/com.myapp/cache/ExperienceData/%2540xxx%252F/Audio/recording-xxx.m4a
The path I tried is
/data/user/0/com.myapp/cache/ExperienceData/%2540xxx%252F/Audio/recording-xxx.m4a

Do you have any thought on it?

[tlweiii6465]

im facing this issue too, i need to use file:// so i could post my .aac file to my server is that any solution about this problem?

[Preethyp]

@SwordElucidator I'm facing the same issue too. Have you found any solution?

[jgreen01su]

@Preethyp @tlweiii6465 Here's a quick hack to workaround this.

const fileLocationWithPrefix = "file:///data/user/0/com.myapp/cache/ExperienceData/%2540xxx%252F/Audio/recording-xxx.m4a"
const fileLocationWithoutPrefix = fileLocation.split("file://")[1]
// '/data/user/0/com.myapp/cache/ExperienceData/%2540xxx%252F/Audio/recording-xxx.m4a'

[lucasca73]

This could be documented somewhere :) or treated as a new feature...