recording and saving audio on Android

Question

I'm developing an android (2.2) app to record audio. The code seems to run fine and even saves the files on the SD Card, but when I try and play the audio files on my Mac nothing happens. Almost like the files are empty. I've tried saving them as .mp3 and .wav but no luck. My code is below:

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

import android.media.MediaRecorder;
import android.os.Environment;

public class AudioRecorder {

    private MediaRecorder recorder = new MediaRecorder();

    private File outfile = null;

    public AudioRecorder(){}

    public void startRecording(String audioFile) throws IOException {
        String state = android.os.Environment.getExternalStorageState();
        if(!state.equals(android.os.Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED))  {
            throw new IOException("SD Card is not mounted.  It is " + state + ".");
        }

        // make sure the directory we plan to store the recording in exists
        File directory = new File(path).getParentFile();
        if (!directory.exists() && !directory.mkdirs()) {
            throw new IOException("Path to file could not be created.");
        }
        try{
            File storageDir = new File(Environment
                    .getExternalStorageDirectory(), "/audio/");
            storageDir.mkdir();
            outfile=File.createTempFile(audioFile, ".wav",storageDir);
            recorder.setAudioSource(MediaRecorder.AudioSource.MIC);
            recorder.setOutputFormat(MediaRecorder.OutputFormat.RAW_AMR);
            recorder.setAudioEncoder(MediaRecorder.AudioEncoder.AMR_NB);
            recorder.setOutputFile(outfile.getAbsolutePath());
        }catch(IOException e){
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        try{
            recorder.prepare();
        }catch(IllegalStateException e){
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        recorder.start();
        }

    public void stop() throws IOException {
        recorder.stop();
        recorder.release();
        }
}

My Activity:

/**
 * Recording Activity
 */


import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;

import com.seekika.android.app.helpers.AudioRecorder;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.media.MediaRecorder;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.Environment;
import android.os.SystemClock;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.Chronometer;

public class Record extends Activity {

    private static final String TAG="RecordActivity";

    private int SETTINGS=Menu.FIRST;
    private int LOGOUT=Menu.FIRST + 1;
    private int EXIT=Menu.FIRST + 2;

    //components
    private Button mBtnStartRecording;
    private Button mBtnStopRecording;

    private Chronometer mChronometer;


    private String audioFileName="";
    final AudioRecorder recorder = new AudioRecorder();

    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.recordstory);
        initComponents();
    }

    public void initComponents(){
        mChronometer=(Chronometer)findViewById(R.id.chrono);
        mBtnStopRecording=(Button)findViewById(R.id.btn_stop_recording);
        mBtnStopRecording.setEnabled(false);

        mBtnStopRecording.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                //stop timer
                stopRecording();
                //stop recording and save audio file to SD card

            }
        });

        mBtnStartRecording=(Button)findViewById(R.id.btn_start_recording);
        mBtnStartRecording.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                startRecording();
                mBtnStartRecording.setEnabled(false);
                mBtnStopRecording.setEnabled(true);
                //start recording audio
                //start timer

            }
        });

    }

    private void startRecording(){
        mChronometer.setBase(SystemClock.elapsedRealtime());
        mChronometer.start();


        try{
            String myRecording="Seekika-" + System.currentTimeMillis();
            Log.i(TAG, "Start Recording");
            recorder.startRecording(myRecording);
        }catch(IOException e){
            Log.e(TAG,"IOException error");
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

    }

    private void stopRecording(){
        mChronometer.stop();

        try{
            recorder.stop();
        }catch(IOException e){
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

    }


}

Answer 1

Don' know if you can use this, but this works for me:

public void recordAudio(String fileName) {
    final MediaRecorder recorder = new MediaRecorder();
    ContentValues values = new ContentValues(3);
    values.put(MediaStore.MediaColumns.TITLE, fileName);
    recorder.setAudioSource(MediaRecorder.AudioSource.MIC);
    recorder.setOutputFormat(MediaRecorder.OutputFormat.MPEG_4);
    recorder.setAudioEncoder(MediaRecorder.AudioEncoder.DEFAULT);
    recorder.setOutputFile("/sdcard/sound/" + fileName);
    try {
      recorder.prepare();
    } catch (Exception e){
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    final ProgressDialog mProgressDialog = new ProgressDialog(MyActivity.this);
    mProgressDialog.setTitle(R.string.lbl_recording);
    mProgressDialog.setProgressStyle(ProgressDialog.STYLE_SPINNER);
    mProgressDialog.setButton("Stop recording", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
    public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) {
        mProgressDialog.dismiss();
        recorder.stop();
        recorder.release();
        }
    });

    mProgressDialog.setOnCancelListener(new DialogInterface.OnCancelListener(){
        public void onCancel(DialogInterface p1) {
            recorder.stop();
            recorder.release();
        }
    });
    recorder.start();
    mProgressDialog.show();
}

Answer 2

 recorder.setOutputFormat(MediaRecorder.OutputFormat.RAW_AMR);
 recorder.setAudioEncoder(MediaRecorder.AudioEncoder.AMR_NB);

This means that you want to create (record) a file with OUTPUTFORMAT as RAW_AMR

But just providing a file path with a file name as .mp3 I guess would not do. And that might be the problem.

Check details of the items create (long press on the file and click details) it gives some info about the file, like the windows right click properties.