apache / apache/cordova-plugin-media

Android 14 Won't Play MP3 files

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Description

# Bug Report

## Problem

On Android 14 (Pixel 5) I can no longer play MP3 files from the bundle either directly or via https://localhost.

Using Cordova Android 12.0.1 and cordova-plugin-media 7.0.0

I'm using Vite, so all of the files end up in assets/sound-abc123.mp3

Not doing anything fancy, just:

let foo = new Media('assets/sound-abc123.mp3') or https://localhost/assets/sound-abc123.mp3
foo.play()

/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.bundle.id/files/assets/sound-abc123.mp3: open failed: ENOENT (No such file or directory)

It WILL play, however, from the internet, i.e., new Media('https://some.website.abc/foo.mp3')

Thanks for any help!

### What is expected to happen?

The sound should play.

### What does actually happen?

I get a code 1 (or file not found when I experiment with other ways to get the file)

## Information

This code worked on Android 12.

### Command or Code

let foo = new Media('assets/sound-abc123.mp3') or https://localhost/assets/sound-abc123.mp3
foo.play()

### Environment, Platform, Device

Android 14, Pixel 5

### Version information

## Checklist

- [X ] I searched for existing GitHub issues
- [X ] I updated all Cordova tooling to most recent version
- [X ] I included all the necessary information above

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

Start by reproducing the Media constructor and play() calls on Android 14 with the bundled assets/sound-abc123.mp3 path and the https://localhost URL. Compare those failures with the working remote MP3 case; the issue is done when bundled MP3 files play successfully on Android 14.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
android, java, javascript
Domain
audio-video-rtc, mobile-dev
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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