# Android Audio Streamning

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/android-audio-streamning/43136>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [May 28, 2014, 11:03am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/android-audio-streamning/43136 "2014-05-28T11:03:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![Davin\_Bergstrom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@Davin\_Bergstrom](https://community.wowza.com/u/Davin_Bergstrom)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 11:03am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/android-audio-streamning/43136/1 "2014-05-28T11:03:59Z")

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How can I support Android streaming audio without a empty video?

IOS, MP3 as playlist Audio Stream Works

[http://wowza.example.com:1935/myapp/mp3:128.mp3/playlist.m3u8](http://wowza.example.com:1935/myapp/mp3:128.mp3/playlist.m3u8)

Android, AAC in MP4 Wrapper Works

rtsp://wowza.example.com:1935/myapp/audio.mp4

Android over RTSP using AAC and MP3 do not work

rtsp://wowza.example.com:1935/myapp/audio.mp3

rtsp://wowza.example.com:1935/myapp/audio.aac

Thanks in advance

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**Author:** ![Tim\_Dougherty](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/tim_dougherty/32/596_2.png) [@Tim\_Dougherty](https://community.wowza.com/u/Tim_Dougherty)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 12:03pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/android-audio-streamning/43136/2 "2014-05-28T12:03:31Z")

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Davin,

Try prepending the URL according to the format:

```auto
rtsp://wowza.example.com:1935/myapp/mp3:audio.mp3
rtsp://wowza.example.com:1935/myapp/mp4:audio.aac

```

> **Note:** For live workflows, Android will only support AAC audio

> **Note:** With Wowza Streaming Engine 4.x, prepending the ‘mp4:’ is not necessary with MP4 files as this is inserted by default. Other formats (i.e. FLV, MP3) do require the prefix.

I hope you find this helpful.

-Tim

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**Author:** ![sal\_jefferson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@sal\_jefferson](https://community.wowza.com/u/sal_jefferson)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 1:41pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/android-audio-streamning/43136/3 "2014-05-28T13:41:34Z")

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Hi there,

Take look at the mobile troubleshooting guide:

[How to troubleshoot RTSP/RTP playback](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-troubleshoot-rtsp-rtp-playback)

Under Device Capabilities / Android, it talks about mp3 capability.

Salvadore

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**Author:** ![Davin\_Bergstrom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@Davin\_Bergstrom](https://community.wowza.com/u/Davin_Bergstrom)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 12:43pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/android-audio-streamning/43136/4 "2014-05-28T12:43:34Z")

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Thanks for the response, I did see that earlier so I was trying AAC, but it had the same problems. Any other ideas?

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Lanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 9:18pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/android-audio-streamning/43136/5 "2014-05-28T21:18:11Z")

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Use an mp4 or other quicktime container (.mov, .3gp, etc) that only has an AAC audio track, and prefix with mp4:

mp4:audio.mp4

Richard

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**Author:** ![Davin\_Bergstrom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@Davin\_Bergstrom](https://community.wowza.com/u/Davin_Bergstrom)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 1:40pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/android-audio-streamning/43136/6 "2014-05-28T13:40:54Z")

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Using rtsp://wowza.example.com:1935/myapp/mp4:audio.aac I get “Sorry, this video cannot be played” using Galaxy S5 and Nexus 7. For clarity were are only using VOD.

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**Author:** ![Davin\_Bergstrom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@Davin\_Bergstrom](https://community.wowza.com/u/Davin_Bergstrom)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 12:13pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/android-audio-streamning/43136/7 "2014-06-16T12:13:52Z")

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Just went the empty video route.

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**Author:** ![Nicolas\_Rodriguez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5e9695/32.png) [@Nicolas\_Rodriguez](https://community.wowza.com/u/Nicolas_Rodriguez)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2014, 1:48pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/android-audio-streamning/43136/8 "2014-06-14T13:48:42Z")

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> Using rtsp://wowza.example.com:1935/myapp/mp4:audio.aac I get “Sorry, this video cannot be played” using Galaxy S5 and Nexus 7. For clarity were are only using VOD.

Hi DavinB, were you able to fix the problem? Im interested on the same thing.

Were you able to create a playlist so the player goes through a list of files without having to give the URI to each one?

Thanks!