Does it make sense to set up mediaPlayer to run in a separate thread in Android?

Question

I've recently begun experimenting with a mediaPlayer instance in my Android app. I implemented a couple different beeps for feedback to the user. Now, when I implemented an audioTrack (for a completely different purpose), I discovered that it pretty much sets itself up as a separate thread automatically (as far as I can tell). It certainly appears as a separate thread when I run my code in the debugger: Thread [<17> AudioTrackThread] (Running)

My question is: Does mediaPlayer do something similar? My first guess is that it does not -- or I would see thread descriptions in the debugger, right??

Anyway, now I've got to questions: 1) Can I set up my mediaPlayers as separate threads and still have them work right? 2) Does it make sense even to try it?

Thanks, R.

Answer 1

MediaPlayer will still work like its supposed to in a thread, I've done that before so I could still do everything asynchronously without using the callbacks. I wouldn't spawn more than one of them though they use a lot of resources.