nbruley commented on issue #401: URL: https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-media/issues/401#issuecomment-2421040708
I must say, much of this doesn't make sense to me either. That's why I'm posting here. One thing I will say is my app was created quite a long time ago, and at that time it was advantageous to install to SD card if so I used installLocation of "prefer external". My `AndroidPersistentFileLocation` is now set to "compatibility" which I think puts the app data in a different location than I would do if I were creating the app now (with internal setting). If that is the case, creating a new app might not reproduce this exact problem. Would Android default to looking in `ApplicationStorageDirectory` given my config.xml settings and latest changes to Android permissions? I tried `applicationStorageDirectory` just because I wondered if that would be the www folder. [https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/dev/reference/cordova-plugin-file/index.html] states that this location is r/w but `applicationDirectory` is read only. Where are you getting your information about `applicationStorageDirectory` being read only? I am using the file-transfer plugin to download from an online web location to the device. I can see a file produced on the device when I download to `externalRootDirectory` because apparently the emulated SD card is the internal Music directory on my device. Likewise, I do not get a download error when downloading to `applicationStorageDirectory` even though I obviously can't see the file anywhere. However, when trying to play a (missing) file which I never downloaded to `applicationStorageDirectory`, I get a media plugin error that file was not found, whereas if I download it first, I get the Logcat error "failed to connect to localhost" and an undefined error from the media plugin. The errors I'm experiencing are not related to the file-transfer plugin. That plugin works fine. The error occurs when I try to play a file I downloaded with the media plugin. I understand that using the `platform_www` directory is not recommended; however, unlike iOS, I've never been able to get the files from the www folder to update the `platform_www` when rebuilding the app. Maybe you can enlighten me on which step I'm missing, but that's another story and irrelevant to this issue. Perhaps you can respond to the above before I go about trying to figure out how to create a sample reproduction app? I appreciate your time. I do think that creating a new app from scratch with internal instead of external settings would be worthwhile and would potentially solve my problem for future apps. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@cordova.apache.org
