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For a webradio client I’m writing, I wanted to play an mp3 stream.

The following code plays an online mp3 file without any problems but refused to play the infinite mp3 stream:

 player = MediaPlayer {

            media : Media { 
                source: streamUrl

            }

        }

        player.play();

After spending some time on google looking for the result, I came across a solution in Java that uses the Javazoom JLayer player to process the mp3 stream.

While I was implementing this, a colleague came up with a much better solution… Just set the repeatCount property of the javafx MediaPlayer to “REPEAT_FOREVER” and it will play an infinite mp3 stream. I never thought of this myself because it looked logical to me that this property is just used to identify how many times you want to play a certain audio file. But anyway, it works great now and makes it really easy to create a webradio client.

So the final code is:

 player = MediaPlayer {
    
            repeatCount: MediaPlayer.REPEAT_FOREVER 

    
            media : Media { 

    
                source: streamUrl 

    
            } 

    
        } 

    
        player.play();