how to connect AudioClip at local file

Question

I downloaded the .mp3 file from the server and stored it in my android persistentDataPath. But I do not know how to connect .mp3 files to AudioClip. Please let me know if there is a workaround for this.

Answer 1

Update

As pointed out in the comments WWW now supports .mp3 files making it the way to go.

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class ExampleClass : MonoBehaviour {
    public string url;
    public AudioSource source;
    void Start() {
        WWW www = new WWW(url);
        source = GetComponent<AudioSource>();
        source.clip = www.audioClip;
    }
    void Update() {
        if (!source.isPlaying && source.clip.isReadyToPlay)
            source.Play();

    }
}

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Original answer:

Audio clip doesn't accept a file. It accepts an array of floats.

You can use NAudio to convert the compressed MP3 to a WAV file.

using NAudio;
using NAudio.Wave;
// ....

using (Mp3FileReader reader = new Mp3FileReader(mp3File))
{
    WaveFileWriter.CreateWaveFile(outputFile, reader);
}

You will then need to read the wave file which will basically have a header followed by the chunk data. The chunk data can be converted to a float and sent to your audio clip.