title: Getting streaming audio to play with MediaPlayer class on Android?
body: <p>Hello I am currently new to android development I been working on the examples in the Dev Guide in the android website. I want to get a stream from a server I have to play in the emulator when I insert the url it doesn't seam to want to play. My question is there a way to get the emulator to play audio or is it all enabled also does <code>MediaPlayer</code> require a special kind of format like mp3 or ogg ? 
  This is the code i am running on my 'onCreate()' method.</p>
  
  <pre><code>MediaPlayer mp - new MediaPlayer();
  mp.setDataSource(MY_URL_);
  mp.prepare();
  mp.start();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Hope you guys can help my out.</p>