Error creating MediaPlayer with Uri or file in assets

Question

I copied song.mp3 to my project's assets directory and wrote this code:

private MediaPlayer mp;

Uri uri = Uri.parse("file:///android_asset/song.mp3");

mp=MediaPlayer.create(this, uri);

After running the create statement, the variable mp is null. What is wrong?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Try this:

try {
    AssetFileDescriptor afd = getAssets().openFd("AudioFile.mp3");
    player = new MediaPlayer();
    player.setDataSource(afd.getFileDescriptor(),afd.getStartOffset(),afd.getLength());
    player.prepare();
    player.start();
    } 
catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {    } 
catch (IllegalStateException e) { } 
catch (IOException e) { } 

Answer 2

Try this and see if any exceptions are caught:

try {
    MediaPlayer mp = new MediaPlayer();
    mp.setDataSource(this, uri);
}
catch (NullReferenceArgument e) {
    Log.d(TAG, "NullReferenceException: " + e.getMessage());
}
catch (IllegalStateException e) {
    Log.d(TAG, "IllegalStateException: " + e.getMessage());
}
catch (IOException e) {
    Log.d(TAG, "IOException: " + e.getMessage());
}
catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
    Log.d(TAG, "IllegalArgumentException: " + e.getMessage());
}
catch (SecurityException e) {
    Log.d(TAG, "SecurityException: " + e.getMessage());
}

The exception caught will explain what is going wrong in your create. According the the docs, the static create method is just shorthand for what is in the try block above. The major difference that I can see is that the static method create doesn't throw while setDataSource does.

Answer 3

You'd better try this on the devices running on Android N or the latest:

try {
    AssetFileDescriptor afd = getAssets().openFd("*.mp3 / *.mp4");
    player = new MediaPlayer();
    player.setOnPreparedListener(new MediaPlayer.OnPreparedListener() {
        @Override
        public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) {
            mp.start();
        }
    });
    player.setDataSource(afd);
    player.prepareAsync();
    player.start();
} catch (...) {
}

else, do like the best answer below.