MediaPlayer : Should have subtitle controller already set: KitKat

Question

I am having an odd issue where my audio file sometimes plays and sometimes does not play. The catch is that when it decides to not play, the DDMS gives me an:

Answer 1

Its been a long time since I was working on this app. Here is what I ended up doing to get this to work. (Tested on KitKat and Lollipop). I think switching from MediaPlayer to APMediaPlayer was part of the trick.

@Override
public void onDestroy() {
    if(player != null) {
        player.release();
        player = null;
    }
    super.onDestroy();
}


@Override
public void onStart() {
    super.onStart();
    if(player != null) {
        player.start();
    }
    else {
        player = new APMediaPlayer(this); //create new APMediaPlayer
        player.setMediaFile("Theme.mp3"); //set the file (files are in data folder)
        player.start(); //start play back
        player.setLooping(true); //restart playback end reached
        player.setVolume(1, 1); //Set left and right volumes. Range is from 0.0 to 1.0
    }

}

@Override
public void onResume() {
    super.onResume();
    if(player != null) {
        player.start();
    }

}