Problems with MediaPlayer, raw resources, stop and start

Question

I\'m new to Android development and I have a question/problem.

I\'m playing around with the MediaPlayer class to reproduce some sounds/music. I am playing raw resou

Answer 1

this is how MediaPlayer.create method works to open a raw file:

    public static MediaPlayer create(Context context, int resid) {
         try {
             AssetFileDescriptor afd = context.getResources().openRawResourceFd(resid);
             if (afd == null) return null;

             MediaPlayer mp = new MediaPlayer();
             mp.setDataSource(afd.getFileDescriptor(), afd.getStartOffset(), afd.getLength());
             afd.close();
             mp.prepare();
            return mp;
        } catch (IOException ex) {
            Log.d(TAG, "create failed:", ex);
            // fall through
        } catch (IllegalArgumentException ex) {
            Log.d(TAG, "create failed:", ex);
           // fall through
        } catch (SecurityException ex) {
            Log.d(TAG, "create failed:", ex);
            // fall through
        }
         return null;
    }