(Android MediaPlayer) How am I supposed to call setAudioStreamType() if MediaPlayer.create() implicitly calls prepare()?

Question

I am writing an Android alarm application that uses a Service in order to play the alarm tone. Currently, I am able to get the audio to play, but it plays in a form that can

Answer 1

You can either call mp.reset() and then set the stream type, data source, and then prepare. Alternately just use the default constructor and handle the initialization yourself.

EDIT:

Resources res = getResources();
AssetFileDescriptor afd = res.openRawResourceFd(R.raw.alarm);

mp.reset();
mp.setAudioStreamType(AudioManager.STREAM_ALARM);
mp.setLooping(true);
mp.setDataSource(afd.getFileDescriptor(), afd.getStartOffset(), afd.getLength());
mp.prepare();
mp.start();