Question

I have a strange problem when playing music files with the mediaplayer.

The playback starts without any problems and everything works fine. The app doesn’t crash. But everytime I select a song I get the following LogCatError:

11-18 16:26:19.800: E/MediaPlayer(11367): setDataSource JAVA path

11-18 16:26:19.800: E/MediaPlayer-JNI(11367): setDataSource: outside
path in JNI is ?x@

11-18 16:26:19.855: E/MediaPlayer(11367): In prepareAsync

11-18 16:26:20.005: W/MediaPlayer(11367): info/warning (1, 44)

I don’t download the files from the internet, I just play the songs stored on the device.

If nobody could give me a solution, it would be nice if anybody could explain the error to me.

Answer 1

Use try catch around you mediaplayer datasource, like this:

try {
                mp.setDataSource(getApplicationContext(), ringtoneUri);
            } catch (IllegalArgumentException e1) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e1.printStackTrace();
            } catch (SecurityException e1) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e1.printStackTrace();
            } catch (IllegalStateException e1) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e1.printStackTrace();
            } catch (IOException e1) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e1.printStackTrace();
            }

You have to catch all Exceptions.
This worked for me.