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copied!<p>I'm new to Android development and I have a question/problem. </p> <p>I'm playing around with the MediaPlayer class to reproduce some sounds/music. I am playing raw resources (<code>res/raw</code>) and it looks kind of easy.</p> <p>To play a raw resource, the MediaPlayer has to be initialized like this:</p> <p><pre><code> MediaPlayer mp = MediaPlayer.create(appContext, R.raw.song); mp.start(); </pre></code></p> <p>Until here there is no problem. The sound is played, and everything works fine. My problem appears when I want to add more options to my application. Specifically when I add the "Stop" button/option.</p> <p>Basically, what I want to do is...when I press "Stop", the music stops. And when I press "Start", the song/sound starts over. (pretty basic!)</p> <p>To stop the media player, you only have to call <code>stop()</code>. But to play the sound again, the media player has to be reseted and prepared.</p> <p><pre><code> mp.reset(); mp.setDataSource(params); mp.prepare(); </pre></code></p> <p>The problem is that the method <code>setDataSource()</code> only accepts as params a file path, Content Provider URI, streaming media URL path, or File Descriptor.</p> <p>So, since this method doesn't accept a resource identifier, I don't know how to set the data source in order to call <code>prepare()</code>. In addition, I don't understand why you can't use a Resouce identifier to set the data source, but you can use a resource identifier when initializing the MediaPlayer.</p> <p>I guess I'm missing something. I wonder if I am mixing concepts, and the method <code>stop()</code> doesn't have to be called in the "Stop" button. Any help?</p> <p>Thanks in advance!!!</p>

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