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Play from assets folder

This is the best way...

Pros:

- Can create folders inside and and organize your projects files

- File name can contain spaces and others chars that are not allowed in res folder.

<pre style="background-image: URL(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_z5ltvMQPaa8/SjJXr_U2YBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/46OqEP32CJ8/s320/codebg.gif); background: #f0f0f0; border: 1px dashed #CCCCCC; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: left; width: 99%;"> AssetFileDescriptor afd = context.getAssets().openFd("folder/sound.mp3");
MediaPlayer player = new MediaPlayer();
player.setDataSource(afd.getFileDescriptor(), afd.getStartOffset(), afd.getLength());
player.prepare();
player.start(); </pre><h3>Play from /res/raw</h3><div>You need to use the id for the sound auto-generated in R:</div><div>
</div><pre style="background-image: URL(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_z5ltvMQPaa8/SjJXr_U2YBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/46OqEP32CJ8/s320/codebg.gif); background: #f0f0f0; border: 1px dashed #CCCCCC; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: left; width: 99%;"> MediaPlayer player = MediaPlayer.create(this, R.raw.sound);
player.start();
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