java - Sound not replaying on onTouchListener -

so have button that, when held, play sound. however, not seem "reset" , never plays sound again when hold down button again.

e/mediaplayer﹕ start called in state 0 e/mediaplayer﹕ error (-38, 0)

error in log when try hold button down again. here code:

@override protected void oncreate(bundle savedinstancestate) {   final mediaplayer bark = mediaplayer.create(this, r.raw.bark);     super.oncreate(savedinstancestate);     setcontentview(r.layout.activity_main);     playsound = (button) findviewbyid(r.id.btn);      playsound.setontouchlistener(new view.ontouchlistener() {         @override         public boolean ontouch(view v, motionevent event) {             switch (event.getaction()) {                 case motionevent.action_down:                     if(!bark.isplaying()) bark.start();                     break;                 case motionevent.action_up:                     if(bark.isplaying()) bark.stop();                     break;             }             return true;         }     }); } 

instead of calling start/stop can call start/pause seekto():

           case motionevent.action_down:                 if(!bark.isplaying()) bark.start();                 break;             case motionevent.action_up:                 if(bark.isplaying()){                 bark.pause();                 bark.seekto(0);                 }                 break; 

if want use start/stop, make sure call prepare() before calling start() again.

the reason why code isn't working because according state diagram stop() stops playing , puts mp in stopped state. before starting play next time, should call prepare() , start() again.

edit : place music file in assets folder , use file descriptor. way can reset mp , replay:

using start/stop:

@override protected void oncreate(bundle savedinstancestate) { assetmanager assetmanager=context.getassets(); assetfiledescriptor filedescriptor = assetmanager.openfd("bark.mp3"); //replace right extension         super.oncreate(savedinstancestate);     setcontentview(r.layout.activity_main); playsound = (button) findviewbyid(r.id.btn); playsound.setontouchlistener(new view.ontouchlistener() {     @override     public boolean ontouch(view v, motionevent event) {         switch (event.getaction()) {                  case motionevent.action_down:                     if(!bark.isplaying()){                      bark.reset();                     bark.setdatasource(filedescriptor.getfiledescriptor());                     bark.prepare();                     bark.start();                     }                     break;                 case motionevent.action_up:                     if(bark.isplaying())                     bark.stop();                                             break;          }             return true;         }     }); }