MediaPlayer throws illegalstateexception

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edit3: Ahaaa! MP crashed when SP "gives sample 14 not READY"... edit 2: I also have a SoundPool in my activity what plays short sound effects and, obviously, it somehow kills the MediaPlayer. Like the MediaPlayer loads, plays about a second and then dies when SP is loaded. If I load MediaPlayer at a later time, when SP is already loaded, MP will start playing fine, but will die if I play a few sound FX in SP... old: I'm trying to play a music sound file, about 2 minutes long... ``` try { MediaPlayer mp = MediaPlayer.create(main.this, R.raw.naturesounds ); mp.prepare(); mp.start(); } catch (IllegalStateException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } ``` yet it throws ``` 06-29 16:50:52.359: E/MediaPlayer(3772): prepareAsync called in state 8 06-29 16:50:52.359: W/System.err(3772): java.lang.IllegalStateException 06-29 16:50:52.359: W/System.err(3772): at android.media.MediaPlayer.prepare(Native Method) 06-29 16:50:52.359: W/System.err(3772): at engi…

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Example from the develop docs on MediaPlayer:

```
mp.setOnPreparedListener(new MediaPlayer.OnPreparedListener() {
    @Override
    public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer arg0) {
        mp.start();

}
});
//Below this line is the example from docs.
/*----------------------------------------------------*/
MediaPlayer mediaPlayer = MediaPlayer.create(context, R.raw.sound_file_1);
//mediaPlayer.start(); // no need to call prepare(); create() does that for you
```

Your MediaPlayer is already Prepared() you don't need to call that after create.

MediaPlayer throws illegalstateexception

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