Media Player on Android stops sounds all together?

Okay, this is a bit much to post in a comment, so here's what you need to do with setDataSource(). If you check the docs for setDataSource() you'll see that it requires a FileDescriptor . You can acquire one for a Raw resource like so.

From your code, it looks like you are creating MediaPlayer on click. But I don't see any code to stop / release it. So your application may be running out of resources, finally stopping additional media player content.

That is why after couple of shake events, this issue is propping up.

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