Before Jelly Bean level 18 I can use music files which are not in Media store (for example, a private
.mp3 file in a folder contains .nomedia
file, so Media Scanner does not scan this folder and does not know about this file) but from Android 4.3 (tested on Nexus 4) I can not do that, it only works for music files which are already scanned by Media Scanner.
The real reason of this problem is I cannot insert ContentValues with MediaColumns.DATA is a absolute path of a file not scanned by Media Scanner, insert method always return null.
Uri newUri = getCR().insert(uri, contentValues); // returns null in Android 4.3
Does anyone have a workaround to use a private file (not scanned and not recognized by Media Scanner) as ringtone?
Here is how I set ringtone:
File ringtoneFile = new File(audio.getPath());
ContentValues cv = new ContentValues();
cv.put(MediaColumns.DATA, ringtoneFile.getAbsolutePath());
cv.put(MediaColumns.TITLE, audio.getTitle());
cv.put(MediaColumns.MIME_TYPE, "audio/*");
if (audio.getArtist() != null)
cv.put(Media.ARTIST, audio.getArtist());
cv.put(Media.IS_RINGTONE, true);
cv.put(Media.IS_NOTIFICATION, false);
cv.put(Media.IS_ALARM, false);
cv.put(Media.IS_MUSIC, false);
Uri uri = Media.getContentUriForPath(ringtoneFile.getAbsolutePath());
Uri newUri = getCR().insert(uri, cv); ////return null in Android 4.3
if (newUri == null)
{
Cursor c = getCR().query(uri, new String[] { Media._ID }, Media.DATA + "=?",
new String[] { ringtoneFile.getAbsolutePath() }, null);
long id = -1;
if (c != null && c.moveToFirst())
{
id = c.getLong(c.getColumnIndex(Media._ID));
newUri = Uri.parse(uri.toString() + "/" + id);
c.close();
}
}
if (newUri != null)
{
RingtoneManager.setActualDefaultRingtoneUri(getAppContext(), RingtoneManager.TYPE_RINGTONE, newUri);
}
This is my workaround: