I have been looking everywhere how to play a ringtone/alarm sound in android.

I press a button and I want to play a ringtone/alarm sound. I could not find a easy, straightforward sample. Yes, I already looked at Alarm clock source code... but it is not straightforward and I cannot compile it.

I cannot make this work:

 Uri alert = RingtoneManager.getDefaultUri(RingtoneManager.TYPE_ALARM); 
 mMediaPlayer = new MediaPlayer();
 mMediaPlayer.setDataSource(this, alert);
 final AudioManager audioManager = (AudioManager)getSystemService(Context.AUDIO_SERVICE);
 if (audioManager.getStreamVolume(AudioManager.STREAM_ALARM) != 0) {
            player.setAudioStreamType(AudioManager.STREAM_ALARM);
            player.setLooping(true);
            player.prepare();
            player.start();
  }

I get this error:

04-11 17:15:27.638: ERROR/MediaPlayerService(30): Couldn't open fd for content://settings/system/ringtone

So.. please if somebody knows how to play a default ringtone/alarm let me know.

I prefer not to upload any file. Just play a default ringtone.