android how to know ringtone length - android

I'm working on a sample code same as http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media, I'm successfully playing the ringtone, but I want to know the length of the ringtone(in sec) or atleast a notification after end of the ringtone, so that i have to do some other task after playing the ringtone.
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nehatha

Put it in a MediaPlayer. You dont have to play it just .prepare() it. Then you can ask MediaPlayer about the duration.

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It is not possible as such.
You are talking about the ringing tone, also called ringback tone sometimes. It is not generated by the Android system, but the switching system, so you don't have access to it from the API.
To include that sound in your app, you have to include an asset for that sound (mp3).

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No errors, no warnings, no crashes. Just no sound.
My users are complaining as well, so it doesn't look like a device specific issue.
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Don't create a Ringtone or MediaPlayer in a BroadcastReceiver!
The problem was the context of the Ringtone or MediaPlayer. By triggering the sound form a broadcast receiver a new MediaPlayer or Ringtone was created every time the sound played. After 28 times, the sound just didn't play anymore.
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I would do neither. First, none of this is part of the SDK and so may change at any point. Second, this will only work for the built-in media player application, not any third-party or OEM-supplied media players, and I expect more people to gravitate to those.

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