How to .release() the MediaPlayer instantiated by RingtoneManager?

Question

I'm getting a default Ringtone in my Activity:

remindRingtoneView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.remind_ringtone);

remindRingtoneView.setText(RingtoneManager.getRingtone(
            NewReminder.this, ringtone_uri).getTitle(
            NewReminder.this));

After this line I've got a debug line in LogCat with tag = 'Ringtone' and message =

'Successfully created a local player'.

When I finished Activity and system garbage collector do it's good job I got a warn message in LogCat =

'MediaPlayer finalized without being released'.

How I can release it?

Answer is:

Ringtone remind_ringtone = RingtoneManager.getRingtone(
            NewReminder.this, ringtone_uri);        
remindRingtoneView.setText(remind_ringtone.getTitle(NewReminder.this));
remind_ringtone.stop();

Answer 1

In your program, RingtoneManager.getRingtone will return an object to Ringtone class. If we consider this object to be mRingTone, then invoking mRingTone.stop() will release the MediaPlayer object.