2. MediaPlayer mediaPlayer = new MediaPlayer();
3. assetManager = this.getAssets();
4. 
   
5. public void buildMediaPlayer()
6.  {
7.    try {
8.      AssetFileDescriptor fd = assetManager.openFd("songTitle.ogg");
9.      mediaPlayer.setDataSource(fd.getFileDescriptor(), fd.getStartOffset(), fd.getLength());
10.      mediaPlayer.prepare();
11.   } 
12. catch (IOException e) {
13.     print("OOOOPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS");
14.     e.printStackTrace(); 
15.   }
16.  }

and although it builds properly the program will not open on the phone because of a null pointer error.

interestingly it doesnt pint OOOOPPPPPSSS in the terminal, and my song file is right there in the data folder waiting to get copied over to /assets. 

So ive read up a bit on alternate ways to declare the datasource using files stored in res/raw, but i dont know enough to figure out how to set that up easily.

anyone got any ideas?