How to check if resource pointed by Uri is available?

I have resource (music file) pointed by Uri. How can I check if it is available before I try to play it with MediaPlayer?

Its Uri is stored in database, so when the file is deleted or on external storage that is unmounted, then I just get exception when I call MediaPlayer.prepare().

In above situation I would like to play systems default ringtone. I could of course do that after I catch above exception, but maybe there is some more elegant solution?

edit: I forgot to mention that music files Uri's are actually acquired by using RingtonePreference. This means that I can get Uri pointing to ringtone on Internal Storage, External Storage or to default systems ringtone.

Uri's examples are:

content://settings/system/ringtone - for choosing default ringtone
content://media/internal/audio/media/60 - for ringtone on Internal Storage
content://media/external/audio/media/192 - for ringtone on External Storage

I was happy with proposed "new File(path).exists() method, as it saved me from mentioned exception, but after some time I noticed that it returns false for all of my ringtone choices... Any other ideas?

Solution

The reason the proposed method doesn't work is because you're using the ContentProvider URI rather than the actual file path. To get the actual file path, you have to use a cursor to get the file.

Assuming String contentUri is equal to the content URI such as content://media/external/audio/media/192

ContentResolver cr = getContentResolver();
String[] projection = {MediaStore.MediaColumns.DATA}
Cursor cur = cr.query(Uri.parse(contentUri), projection, null, null, null);
if (cur != null) {
  if (cur.moveToFirst()) {
    String filePath = cur.getString(0);

    if (new File(filePath).exists()) {
      // do something if it exists
    } else {
      // File was not found
    }
  } else {
     // Uri was ok but no entry found. 
  }
  cur.close();
} else {
  // content Uri was invalid or some other error occurred 
}

I haven't used this method with sound files or internal storage, but it should work. The query should return a single row directly to your file.