Android Mediaplayer Error(1, -2147483648) When Playing An Mp3 Locally

Shortly after Android 4.4 came out my code which has been working correctly since 2.2 suddenly went buggy. My code will query the music database for a given music file. The path i

Solution 1:

I got around this with the (unfortunate) solution of adding a write permission to the app.

<uses-permissionandroid:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />

Apparently this is necessary from 4.4 onward. Can anybody confirm or deny this?

Sean