title: Play sound as system sound
body: <p>Is it possible to play an MP3 file in Android as system sound?</p>
  
  <p>My problem is that I am developing an application that should play different SMS tones when the application receives an SMS from a particular phonenumber.
  In the way it is working right now, I'm using a combination of <code>MediPlayer</code>, <code>AssetFileDescriptor</code> and <code>AudioManager</code> to play the MP3 file, and it's working OK except for one big bug: if user has lowered the media volume to 0, the received sms will be missed because the MP3 cannot be heard.</p>
  
  <p>So, it is possible to get a MP3 file to play using the system sound player? Or get the mediaplayer to use the system sound volume settings?</p>