How do I access the MediaMetadataRetriever.setDataSource(...) status codes?

I didn't have an empty file or any other of the here mentioned bugs in my code. The files I tried to use were fine. I don't exactly know why, but it worked for me when I simply used another overload of setDataSource.

The ones I used that threw this exception were MediaMetadataRetriever.setDataSource(String) and MediaMetadataRetriever.setDataSource(String, HashMap)

The one that simply worked was MediaMetadataRetriever.setDataSource(Context, URI).

I got this error java.lang.RuntimeException: setDataSource failed: status = 0xFFFFFFEA when tried to call void setDataSource(String path) on an empty file. (0 bytes)

You need to be 100% sure that path for the file is not null, not empty, the file itself exists and valid.