cordova-plugin-media not playing from local URI

// find music file URI from the sdcard
new ExternalStorageSdcardAccess( fileHandler ).scanPath( "file:///storage/C67A-18F7/Music/" );
function fileHandler( fileEntry ) {
    // console.log( fileEntry.name + " | " + fileEntry.toURL() );
}    

// create a button instance
let mbutton = new Button({
  centerX: 0, top: [fbutton,100],
  text: 'play music'  
}).appendTo(ui.contentView);    

// call the play media function from the button
mbutton.on('select', () => {
    // load and play the music:
    playAudio("file:///storage/C67A-18F7/Music/demo/testSound.mp3")

});    

function playAudio(url) {
    // Play the audio file at url
    var my_media = new Media(url,
        // success callback
        function () {
            console.log("playAudio():Audio Success");
        },
        // error callback
        function (err) {
            console.log("playAudio():Audio Error: " + err.code + err.message);
        },
        // status callback
        function (status) {
            console.log("playAudio():Audio Status: " + status);
        }
    );
    // Play audio
    my_media.play();
    my_media.setVolume('1.0');
}

incoming-operation: 'Call' on 'cordova.plugin' (o13) with method 'exec' with properties {action=create, arguments=["d39113d0-b5f5-bf2d-8a84-5afbbc6ae9a0","file:///storage/C67A-18F7/Music/demo/testSound.mp3"], callbackId=Media975330222}
incoming-operation: 'Call' on 'cordova.plugin' (o13) with method 'exec' with properties {action=startPlayingAudio, arguments=["d39113d0-b5f5-bf2d-8a84-5afbbc6ae9a0","file:///storage/C67A-18F7/Music/demo/testSound.mp3",null], callbackId=INVALID}
outgoing-operation: 'Notify' o13 of 'finish' with arguments {message=S01 Media975330222 s, status=1, keepCallback=false, callbackId=Media975330222}
ExtMediaPlayer-JNI: env->IsInstanceOf fails
MediaPlayer-JNI: JNIMediaPlayerFactory: bIsQCMediaPlayerPresent 0
ExtMediaPlayer-JNI: env->IsInstanceOf fails
MediaPlayer-JNI: JNIMediaPlayerFactory: bIsQCMediaPlayerPresent 0