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Matt Smith
Matt Smith

Reputation: 975

Searching for music files with mediastore

I have been researching this for hours now. I've looked at android javadoc - MediaStore and I just don't get it. I've looked for examples. Nothing.

I want to search the music library for a string. I have the main idea in my mind (get music library DB, search it like you would a sqlite DB) but I literally have no idea how to do it.

I have also found the URI for external SD media files - MediaStore.Audio.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI,

but I don't really know what to do with this.

Some starting points would be nice..

Thank you.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 4751

Answers (1)

Ken Wolf
Ken Wolf

Reputation: 23279

The MediaStore more or less is an sqlite DB. There are many ways to query it. By album, by artist, by playlist, by song, and so on. This will return a Cursor of all songs, for example.

Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(
    MediaStore.Audio.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI, 
    null, 
    null, 
    null, 
    MediaStore.Audio.Media.TITLE + " ASC");

You can then get specific columns from it like so:

while (cursor.moveToNext()) {
    String title = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Audio.Media.TITLE));
    // Whatever else you need
}

Upvotes: 6

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