Ok so I've been working on this project for a few days now and most of my time has been working out how to list all the music on a device in a LIST VIEW or something else, I have searched for a few days now and this is killing me. I did get so close at one point with all the music in one folder showing, though since most people will have sub folders for things like artiest and albums I need a way to search sub folders for MP3s or music files.
Here is what I have so far for Music collection:
package com.androidhive.musicplayer;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FilenameFilter;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import android.provider.MediaStore;
public class SongsManager {
// SDCard Path
final String MEDIA_PATH = new String(MediaStore.Audio.Media.getContentUri("external").toString());
private ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>> songsList = new ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>>();
// Constructor
public SongsManager(){
}
/**
* Function to read all mp3 files from sdcard
* and store the details in ArrayList
* */
public ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>> getPlayList(){
File home = new File(MEDIA_PATH);
if (home.listFiles(new FileExtensionFilter()).length > 0) {
for (File file : home.listFiles(new FileExtensionFilter())) {
HashMap<String, String> song = new HashMap<String, String>();
song.put("songTitle", file.getName().substring(0, (file.getName().length() - 4)));
song.put("songPath", file.getPath());
// Adding each song to SongList
songsList.add(song);
}
}
// return songs list array
return songsList;
}
/**
* Class to filter files which are having .mp3 extension
* */
class FileExtensionFilter implements FilenameFilter {
public boolean accept(File dir, String name) {
return (name.endsWith(".mp3") || name.endsWith(".MP3"));
}
}
}
Thanks to anyone who can help. :)
Although, the post is old, for other people like me to get the idea of creating a list of music with their file path, I added the solution here. MediaStore.Audio.Media.DATA
column actually contains media file path. You can get necessary information by using the following snippet:
ContentResolver cr = getActivity().getContentResolver();
Uri uri = MediaStore.Audio.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI;
String selection = MediaStore.Audio.Media.IS_MUSIC + "!= 0";
String sortOrder = MediaStore.Audio.Media.TITLE + " ASC";
Cursor cur = cr.query(uri, null, selection, null, sortOrder);
int count = 0;
if(cur != null)
{
count = cur.getCount();
if(count > 0)
{
while(cur.moveToNext())
{
String data = cur.getString(cur.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Audio.Media.DATA));
// Add code to get more column here
// Save to your list here
}
}
cur.close();
}