Extract album cover from mp3 file in android

Question

Hello Everyone , In my media player i need to display the album cover(i dont know how it pronounced actually..I hope right) of the song. I knew for that i have to extract the image from the song itself but how? m wondering. So any help, if possible with some sorts of code. Thanks.

Duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1954434/cover-art-on-android — Rajesh, Apr 18 '12 at 12:46

score 22 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 19 '19 at 20:50

for api 10 and above

android.media.MediaMetadataRetriever mmr = new MediaMetadataRetriever();
        mmr.setDataSource(songsList.get(songIndex).get("songPath"));

        byte [] data = mmr.getEmbeddedPicture();
               //coverart is an Imageview object

        // convert the byte array to a bitmap
        if(data != null)
        {
            Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(data, 0, data.length);
            coverart.setImageBitmap(bitmap); //associated cover art in bitmap
        }
        else
        {
            coverart.setImageResource(R.drawable.fallback_cover); //any default cover resourse folder
        }

            coverart.setAdjustViewBounds(true);
            coverart.setLayoutParams(new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(500, 500));

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 26 '13 at 03:41

Try FFmpegMediaMetadataRetriever:

FFmpegMediaMetadataRetriever retriever = new FFmpegMediaMetadataRetriever();
retriever.setDataSource(uri);
byte [] data = retriever.getEmbeddedPicture();

// convert the byte array to a bitmap
Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(data, 0, data.length);
// do something with the image ...
// mImageView.setImageBitmap(bitmap);

retriever.release();

Silambarasan · Answer 3 · 2019-10-19T13:22:45.787

You can try with Picasso by using album_id. it is open source & less memory cache.

Dependency:

implementation 'com.squareup.picasso:picasso:2.71828'

Code:

String albumId = songObject.getAlbum_id();

final Uri albumUri = Uri.parse("content://media/external/audio/albumart");

Uri uri = ContentUris.withAppendedId(albumUri, Long.parseLong(albumId));

    Picasso.get().load(uri)
            .fit()
            .centerCrop()
            .error(R.drawable.img_album)
            .into(holder.imgAlbumSongObject);

This is very late. but, may help someone.

score -2 · Answer 4 · edited Feb 04 '14 at 08:10

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 MediaMetadataRetriever mmr = new MediaMetadataRetriever();
 mmr.setDataSource(filePath);

String albumName = mmr.extractMetadata(MediaMetadataRetriever.METADATA_KEY_ALBUM));

Note this will work only at api level 10 or above

edited Feb 04 '14 at 08:10

Nikhil Goswami

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answered Nov 24 '13 at 11:29

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you should comment the code better, at least type in `Try this:`, better place a link to MediaMetaDataRetriever reference... – nio Nov 24 '13 at 11:48
this does not answer the question of how to extract album artwork (image) – Vladyslav Matviienko Nov 30 '17 at 09:46
This is retrieving the album name (if set), not the album cover image. – w0mbat Apr 11 '23 at 21:43

Extract album cover from mp3 file in android

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