How to get thumbnails of audio files by using MediaStore

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I am now working on a simple music player and i need to get the thumbnail art of all audio files.

String selection = MediaStore.Audio.Media.IS_MUSIC + " != 0";

    String[] projection = {
            MediaStore.Audio.Media._ID,
            MediaStore.Audio.Media.ARTIST,
            MediaStore.Audio.Media.TITLE,
            MediaStore.Audio.Media.DATA,
            MediaStore.Audio.Media.DISPLAY_NAME,
            MediaStore.Audio.Media.DURATION,
            MediaStore.Audio.Media.YEAR
    };
    cursor = getBaseContext().getContentResolver().query(MediaStore.Audio.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI,
            projection, selection, null, null);
    while(cursor.moveToNext()) {

        name.add(cursor.getString(4));
        path.add(cursor.getString(3));
        duration.add(cursor.getString(5));
    }

how can i get it ? Thanks in advance.

Possible duplicate of [How can I display Album Art using MediaStore.Audio.Albums.ALBUM\_ART?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17573972/how-can-i-display-album-art-using-mediastore-audio-albums-album-art) — Yoav Feuerstein, Dec 06 '18 at 12:38
@YoavFeuerstein I appreciate that you found a better answered question. But this question is asked before your suggested one. Check the asked date. — Alex Chengalan, Dec 07 '18 at 04:43

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:11

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You might want to look at this answer I gave on a similar issue. You will need to give the Uri of the song you to get the cover art on.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:11

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answered Jun 09 '13 at 18:17

phxhawke

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he asked about `MediaStore`, not `MediaMetadataRetriever` – user924 Sep 17 '17 at 10:23
@user924 `MediaMetadataRetriever` is how you access the album art. – phxhawke Sep 28 '18 at 14:46
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`MediaMetadataRetriever` is used to get picture directly from audio file (.mp3) which is slow. Android does it for us periodically, so it has Mediastore library from which we can get info and I suppose thumbnail of audio files. I mean author didn't ask general question about how to get thumbnail he asked how to get it using MediaStore – user924 Sep 28 '18 at 16:12

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 20 '20 at 08:23

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According to the documentation, it should be:

Bitmap image = ThumbnailUtils.createAudioThumbnail("your file name", MediaStore.Images.Thumbnails.MICRO_KIND);

This might work for you. (Though it crashes with a NoSuchMethodError in Marshmellow).

edited Apr 20 '20 at 08:23

Bhargav Rao

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answered Apr 20 '20 at 07:22

kai klimscha

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How to get thumbnails of audio files by using MediaStore

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