Querying mp3 cover image using glide

Question

I've been developing an android music player and I would like to load the cover image which each mp3 tag has. I previously used the following code to extract the image but, when the list view is starts scrolling it gives a lot of errors and the app crashes at random times. The code is as following.

MediaMetadataRetriever retrieve = new MediaMetadataRetriever();
retrieve.setDataSource(songsList.get(songIndex).get("songPath"));

byte [] data = mmr.getEmbeddedPicture();

This throws an error saying the following message and at random points the application crashes.

getEmbeddedPicture: Call to getEmbeddedPicture failed

So I used the glide library to load the images using the following code.

Glide.with(parent.getContext()).load(currSong.getPath())
            .placeholder(R.drawable.default_img).into(holder.albumImage);

The thing is I pass the song path to the load function but doesn't load any image to it! I logged the path and it shows the correct path to the mp3 file.

How can I load the images using the Glide library! If there is a tutorial on this, please be kind enough to let me know.

This link shows Glide Example. Answer is quite old so it may not work now. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1954434/cover-art-on-android — Vivek Mishra, Dec 28 '16 at 12:48

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 28 '16 at 13:05

I did the following to retrieve and set the image in the list.

To retrieve album art for the song:- This is the query

final Cursor mCursor = getContentResolver().query(
                MediaStore.Audio.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI,
                new String[]{MediaStore.Audio.Media.DISPLAY_NAME, MediaStore.Audio.Media.DATA, MediaStore.Audio.Media.ALBUM_ID}, null, null,
                "LOWER(" + MediaStore.Audio.Media.TITLE + ") ASC");

To capture URI

long album_id=mCursor.getLong(mCursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(MediaStore.Audio.Media.ALBUM_ID));
Uri sArtworkUri = Uri.parse("content://media/external/audio/albumart");
Uri albumArtUri = ContentUris.withAppendedId(sArtworkUri, album_id);

And then to set in list via Adapter

Uri uri=Uri.parse(data.get(position).getAlbum_art());
        try {
            bitmap =  MediaStore.Images.Media.getBitmap(ctx.getContentResolver(), uri);
            holder.image.setImageBitmap(bitmap);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

Could u explain the `data.get(position).getAlbum_art()` code segment! I am unable to make a link to the rest of the code you've added! — Imesh Chandrasiri, Dec 28 '16 at 13:28
Actually I was adding all the uri's from the above into a custom arraylist and later fetching uri(Album Art) from that arraylist — Vivek Mishra, Dec 28 '16 at 13:30
oh ok! so for me, I should only parse the `albumArtUri` from the previous code? — Imesh Chandrasiri, Dec 28 '16 at 13:32

Querying mp3 cover image using glide

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