Android: List all music files

List music files

//Retrieve a list of Music files currently listed in the Media store DB via URI.

//Some audio may be explicitly marked as not being music
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
};

cursor = this.managedQuery(
	MediaStore.Audio.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI,
	projection,
	selection,
	null,
	null);

private List<String> songs = new ArrayList<String>();
while(cursor.moveToNext()){
	songs.add(cursor.getString(0) + "||" + cursor.getString(1) + "||" +   cursor.getString(2) + "||" +   cursor.getString(3) + "||" +  cursor.getString(4) + "||" +  cursor.getString(5));
}

How to use it?

@Lalubhai https://gist.github.com/kaecy/6b9a190aa25578d4370a0c5d5a09edc8

is not getting mp4 files

As i scroll it fast it gives me less song list. but if i scroll it slow it gives me more song.

Thank you very much
I was looking for a list of songs for a few days
And I found it here.
Thank You

any body knows how this is done on android Q , i have tried and this does not work and MediaStore.Audio.Media.DATA is deprecated too

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Hello every one, i recently created and Android class library for actions concerning the MediaStore and acces to media content on a device, It Called MediaFacer and it also support android 10 and 11 MediaStore changes. and it very easy to use

@shakeelAhmad123 what you are asking for can be done in few lines of code with MediaFacer
read this Medium article to understand how it works https://android.jlelse.eu/handling-media-files-with-mediafacer-library-for-android-cd9d2ca0dc68?source=friends_link&sk=02eb8a77e0d9f1958045a39550f0e3a0

MediaFacer on GitHub https://github.com/CodeBoy722/MediaFacer

Hello every one, i recently created and Android class library for actions concerning the MediaStore and acces to media content on a device, It Called MediaFacer and it also support android 10 and 11 MediaStore changes. and it very easy to use

@shakeelAhmad123 what you are asking for can be done in few lines of code with MediaFacer
read this Medium article to understand how it works https://android.jlelse.eu/handling-media-files-with-mediafacer-library-for-android-cd9d2ca0dc68?source=friends_link&sk=02eb8a77e0d9f1958045a39550f0e3a0

MediaFacer on GitHub https://github.com/CodeBoy722/MediaFacer

Thank you so much for this amazing work, this part is making me cry for months and your library helped me learn a lot, I really appreciate your work :)

Thtat greate Thank you so much

Is using a content provider the right way to go about it? That is if you want to go from scratch?

Hello every one, i recently created and Android class library for actions concerning the MediaStore and acces to media content on a device, It Called MediaFacer and it also support android 10 and 11 MediaStore changes. and it very easy to use

@shakeelAhmad123 what you are asking for can be done in few lines of code with MediaFacer read this Medium article to understand how it works android.jlelse.eu/handling-media-files-with-mediafacer-library-for-android-cd9d2ca0dc68?source=friends_link&sk=02eb8a77e0d9f1958045a39550f0e3a0

MediaFacer on GitHub github.com/CodeBoy722/MediaFacer

Thank you so much for this amazing work, this part is making me cry for months and your library helped me learn a lot <3

How to use it?

1. You have to add a listview in xml
2. Then name that listview and add findviewbyid method to it
3. Then use a adaptor whichever you can use
4. For eg : ArrayAdapter ad = new ArrayAdapter(this,android.R.id.layout.simple_list_view_1,songs);
   listview.setadapter(ad);

then it will list those .mp3 files in your activity!!