Hi all, I am developing a sort of media player for android. The question is how can i get the cover art of audio file on android. For example the default android media player shows album covers when listing albums, how can i get this artworks.
A:
Android only recognizes files named "AlbumArt.jpg" as Album Covers. Just put the pictures with that name in the album folder and you'll be fine..
Nick
2009-12-23 18:15:34
Sorry maybe the question was little confusing. I am developing an application and i want to get the album art from my application.
Mojo Risin
2009-12-23 18:26:36
+1
A:
I don't know if you read that google is making Stackoverflow the official Android app development Q&A medium but for beginner questions... Now, I know nothing about developing in andriod, but a quick search of the Android Developers site, I found this:
Hopefully it'll help.
fudgey
2009-12-23 19:23:16
Yes i also notice that there is MediaStore.Audio.AudioColumns.ALBUM_ART but it doesn't exist actually.ContentResolver.query(MediaStore.Audio.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI,null, null, null, null); - returns cursor with all columns and ALBUM_ART is not there.
Mojo Risin
2009-12-23 22:19:36
There are only ALBUM,ALBUM_ID,ALBUM_KEY columns in the cursor but no ALBUM_ART
Mojo Risin
2009-12-23 22:28:17
+1
A:
Based on your comments to others, it seems like your question is less about Android and more about how to get album art in general. Perhaps this article on retrieving album art from Amazon will be helpful. Once you have a local copy and store it as Nick has suggested, I believe you should be able to retrieve it the way Fudgey suggested.
Tim Kryger
2010-01-02 22:36:34
No i don't want to get the album art in general. There is optional filed in ID3v2 tags for cover art. Android is parsing most of the ID3v2 field and the question is how to get the embedded covert art in ID3v2 tag not using amazon or some other web services
Mojo Risin
2010-01-03 15:02:04
Maybe the question is little confusing, maybe the correct one will be extracting "Attached picture" from ID3v2 tag on android. http://www.id3.org/id3v2.3.0 for more info about attached picture
Mojo Risin
2010-01-03 15:06:49
+4
A:
Uri sArtworkUri = Uri.parse("content://media/external/audio/albumart");
Uri uri = ContentUris.withAppendedId(sArtworkUri, album_id);
ContentResolver res = context.getContentResolver();
InputStream in = res.openInputStream(uri);
Bitmap artwork = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(in);
More complete sample code can be found in Android Music player source here http://www.google.com/codesearch/p?hl=en#kYM2IxnT114/src/com/android/music/MusicUtils.java&q=getArtwork&exact_package=git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/packages/apps/Music.git&sa=N&cd=1&ct=rc&l=25 method getArtwork.
Fedor
2010-01-07 06:28:16