How to display Album Art in an app?

Display Album Art in Android Music App

• I'm trying to include the Album Art out of a mp3 file into my application, but it says: Call to getEmbeddedPicture failed. In my Song class I set the artwork of each song : metaDataRetriver = new MediaMetadataRetriever(); metaDataRetriver.setDataSource(path); //path = /mnt/sdcard/chan_mp3/Titel.mp3 byte[] artwork = metaDataRetriver.getEmbeddedPicture(); In my CustomAdapter I try to display the cover: // This code works perfectly fine: for each song I get artist and title textView.setText(values.get(position).getArtist() + " - " + values.get(position).getTitle()); // This code doesn't work at all byte[] artwork = values.get(position).getArtwork(); Bitmap bMap = BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(artwork, 0, artwork.length); imageView.setImageBitmap(bMap); The question is where am I missing something? is the artwork variable not initialyzed correctly or is my request wrong? Or is there a better approach to get the Album Cover and music information?

• Answer:

  this works very well for me. Using contentResolver to retrieve album art for a given specific album name. img= (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.imageTrackView1); Context context = this; Uri sArtworkUri = Uri.parse("content://media/external/audio/albumart"); Uri uri = ContentUris.withAppendedId(sArtworkUri, album); ContentResolver res = context.getContentResolver(); InputStream in = null; try { in = res.openInputStream(uri); final Bitmap artwork = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(in); img.setImageBitmap(artwork); } catch (FileNotFoundException e1) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e1.printStackTrace(); } img.setScaleType(ScaleType.FIT_XY);