Searching For Music Files With Mediastore

I have been researching this for hours now. I've looked at android javadoc - MediaStore and I just don't get it. I've looked for examples. Nothing. I want to search the music libra

Solution 1:

The MediaStore more or less is an sqlite DB. There are many ways to query it. By album, by artist, by playlist, by song, and so on. This will return a Cursor of all songs, for example.

Cursorcursor= getContentResolver().query(
    MediaStore.Audio.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI, 
    null, 
    null, 
    null, 
    MediaStore.Audio.Media.TITLE + " ASC");

You can then get specific columns from it like so:

while (cursor.moveToNext()) {
    Stringtitle= cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Audio.Media.TITLE));
    // Whatever else you need
}