Given an Android music playlist name, how can one find the songs in the playlist?

Question

The playlist names can be found by a query on MediaStore.Audio.Playlists.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI and then look at the MediaStore.Audio.PlaylistsColumns.NAME<

Answer 1

Here is a working way to get tracks from a play list. Basically it loops the cursor through all the of the playlist query, and each time it gets the id of a member (track) and using that id of the track we can get other data such as path, artist, duration, album etc.

 ContentResolver contentResolver = getContentResolver();
    Uri playListUri = MediaStore.Audio.Playlists.Members.getContentUri("external", playlistID); //playlistID is the _ID of the given playlist
    MediaMetadataRetriever mr = new MediaMetadataRetriever();
    Cursor cursor = contentResolver.query(playListUri, null, null, null, null);
    if(cursor != null)
    {
        if(cursor.moveToNext()) {
            do {
                String track_id = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Audio.Playlists.Members.AUDIO_ID));
                Uri mediaContentUri = MediaStore.Audio.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI;
                String[] trackProjection = new String[]{MediaStore.Audio.Media.TITLE, MediaStore.Audio.Media.ARTIST, MediaStore.Audio.Media.ALBUM, MediaStore.Audio.Media.DATA};
                String selection = MediaStore.Audio.Media._ID + "=?";
                String[] selectionArgs = new String[]{"" + track_id};
                Cursor mediaCursor = contentResolver.query(mediaContentUri, trackProjection, selection, selectionArgs, null);
                if (mediaCursor != null) {
                    if (mediaCursor.getCount() >= 0) {
                        mediaCursor.moveToPosition(0);
                        String song_title = mediaCursor.getString(mediaCursor.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Audio.Media.TITLE));
                        String song_artist = mediaCursor.getString(mediaCursor.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Audio.Media.ALBUM));
                        String song_album = mediaCursor.getString(mediaCursor.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Audio.Media.ARTIST));
                        String song_path = mediaCursor.getString(mediaCursor.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Audio.Media.DATA));
                    }
                }
            } while (cursor.moveToNext());
        }

    }