Most robust way to fetch album art in Android

Question

Please note that I have already been through similar questions and their answers here and on other websites. I also have a solution that works on some devices (my G2X runnin

Answer 1

This below code snippet returns the uri for the album art cache present in the MediaStore. may be this will help.

            Cursor cursorAudio = managedQuery(MediaStore.Audio.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI, {MediaStore.Audio.Media.ALBUM_ID, MediaStore.Audio.Media.DATA}, MediaStore.Audio.Media.DATA+ " LIKE \"" + path+ "\"", null, null);if(cursorAudio != null  && cursorAudio.moveToFirst()){
        Long albumId = Long.valueOf(cursorAudio.getString(cursorAudio.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Audio.Media.ALBUM_ID)));
        cursorAudio.close();
        Cursor cursorAlbum = managedQuery(MediaStore.Audio.Albums.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI, {MediaStore.Audio.Albums._ID, MediaStore.Audio.Albums.ALBUM_ART}, MediaStore.Audio.Albums._ID+ "=" + albumId, null, null);
        if(cursorAlbum != null  && cursorAlbum.moveToFirst()){
            String uri = cursorAlbum.getString(cursorAlbum.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Audio.Albums.ALBUM_ART));
            cursorAlbum.close();
            if(uri != null){
                return Uri.parse(uri);
            }
        }

Answer 2

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 https://github.com/android/platform_packages_apps_music/blob/master/src/com/android/music/MusicUtils.java method getArtworkQuick.

Answer 3

I'd like to modify Chirag Raval's answer by using Picasso library. It is simple to use and very powerful.

final Uri sArtworkUri = Uri.parse("content://media/external/audio/albumart");
    Uri uri = ContentUris.withAppendedId(sArtworkUri, arrayList.get(i).getArt());
    Picasso.with(context).load(uri).placeholder(R.mipmap.ic_launcher).error(R.mipmap.ic_launcher)
            .into(ivPic);

For full documentation, refer this.

Answer 4

Here i can attach one function that is return album art from media store . Here in function we just have to pass the album_id which we get from Media store .

   public Bitmap getAlbumart(Long album_id) 
   {
        Bitmap bm = null;
        try 
        {
            final Uri sArtworkUri = Uri
                .parse("content://media/external/audio/albumart");

            Uri uri = ContentUris.withAppendedId(sArtworkUri, album_id);

            ParcelFileDescriptor pfd = context.getContentResolver()
                .openFileDescriptor(uri, "r");

            if (pfd != null) 
            {
                FileDescriptor fd = pfd.getFileDescriptor();
                bm = BitmapFactory.decodeFileDescriptor(fd);
            }
    } catch (Exception e) {
    }
    return bm;
}