In this blog post we will use MediaStore.Audio class to reterive our audio files from android device.

• Folder Audio Listening
• Folder Audio Listen
• Folder Audio Listen To

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MediaStore.Audio is works like a container. It contains all the audio files from internal and external storage.

We will follow some basic steps to retrieve audio files-

Now its time to convert these steps into android code.

1- Get Audio Files-

We will use MediaStore.Audio file to retrieve the audio files from storage(internal or external).

Folder Audio Listening

First we have to spacify what are the contents we are going to retrieve, for that we will create an array of projections we need.

Here is the code flick for that-

Ok, we know what content we need, now set the projection and make a query for data, for that purpose we will use Cursor interface.

Folder Audio Listen

Cursor is very useful when you are retrieving some data from storage. It provides read-write access tothe result set return by a query.

Here is the code flick for that-

2- Add result-set into a List-

We have all the data access using above query . Now add that data into a list.

Here is the code flick for that-

3- Display List-

Now its the time to display all the data into a View. For that we have to create a ListView in the layout and then create an Adapter to bridg between View and program part.

Here is the code flick for that-

Here is the Complete code-

Folder Audio Listen To

Hope this post will help you..!!

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