Querying for album art always returns No entry for content://media/external/audio/albumart/31726

Question

So I've been trying this for some time now. To get the album art for an mp3 file and displaying it on its respective ImageView and I am using the uri("content://media/external/audio/albumart")

This is my method for getting the album art

    public Bitmap getAlbumArt(long idAlbum){
    Bitmap bitmap = null;

    try{
        final Uri sArtworkUri = Uri.parse("content://media/external/audio/albumart");
        Uri uri = ContentUris.withAppendedId(sArtworkUri, idAlbum);
        ParcelFileDescriptor parcelFileDescriptor = getContext().getContentResolver().openFileDescriptor(uri,"r");
        if (parcelFileDescriptor != null){
            FileDescriptor fileDescriptor = parcelFileDescriptor.getFileDescriptor();
            bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeFileDescriptor(fileDescriptor);
        }

    }catch (Exception e){
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return bitmap;
    }

and this method always returns

java.io.FileNotFoundException: No entry for content://media/external/audio/albumart/31726

where the 31726 is the album id.

Since I'm catching this exception and I set it to a default Album art if it returns null, every mp3 has its ImageView set to the default album art. I am using my Samsung Galaxy s3 to run the application and my device runs android 4.2.2 JellyBean. Please someone help me getting this right.

This is how I request the album id

    Uri musicUri = MediaStore.Audio.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI;
    String[] columns = {
            MediaStore.Audio.Media.TITLE,
            MediaStore.Audio.Media.ARTIST,
            MediaStore.Audio.Albums._ID,
            MediaStore.Audio.Media.DATA
    };

    String where = MediaStore.Audio.Media.IS_MUSIC + "=1";

    Cursor musicCursor = usicResolver.query(musicUri,columns,where,null,    null);

Then in an if loop with condition

    if(musicCursor.moveToFirst()){
    int albumId = musicCursor.getColumnIndex
                (MediaStore.Audio.Albums._ID);
    do{
          long idAlbum = musicCursor.getLong(albumId);

          //Then i send it to my above method getAlbumArt
          Bitmap songAlbumArt = getAlbumArt(idAlbum);

      }while(musicCursor.moveToNext());

     }

'the 31726 is the album id.'. Where did you get that id from? Why do you think your code should work? — greenapps, Nov 09 '15 at 08:26
@greenapps I'm sorry i meant using my real device and not an emulator. I'm getting the album id using MediaStore.Audio.Albums._ID — Dev24601, Nov 09 '15 at 08:46
@greenapps Most of the people are using the same technique for retrieving album art and it seems it is working pretty well for them. — Dev24601, Nov 09 '15 at 08:55
Instead of that parcel file descripter try: `InputStream is = getContext().getContentResolver().openInputStream(uri);`. BitmapFactory can decode from an input stream. — greenapps, Nov 09 '15 at 12:05
@greenapps No using InputStream did not work for me either. The logcat goes on without stopping, repeating the line V/AlarmManager: waitForAlarm result :8 and with the same exception no entry for content — Dev24601, Nov 09 '15 at 15:01
@greenapps I have added how I request the album Id above...this is the exception content://media/external/audio/albumart/31726 — Dev24601, Nov 09 '15 at 15:08
I see a problem in your query above. To get the album Id of an audio medium you need to query the column MediaStore.Audio.Media.ALBUM_ID . You are querying for MediaStore.Audio.Albums._ID which will give you the media id instead of the album id. That's because MediaStore.Audio.Albums._ID has a constant value of "_id" and MediaStore.Audio.Media.ALBUM_ID has a constant value of "album_id". With the correct album id the method posted in my answer below should work. Maybe your solution is then working as well. — Emanuel Seidinger, Nov 10 '15 at 09:00

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 09 '15 at 15:02

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This is how I query the cover art path from the album id:

private static String getCoverArtPath(long albumId, Context context) {

    Cursor albumCursor = context.getContentResolver().query(
            MediaStore.Audio.Albums.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI,
            new String[]{MediaStore.Audio.Albums.ALBUM_ART},
            MediaStore.Audio.Albums._ID + " = ?",
            new String[]{Long.toString(albumId)},
            null
    );
    boolean queryResult = albumCursor.moveToFirst();
    String result = null;
    if (queryResult) {
        result = albumCursor.getString(0);
    }
    albumCursor.close();
    return result;
}

You can get the Bitmap from the BitmapFactory using the path returned from the method above:

BitmapFactory.decodeFile(coverArtPath);

answered Nov 09 '15 at 15:02

Emanuel Seidinger

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Not working for me. It does not give any error just some frames skipped but that is not a big deal. I have noticed that where I am checking if my Bitmap is null android studio prompts that the Bitmap is always going to be null. Any idea of what I may be doing wrong ? and i checked if anywhere locally i have set the bitmap to be null but no i have not found any thing like that. – Dev24601 Nov 09 '15 at 15:41
I don't see why the Bitmap should always be null. I just tried to get the Bitmap from the content uri with appended id like you did in your question above. I also get FileNotFoundExceptions with my albums. – Emanuel Seidinger Nov 09 '15 at 15:46
So right now using your method i have two cursors i.e. the one i have been already using for querying the album id, title , artist and the other one mentioned in your above method. This wont be a problem right using two cursors ? – Dev24601 Nov 09 '15 at 15:56
I don't think that is a problem. Before returning the path I close the cursor. – Emanuel Seidinger Nov 09 '15 at 16:03
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I found that my albumCursor.getCount() is always 0. That means there is something wrong with the query being passed. – Dev24601 Nov 10 '15 at 06:11
There seems to be a problem in your query for the album id. Please see my comment below your question. – Emanuel Seidinger Nov 10 '15 at 09:02
It seems that MediaStore.Audio.Albums.ALBUM_ART was deprecated on API 29. Take a look at my response above. – droid256 Jun 11 '22 at 02:32

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 27 '17 at 03:36

ImageLoader.getInstance().
    displayImage( ContentUris.withAppendedId(Uri.parse("content://media/external/audio/albumart"), song_tag.albumId).toString(),
            image,
            new DisplayImageOptions.Builder().cacheInMemory(true).showImageOnFail(R.drawable.stock6).resetViewBeforeLoading(true).build());

image is the object of ImageView

song_tag.albumid is the album id which you have to send to get the image

stock6 is the default image

droid256 · Answer 3 · 2022-06-11T02:31:23.913

EDIT:

It seems that ALBUM_ART was deprecated on API 29: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/MediaStore.Audio.AlbumColumns#ALBUM_ART

Instead, they suggest using ContentResolver#loadThumbnail: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/ContentResolver#loadThumbnail(android.net.Uri,%20android.util.Size,%20android.os.CancellationSignal)

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ORIGINAL:

Querying the album art field from content://media/external/audio/albums would do it for me some time ago, but I noticed it stopped working since a few Android versions ago, for some reason.

Now I querying the albums table gets me a null album art field:

adb shell content query --uri content://media/external/audio/albums
Row: 0 numsongs=1, artist=My Artist, numsongs_by_artist=1, _id=8821305607184940112, album=My Album, album_art=NULL, album_key=4c3a3434044e5052303a4604342a3e32044248194e, artist_id=7053871990187004266, artist_key=484c465046503832464c2a04422a402a563a32444e3a4e, maxyear=NULL, minyear=NULL, album_id=8821305607184940112

Querying the album art route directly, also gives me no results...

adb shell content query --uri content://media/external/audio/albumart
No result found.

It seems that the MediaStore on the platform side... stopped trying to parse album art from music files, and add them to its db?

Okay, it looks like it was deprecated in ALBUM_ART was deprecated on API 29. See my edit. — droid256, Jun 11 '22 at 02:30

Querying for album art always returns No entry for content://media/external/audio/albumart/31726

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