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Flutter Audio Query is a Flutter plugin that enables developers to access and retrieve media metadata from a device's storage, including information about artists, albums, songs, genres, and playlists. It provides a straightforward API to query the device's music library, making it ideal for building music player applications or media management tools. The plugin works across platforms, though specific platform support may vary. It simplifies integration with native audio data sources without requiring complex native code.
Use cases
Building music player apps
Creating media library interfaces
Fetching song metadata
Displaying artist and album details
Managing user playlists
Key features
Access to device music library
Supports artists, albums, songs, genres, playlists
Simple and consistent API
Cross-platform compatibility
Efficient data retrieval
Suitable for
Music application developers
Media library builders
Audio content managers
Flutter beginners exploring media features
Apps needing offline music metadata
Considerations
Platform-specific limitations may apply
Requires appropriate permissions on Android and iOS
Limited to device-stored media
No real-time updates for media changes
Depends on device's media database consistency
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Flutter Audio Query
A Flutter plugin, Android only at this moment, that allows you query for audio metadata info about artists, albums, songs audio files and genres available on device storage. All work is made using Android native MediaStore API with ContentResolver API and query methods run in background thread. AndroidX support it's OK!
Note: This plugin is under development, Works in Android devices only and some APIs are not available yet. Feedback, pull request, bug reports and suggestions are all welcome!
Feel free to help!
Example app included
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Features
Android permissions READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE and READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE built-in
Get all artists audio info available on device storage
Get artists available from a specific genre
Search for artists matching a name
Artist comes with some album Artwork cover if available
Get all albums info available on device storage
Get albums available from a specific artist
Get albums available from a specific genre
Search albums matching a name
Album artwork included if available
Get songs all songs available on device storage
Get songs from a specific album
Songs already comes with album artwork cover if available
Get availables genre.
Get all playlists available
Create new playlists
Remove playlist
Add songs to playlist
Remove song from playlist
Multiple sort types for Artist, Album, Song, Genre, Playlist.
To get get audio files metadata info you just need FlutterAudioQuery object instance.
///you need include this file only.import'package:flutter_audio_query/flutter_audio_query.dart';
/// create a FlutterAudioQuery instance.finalFlutterAudioQuery audioQuery = FlutterAudioQuery();
Getting all artist available on device storage:
List<ArtistInfo> artists = await audioQuery.getArtists(); // returns all artists available
artists.forEach( (artist){
print(artist); /// prints all artist property values
} );
Getting albums data:
/// getting all albums available on device storageList<AlbumInfo> albumList = await audioQuery.getAlbums();
/// getting all albums available from a specific artistList<AlbumInfo> albums = await audioQuery.getAlbumsFromArtist(artist: artist.name);
albums.forEach( (artistAlbum) {
print(artistAlbum); //print all album property values
});
Getting artwork on Android >= Q:
Since Android API level 29 ALBUM_ART constant is deprecated and plus
scoped storage approach we can't load artwork from absolute image path.
So if your app is running over Android API >= 29 you will get all artwork fields with null. To fetch images on these API levels you can use getArwork method.
/// detecting, loading and displaying an artist artwork.ArtistInfo artist // assuming a non null instance// check if artistArtPath isn't available.
(artist.artistArtPath == null)
? FutureBuilder<Uint8List>(
future: audioQuery.getArtwork(
type: ResourceType.ARTIST, id: artist.id),
builder: (_, snapshot) {
if (snapshot.data == null)
returnContainer(
height: 250.0,
child: Center(
child: CircularProgressIndicator(),
),
);
returnCardItemWidget(
height: 250.0,
title: artist.name,
subtitle: "Number of Albums: ${artist.numberOfAlbums}",
infoText: "Number of Songs: ${artist.numberOfTracks}",
// The image bytes// You can use Image.memory widget constructor // or MemoryImage image provider class to load image from bytes// or a different approach.
rawImage: snapshot.data,
);
}) :
// or you can load image from File path if available.Image.file( File( artist.artistArtPath ) )
Getting genre data
/// getting all genres availableList<GenreInfo> genreList = audioQuery.getGenres();
genreList.foreach( (genre){
/// getting all artists available from specific genre.await audioQuery.getArtistsFromGenre(genre: genre.name);
/// getting all albums which appears on genre [genre].await audioQuery.getAlbumsFromGenre(genre: genre.name);
/// getting all songs which appears on genre [genre]await audioQuery.getSongsFromGenre(genre: genre.name);
} );
Getting songs data
/// getting all songs available on device storageList<SongInfo> songs = await audioQuery.getSongs();
albumList.foreach( (album){
/// getting songs from specific album
audioQuery.getSongsFromAlbum(album: album.name);
} );
Getting playlist data
/// getting all playlist availableList<PlaylistInfo> playlist = await audioQuery.getPlaylists();
/// Getting playlist songsList<SongInfo> songs = await audioQuery.getSongsFromPlaylist(playlist: playlist[0]);
/// adding songs into a specific playlistPlaylistInfo updatedPlaylist = await playlist[0].addSong(song: songs[2] );
//removing song from a specific playlist
updatedPlaylist = await updatedPlaylist.removeSong(song: songs[2]);
Sorting queries
You can also define a sort query constraint to get the data already sorted using sort enums.ArtistSortType, AlbumSortType, SongSortType, GenreSortType, PlaylistSortType.
/// Getting albums sorted by most recent year first
audioQuery.getAlbums(sortType: AlbumSortType.MOST_RECENT_YEAR )
/// getting artists sorted by number of songs
audioQuery.getArtits(sortType: ArtistSortType.MORE_TRACKS_NUMBER_FIRST);
/// and more...
Searching
You can search using search methods.
///searching for albums that title starts with 'a'List<AlbumInfo> albums = await audioQuery.searchAlbums(query "a");
/// searching for songs that title starts with 'la'List<SongInfo> songs = await audioQuery.searchSongs(query: "la");
Contributing
Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.