List all music in MediaStore with the PATHs

Although, the post is old, for other people like me to get the idea of creating a list of music with their file path, I added the solution here. MediaStore.Audio.Media.DATA column actually contains media file path. You can get necessary information by using the following snippet:

ContentResolver cr = getActivity().getContentResolver();

Uri uri = MediaStore.Audio.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI;
String selection = MediaStore.Audio.Media.IS_MUSIC + "!= 0";
String sortOrder = MediaStore.Audio.Media.TITLE + " ASC";
Cursor cur = cr.query(uri, null, selection, null, sortOrder);
int count = 0;

if(cur != null)
{
    count = cur.getCount();

    if(count > 0)
    {
        while(cur.moveToNext())
        {
            String data = cur.getString(cur.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Audio.Media.DATA));
            // Add code to get more column here

            // Save to your list here
        }

    }

    cur.close();
}

You can list all the music files using this code

//Some audio may be explicitly marked as not being music
String selection = MediaStore.Audio.Media.IS_MUSIC + " != 0";

String[] projection = {
        MediaStore.Audio.Media._ID,
        MediaStore.Audio.Media.ARTIST,
        MediaStore.Audio.Media.TITLE,
        MediaStore.Audio.Media.DATA,
        MediaStore.Audio.Media.DISPLAY_NAME,
        MediaStore.Audio.Media.DURATION
};

cursor = this.managedQuery(
        MediaStore.Audio.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI,
        projection,
        selection,
        null,
        null);

private List<String> songs = new ArrayList<String>();
while(cursor.moveToNext()) {
        songs.add(cursor.getString(0) + "||" 
                    + cursor.getString(1) + "||" 
                    + cursor.getString(2) + "||"
                    + cursor.getString(3) + "||"
                    + cursor.getString(4) + "||" 
                    + cursor.getString(5));
}

I have not tried this code, but it seems correct. You'll be on the right track with that.

I'm working on same project right now and already solved the problem.

You will need a custom class to store your songs data:

package YOUR_PACKAGE;

public class Songs
{
    private long mSongID;
    private String mSongTitle;

    public Songs(long id, String title){
        mSongID = id;
        mSongTitle = title;
    }

    public long getSongID(){
        return mSongID;
    }

    public String getSongTitle(){
        return mSongTitle;
    }
}

Then you have to define ArrayList in activity with List View which you will populate with data:

private ArrayList<Songs> arrayList;

and in onCreate:

arrayList = new ArrayList<Songs>();

Then you have to retrieve data from your device:

public void YOUR_METHOD_NAME(){
    ContentResolver contentResolver = getContentResolver();
    Uri songUri = MediaStore.Audio.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI;
    Cursor songCursor = contentResolver.query(songUri, null, null, null, null);

    if(songCursor != null && songCursor.moveToFirst())
    {
        int songId = songCursor.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Audio.Media._ID);
        int songTitle = songCursor.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Audio.Media.TITLE);

        do {
            long currentId = songCursor.getLong(songId);
            String currentTitle = songCursor.getString(songTitle);
            arrayList.add(new Songs(currentId, currentTitle, currentArtist));
        } while(songCursor.moveToNext());
    }
}

Then call this method from onCreate:

YOUR_METHOD_NAME();

And finally you have to create custom adapter class, define this adapter in onCreate (in activity with ListView) and set this adapter on your ListView object.

I see that it was asked 3 years ago and the problem I think already solved, but maybe it will be usefull for someone. Thanks.