How to access music file headers in windows store apps

Question

Hi ALL,

I  developing a music player windows store apps using HTML-Javascript. Music Player will give option to user for selecting file from Music Library and play it.

Now I am able to the Music file which user selects but the problem is I am unable to read headers of the music file selected by user.

I want to read headers from the mp3 files so that I can show thumbnail for the music file selected by user.

Please help  me on this.

Thank You.

Answer 1

These are exposed as MusicProperties on the StorageFile. See the code snippet at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/windows.storage.fileproperties.musicproperties.aspx

Answer 2

Hi Rob,

Thanks for your answer.

In MusicProperties on thing is still missing that thumbnail image of music file.

Is there any mean by which we can extract the thumbnail image of the music file?

Answer 3

It depends on what you mean by thumbnail image of music file. You can get the file thumbnail from StorageFile.GetThumbnailAsync . Properties to look up the image file from MusicProperties' named properties. If you're looking for another property you can use it's RetreivePropertiesAsync  method.

--Rob