Access Windows Media Library and meta data

Question

Hi there,

I would like to make an app that accesses the users media library and all associated meta data so that I can arrange by artist, year, genre etc.  What API do I need to access for a Windows Store app to do this.  I've only found people enumerating the folder manually but surely that's going to be much slower than access an already existing database?

Nick.

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Answer 1

You can try following code to get list of music files

var musicFolder= Windows.Storage.KnownFolders.MusicLibrary;
var files = await musicFolder.GetFilesAsync();

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/windows/apps/windows.storage.knownfolders.musiclibrary.aspx

You can try MusicProperties class to get File Properties for music file

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/windows/apps/windows.storage.fileproperties.musicproperties
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/br230571.aspx

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Gaurav Khanna | Microsoft VB.NET MVP | Microsoft Community Contributor

Answer 2

Hi there,

Thanks for the reply but I actually asked if there was a method other than this?  This is going to prove to be very slow unless I catalogue the data and create a database out of it.  Is there an existing database I can access, such as the one Windows Media Player would access?

Nick.

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