public class Main extends ListActivity { private Cursor audioCursor; @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); audioCursor = this.managedQuery(Audio.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI, null, null, null, null); startManagingCursor(audioCursor); String[] columnsToMap = new String[] {Audio.Media.TITLE , Audio.Media._ID}; int[] mapTo = new int[] {android.R.id.text1,android.R.id.text2}; ListAdapter mAdapter = new SimpleCursorAdapter(this, android.R.layout.two_line_list_item , audioCursor, columnsToMap, mapTo); this.setListAdapter(mAdapter); } }
Quick Explanation
The thing that you need here is Audio.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI, as stated on the the contact display article, managedQuery acts like a sql call and the table this time is Audio.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI.
Another thing you might have notice is String[] columnsToMap = new String[] {Audio.Media.TITLE , Audio.Media._ID};. These and a lot more are the columns that can be used.
Source Code
Main.java file for Searching Audio in Android
References
android.provider.MediaStore.Audio.Media
Display Contact Names in Android

Update History
Jan 17, 2012 - Visual Update
3 comments:
Could you help me i want to know how i can search for album art then display it next to the artist name and song name like in the android music app could you show me how to do that? Please
Hi.
Thanks for the example!
Can you please show how to start playing the chosen song with MediaPlayer object? In other words, how can i know full path to the song in order to start playing it?
Thanks alot
eliran
Here is a description of another way to search for audio files on android
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