How to get the attached picture from mp3 file?

[Shepherdog]

hi~
i've been using CMdaAudioPlayerUtility to play a mp3 file, which works well and plays smoothly, now i was required to retrieve all ID3V2 info(such as artist, title, album... etc.) and display them to player view.

i've got some metadata from method GetMetaDataEntryL(), however, a trouble comes while retrieving Attached Picture (maybe album picture).
things goes like this:

TRAPD(err, md = iMdaAudioPlayerUtility->GetMetaDataEntryL(i));
...
if ( md->Name().Find(KMMFMetaEntryAPIC) != KErrNotFound )
 {
    //WriteToFileL(md->Value(), _L("C:\\Data\\Images\\Test.jpg"), ETrue);

    // how to get the data of APIC?
 }

i wrote md->Value() to a file, but all i got is messy data, not a real picture file.

who can tell me how to use KMMFMetaEntryAPIC, and the approach to get attached picture.
thx first~
A.kon

[wizard_hu_]

You could check the data you get with some binary viewer. Knowing that it is not a .jpg file is not much.

[Shepherdog]

You could check the data you get with some binary viewer. Knowing that it is not a .jpg file is not much.

thx at first,
i've checked the data with the byte sequence after APIC tag(ID3V2) in mp3 file, found that what i got are totally blank bytes.

i've no idea the way i handle the KMMFMetaEntryAPIC is correct or not.
and i found no reference or any code clip explain how to retrieve this value.

[Denever]

There may be an internal API to extract the album art - both in case if jpg actually part of the file or stored separately as an image and file metadata only contains the path to it. The KMMFMetaEntryAPIC seem more like used to enable that storage.

[Shepherdog]

There may be an internal API to extract the album art - both in case if jpg actually part of the file or stored separately as an image and file metadata only contains the path to it. The KMMFMetaEntryAPIC seem more like used to enable that storage.

thx, i've quitted to test KMMFMetaEntryAPIC item, and turn to import an open-sourced id3 parser, which works well and seems efficiently.

[naveen_r6]

Hi,
Can you please help me with the details about which id3 parser you used. I am also trying to extract the album art of an mp3 using qt.

[Shepherdog]

Hi,
Can you please help me with the details about which id3 parser you used. I am also trying to extract the album art of an mp3 using qt.

i've no idea the qt platform, what i did is to import an open-sourced project xLyrics, and modified part of code, the basic method which used is reading APIC tag byte by byte (of course, you should locate this tag at first), hope this may help you.

[naveen_r6]

Hi,
Thanks for the reply. I tried to google this xLyrics open source project, but I am not able to get the correct link. Can you provide me some links to this project

[Shepherdog]

Hi,
Thanks for the reply. I tried to google this xLyrics open source project, but I am not able to get the correct link. Can you provide me some links to this project

plz check this link: http://en.pudn.com/downloads82/sourc...316378_en.html

[naveen_r6]

Hi,
Thanks for the link. I will go through the link and will let you know the result

[naveen_r6]

I found difficulty in integrating the API with Qt. So I read the ID3 tag myself and parsed the image from the tag. I am posting the link here so that it can be of help to some one.

http://id3.org/