react-native-get-music-files

React Native package to get music files from local and sd for iOS and Android

What does this package?

This package get all the sound files in your local and sd card for Androi and iOS, and retrive metadata from each file, also generate an blurred image from cover file.

• SongID
• Title
• Author
• Album
• Duration
• Path
• Cover
• Duration
• Genre

Getting started

$ npm install react-native-get-music-files --save

Mostly automatic installation

$ react-native link react-native-get-music-files

Manual installation

iOS

1. In XCode, in the project navigator, right click Libraries ➜ Add Files to [your project's name]
2. Go to node_modules ➜ react-native-reat-native-get-music-files and add RNReatNativeGetMusicFiles.xcodeproj
3. In XCode, in the project navigator, select your project. Add libRNReatNativeGetMusicFiles.a to your project's Build Phases ➜ Link Binary With Libraries
4. Run your project (Cmd+R)<

Android

1. Open up android/app/src/main/java/[...]/MainActivity.java

• Add import com.reactlibrary.RNReatNativeGetMusicFilesPackage; to the imports at the top of the file
• Add new RNReatNativeGetMusicFilesPackage() to the list returned by the getPackages() method

2. Append the following lines to android/settings.gradle:

   include ':react-native-get-music-files'
   project(':react-native-get-music-files').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, 	'../node_modules/react-native-get-music-files/android')
   

3. Insert the following lines inside the dependencies block in android/app/build.gradle:

     compile project(':react-native-get-music-files')
   

Usage

import MusicFiles from 'react-native-get-music-files';

MusicFiles.getAll({
    blured : true, // works only when 'cover' is set to true
    artist : true,
    duration : true, //default : true
    cover : false, //default : true,
    genre : true,
    title : true,
    cover : true,
    minimumSongDuration : 10000 // get songs bigger than 10000 miliseconds duration,
    fields : ['title','albumTitle','genre','lyrics','artwork','duration'] // for iOs Version
}).then(tracks => {
    // do your stuff...
}).catch(error => {
    // catch the error
})

//In order to get blocks of songs, for fix performance issues at least in Android, use next

componentWillMount() {
    DeviceEventEmitter.addListener(
        'onBatchReceived',
        (params) => {
            this.setState({songs : [
                ...this.state.songs,
                ...params.batch
            ]});
        }
    )
}

componentDidMount(){
        MusicFiles.getAll({
            id : true,
            blured : false,
            artist : true,
            duration : true, //default : true
            cover : true, //default : true,
            title : true,
            cover : true,
            batchNumber : 5, //get 5 songs per batch
            minimumSongDuration : 10000, //in miliseconds,
            fields : ['title','artwork','duration','artist','genre','lyrics','albumTitle']
        });
}

MusicFiles returns an array of objects where you can loop, something like this.

[
  {
    id : 1,
    title : "La danza del fuego",
    author : "Mago de Oz",
    album : "Finisterra",
    genre : "Folk",
    duration : 132132312321, // miliseconds
    cover : "file:///sdcard/0/123.png",
    blur : "file:///sdcard/0/123-blur.png", //Will come null if createBLur is set to false
    path : "/sdcard/0/la-danza-del-fuego.mp3"
  }
]

Notes

• [] For android 5 and above, you may request permissions before to use this plugin check https://github.com/yonahforst/react-native-permissions

Version Changes

2.1

• Removed FFMPEG library, was causing unexpected errors with differents metatags
• Comments, Lyrics and Date tags are not available anymore
• Improvements for Android API <= 19
• Removed unnecesary comments
• Cleanup code
• Fixed javascript side
• Fixed crash in Android KitKat and lower
• MinimumSongDuration parameter is now working
• Renamed library from com.reactlibrary to com.cinder92.musicfiles
• Upgraded gradle to 4.4
• Removed unnecesary logs
• Usable for API <= 19 Android

PR are welcome!