Comments on: The Music Player Framework in iPhone SDK 3.0

By: Ole Begemann

Ole Begemann — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:40:57 +0000

Shubham: there should be no difference in an OpenGL-based app. You can use the exact same calls. You can even use the media picker if you want. If you want to create your own OpenGL-based media picker, you have to build it from scratch, of course.

By: shubham

shubham — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:14:37 +0000

How can we get ipod song lists and other functionalities in an OPENGL iphone app??

any pointers or examples?

By: Günni

Günni — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:08:03 +0000

Hi, I’ve developed a simple application to display the current song info. It works fine with the normal ipod app. However, when I use the iphone connected to my car radio and when it is remotely controlled by this, I get the following behaviour:
The notifcation handleNowPlayingItemChanged is received by my application, but the app does not get any info about the currently playing item.

Any ideas if this is normal behaviour when the iphone is connnected to another device or if I’m doing something wrong?

By: Daniel Bonates

Daniel Bonates — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:29:45 +0000

So, can I change the volume from any view? How can I access the current background music from a, lets say, a Settings viewcontroller?

Also, does it provide the same resources to play sound files from App bundle?

Thanks in advanced :)

By: Ole Begemann

Ole Begemann — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:31:48 +0000

Jóhann: Yes, I noticed the same. MPMediaQuery is really slow. I don’t know of any alternative, short of maintaining your own cached song database (e.g. with Core Data). I believe the iPod app does something like that. But how will you then get notified when the music library on the device has changed while your app is not running?

By: Jóhann

Jóhann — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:04:17 +0000

Did you run into any performance problems when using MPMediaQuery? I’ve been performing some tests and [query items] is painfully slow.

Do you know of any other method for getting a list of every song in the library?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:06:56 +0000

What I observe with MPMediaItemPropertyLyrics: After syncing the iPod library, no lyrics are returned. Then, when you open a song in the iPod application on the iPhone and display its lyrics, only the lyrics of this song are returned.

By: Meta

Meta — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:23:27 +0000

I’m trying to use the MPMediaQuery to get all of my albums. It works fine, but sometimes, it’s get timed out. I get a notification to the console, but how can I reload the timed out items? Since it could be really bad, when I get timed out when I cache the items. :(

By: Prabhat

Prabhat — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:28:27 +0000

this is really help full to me i hope u’ll continue with same enthu.

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