CODEWITHSUNDEEP
iphoneobjective-c
weber
weber

Reputation: 567

Determine song being played on iPhone by third-party app

I am trying to determine the title of the song currently being played on an iPhone. I know I can use the following code to find out what is playing if the native Apple app is playing the music but how do I find the title of a song if its being played from Spotify or some other music playing app?

MPMediaItem *nowPlayingItem = [[MPMusicPlayerController iPodMusicPlayer] nowPlayingItem];
NSString *itemTitle = [nowPlayingItem valueForProperty:MPMediaItemPropertyTitle];

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1648

Answers (2)

Saurabh
Saurabh

Reputation: 22873

No you can't get title of song if its playing in some other app!

Edit 1 -

You can't do that because Apple has a very strict policy that runs every app in its own little sandbox that cannot access any other applications data.

-- Thanks Emil ...

Upvotes: 4

indragie
indragie

Reputation: 18122

Assuming the app supports iOS 5's MPNowPlayingInfoCenter, you could do this:

NSDictionary *info = [[MPNowPlayingInfoCenter defaultCenter] nowPlayingInfo];
NSString *title = [info valueForKey:MPMediaItemPropertyTitle];

Upvotes: -1

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