How To Call iPod Library In A User Application

Question

Hello Respected Friends,

I would like to know is it possible to access iPod (GUI) in a user application, so that user can select few song and create his playlist. For better user interaction i would like to use default iPod GUI. Is there any way to call it in our application. It is not easy to create a similar GUI like iPod library. Please try to help me in solving this problem.

Thank You Rahul

Answer 1

There is Ipod access starting with SDK 3.0 in OS 3.0, heres a link to the documentation, i never used it to i cant give you details of what you can or cannot do. http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/Audio/Conceptual/iPodLibraryAccess_Guide/iPodLibraryAccess_Guide.pdf

Answer 2

http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/Audio/Conceptual/iPodLibraryAccess_Guide/iPodLibraryAccess_Guide.pdf

That document should have everything you need to get started.

Answer 3

Hello Friend,

I already go through it. I am accessing audio files from iPod library and i successfully play it.There is option to filter audios according to album, artist, title etc. Id once we created a query we can directly attach this query to either local music player or iPod music player. Everything is good, but i want ipod gui, other wise to create such gui is not easy.

We can use URL call(URLs that start: http://phobos.) but it will close our application or we dont have control over our application. SO i am little confused how to handle this situation.

Thank you for the reply.

Answer 4

http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/MediaPlayer/Reference/MPMediaPickerController_ClassReference/MPMediaPickerController_ClassReference.pdf

The MPMediaPickerController will provide you with an interface for picking media from the iPod library.