Hi.
I'm planning to develop kind of DJ application which loads musics from music library. And of course it'll sell in app store.
So question is, does it possible distribute in AppStore?
I found it was forbidden at least about 6 month ago... But I hope it is possible now...
In iPhone OS 2.x you can't access the music transferred to the phone via iTunes. You only have access to the data created by your own application.
The forthcoming version 3.0 does have this capability. Release notes include this
iPod Library Access
Several new classes and protocols have been added to the Media Player framework (MediaPlayer.framework) to allow access to the user’s audio library. You can use these classes to perform the following tasks:
- Play audio items from the user’s library. This support lets you play all audio types supported by the iPod application.
- Construct queues of audio items to play back.
- Perform searches of the user’s audio library.
- Access the user’s playlists (including smart, on-the-go, and genius playlists).
For more information about the classes of the Media Player framework, see Media Player Framework Reference.
(sorry,links may only be working for registered Apple developers).
In version 3.0 of the iPhone SDK you now have access to the music library.
To create a DJ application, won't you need the ability to load multiple songs at once then play over the top of each other?
As far as I know, the SDK only allows you to load 1 track at a time.
The SDK 3.0's Media Library Framework only allows you the most basic iPod controls over the music. You can't even output the .mp3 and work on it yourself (with OpenAL etc.).
So basically, its control can be only as capable as the iPod's, which is far too limited for any DJ applications.
Otherwise I would dream making the most amazing portable DJ device in the history of turntablism, ever. Hope we see that coming in SDK 3.1.
Just putting it out there:
If you want to use PrivateFrameworks and make an app for the hell of it, then there is a Private Framework called MusicLibrary.
Anyone have documentation on this private framework that ckrames1234 was talking about? I would like to have access to the itunes library, to tag tracks which is not possible with the Media Layer Framework.
Is this anything..?
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#codinghowtos/AudioAndVideo/index.html