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How to set the title on remote control when playing music in background using AVPlayer on ios7

How can I set title music on remote control on ios 7 during I use AVPlayer to play the music in background?

Solution

  • the class you want is MPNowPlayingInfoCenter .

    create a dictionary of values and pass them to it sorta like this...

    NSMutableDictionary *info=[NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithObjects:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"Song title",@"Artist name",nil] forKeys:[NSArray arrayWithObjects: MPMediaItemPropertyTitle,MPMediaItemPropertyArtist,nil]];
[[MPNowPlayingInfoCenter defaultCenter] setNowPlayingInfo:info];

    Make sure you import the following:

    #import <MediaPlayer/MPNowPlayingInfoCenter.h>
#import <MediaPlayer/MPMediaItem.h>
#import <MediaPlayer/MPMediaQuery.h>

    the keys in the dictionary are as follows:

    MPMediaItemPropertyAlbumTitle
MPMediaItemPropertyAlbumTrackCount
MPMediaItemPropertyAlbumTrackNumber
MPMediaItemPropertyArtist
MPMediaItemPropertyArtwork
MPMediaItemPropertyComposer
MPMediaItemPropertyDiscCount
MPMediaItemPropertyDiscNumber
MPMediaItemPropertyGenre
MPMediaItemPropertyPersistentID
MPMediaItemPropertyPlaybackDuration
MPMediaItemPropertyTitle
MPNowPlayingInfoPropertyElapsedPlaybackTime
MPNowPlayingInfoPropertyPlaybackRate;
MPNowPlayingInfoPropertyPlaybackQueueIndex;
MPNowPlayingInfoPropertyPlaybackQueueCount;
MPNowPlayingInfoPropertyChapterNumber;
MPNowPlayingInfoPropertyChapterCount;

    source:

    https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/mediaplayer/reference/MPNowPlayingInfoCenter_Class/Reference/Reference.html