MPMusicPlayerController Class Reference

Tasks

Getting a Music Player

• + applicationMusicPlayer
• + iPodMusicPlayer

Setting Up a Playback Queue

Before a music player can produce sound, it needs a playback queue. You provide the music player with its playback queue, which specifies the media items to be played.

• – setQueueWithQuery:
• – setQueueWithItemCollection:

Managing Playback Mode and State

•   nowPlayingItem  property
•   indexOfNowPlayingItem  property
•   playbackState  property
•   repeatMode  property
•   shuffleMode  property
•   volume  property

Controlling Playback

• – skipToNextItem
• – skipToBeginning
• – skipToPreviousItem

Using Music Player Notifications

These methods control the posting of playback notifications. You can nest calls to start or end these notifications.

• – beginGeneratingPlaybackNotifications
• – endGeneratingPlaybackNotifications

enum {
   MPMusicPlaybackStateStopped,
   MPMusicPlaybackStatePlaying,
   MPMusicPlaybackStatePaused,
   MPMusicPlaybackStateInterrupted,
   MPMusicPlaybackStateSeekingForward,
   MPMusicPlaybackStateSeekingBackward
};
typedef NSInteger MPMusicPlaybackState;

enum {
   MPMusicRepeatModeDefault,
   MPMusicRepeatModeNone,
   MPMusicRepeatModeOne,
   MPMusicRepeatModeAll
};
typedef NSInteger MPMusicRepeatMode;

enum {
   MPMusicShuffleModeDefault,
   MPMusicShuffleModeOff,
   MPMusicShuffleModeSongs,
   MPMusicShuffleModeAlbums
};
typedef NSInteger MPMusicShuffleMode;