MPMoviePlayerController current playing item details?

Question

i am playing a audio stream url using MPMoviePlayerController, it works fine, is their any way to get the details of current playing track ..i mean song title, artist name etc.

thanks in advance

Answer 1

Addt this ur .h file

@property (nonatomic, retain) MPMusicPlayerController *musicPlayer;
@property (nonatomic, retain) IBOutlet UILabel *songLabel;
@property (nonatomic, retain) IBOutlet UILabel *artistLabel;
@property (nonatomic, retain) IBOutlet UILabel *albumLabel;


- (void)handleNowPlayingItemChanged:(id)notification 
{
// Ask the music player for the current song.
MPMediaItem *currentItem = self.musicPlayer.nowPlayingItem;

// Display the artist, album, and song name for the now-playing media item.
// These are all UILabels.
 self.songLabel.text   = [currentItem valueForProperty:MPMediaItemPropertyTitle];
 self.artistLabel.text = [currentItem valueForProperty:MPMediaItemPropertyArtist];
 self.albumLabel.text  = [currentItem valueForProperty:MPMediaItemPropertyAlbumTitle];    
 // Display album artwork. self.artworkImageView is a UIImageView.
 CGSize artworkImageViewSize = self.artworkImageView.bounds.size;
 MPMediaItemArtwork *artwork = [currentItem valueForProperty:MPMediaItemPropertyArtwork];
 if (artwork != nil) 
 {
      self.artworkImageView.image = [artwork imageWithSize:artworkImageViewSize];
 }   
else
{
        self.artworkImageView.image = nil;
}
}

Answer 2

MPMoviePlayerController does not support getting ID3-based metadata out of the played stream. You will have to use MPMusicPlayerController (local content) or possibly AVPlayer (streamed content) to get that accomplished. Though I must admit that I am not entirely sure if AVPlayer/AVPlayerItem will actually get the job done - I have never tried it myself.