How to detect a song playing by iPod

Question

Is it possible programmatically find out a song details of iPod library if my app allows playing background iPod music? some like:

start "My app"
if (iPod music playing)
{
song.details == playing.music.details"
}

I don't even have no idea how to determinate if is any song is playing by iPod. Any idea?

Answer 1

It kinda easy:

MPMusicPlayerController *musicPlayer = [MPMusicPlayerController iPodMusicPlayer]];

NSLog(@"Playing %@", [[musicPlayer nowPlayingItem] valueForProperty:MPMediaItemPropertyArtist]);

Answer 2

See the Media Player Framework Reference:

"This framework...gives your application access to the iPod library."