I need to know how to get information about which player is currently streaming (player, spotify, napster...)

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I can get information (artist, album, title) of the song that is currently playing with:

let t = MPMusicPlayerController().nowPlayingItem?.title

It works fine when the music is streaming from the iOS Music Player. However, when the streaming is from other source (Spotify, Napster, Youtube, Tuneinradio, etc.) I can not get information. How can I get this information for any app?

try this one. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31427763/i-need-to-implement-music-player-using-av-player-in-swift — Badal Shah, Oct 16 '15 at 05:46
sorry but I do not need to play nothing in my app. My app is running and other app (Player, Spotify, Napster, ...) is playing something. I want to know the title of the song which is playing in those apps to show it in my app — Luis Abós, Oct 16 '15 at 12:42

JAL · Answer 1 · 2015-10-16T19:30:51.307

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Use the nowPlayingInfo dictionary on MPNowPlayingInfoCenter.defaultCenter():

let t = MPNowPlayingInfoCenter.defaultCenter().nowPlayingInfo[MPMediaItemPropertyTitle]

MPNowPlayingInfoCenter class reference here.

edited Oct 16 '15 at 19:30

answered Oct 16 '15 at 18:58

JAL

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Allways returns null value from newPlayingInfo – Omer Faruk Zorlu Jun 17 '17 at 22:09
It seems this API is for setting the info not to getting, and that's the reason of gets nil. – Seyed Samad Gholamzadeh Mar 18 '19 at 08:17
Ye, so is there any API to get it ? – Mathias Bradiceanu Dec 17 '22 at 14:19

I need to know how to get information about which player is currently streaming (player, spotify, napster...)

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