How can you play music from the iPod app while still receiving remote control events in your app?

Question

Ok, I\'m trying to let a user choose songs from their iPod library to listen to, but I still want to receive remote control notifications (headphones, lock screen osd, etc.)

Answer 1

One think I noticed about MPMediaItemPropertyAssetURL is that, although the object returned is in NSURL but the absoluteString is something like this:

ipod-library://item/item.mp3?id=580807975475997900

Which is not what AVAudioPlayer want. What AVAudioPlayer want is NSURL object that is created from a file with a valid file path.

And I have no idea how to get file path from MPMediaItem. So I guess maybe AVPlayer is the way to go if you want to play iPod track without using MPMusicPlayer.