Receive remote control events without audio

Question

Here is some background information, otherwise skip ahead to the question in bold. I am building an app and I would like it to have access to the remote control/lock screen

Answer 1

Moshe's solution worked great for me! However one issue I noticed is when you paused the audio, the media controls would go away and you won't be able to play it again without going back into the app. If you set the Media Info on the lock screen when you play the audio then this won't happen:

NSDictionary *mediaInfo = @{MPMediaItemPropertyTitle: @"My Title",
                                 MPMediaItemPropertyAlbumTitle: @"My Album Name",
                                 MPMediaItemPropertyPlaybackDuration: [NSNumber numberWithFloat:0.30f]};
[[MPNowPlayingInfoCenter defaultCenter] setNowPlayingInfo:mediaInfo];