iOS: How do I detect if music is playing in any background music app?

Question

I currently have my game correctly handling disabling its own BGM when music is playing in the built-in iPod app, but it does not detect when an app such as Pandora is playi

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Seems you can see if another audio is playing by checking the property kAudioSessionProperty_OtherAudioIsPlaying like this:

UInt32 propertySize, audioIsAlreadyPlaying=0;
propertySize = sizeof(UInt32);
AudioSessionGetProperty(kAudioSessionProperty_OtherAudioIsPlaying, &propertySize, &audioIsAlreadyPlaying);

A complement to this could be to ask the user if he/she wants to have the game music or the already playing sound/music.