iOS 7 rewind songs on lock screen using AVPlayer

Question

I havn\'t found the way how to rewind song from lock screen iOS 7. Volume slider is available, all the buttons work correctly but the upper slider is not available!

Answer 1

You'll need to set this in the "now-playing info".

Whenever the item (track) changes, do something like

NSMutableDictionary *nowPlayingInfo = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];
[nowPlayingInfo setObject:track.artistName forKey:MPMediaItemPropertyArtist];
[nowPlayingInfo setObject:track.trackTitle forKey:MPMediaItemPropertyTitle];
...
[nowPlayingInfo setObject:[NSNumber numberWithDouble:self.player.rate] forKey:MPNowPlayingInfoPropertyPlaybackRate];
[nowPlayingInfo setObject:[NSNumber numberWithDouble:self.currentPlaybackTime] forKey:MPNowPlayingInfoPropertyElapsedPlaybackTime];
[MPNowPlayingInfoCenter defaultCenter].nowPlayingInfo = nowPlayingInfo;

Whenever the playback rate changes (play/pause), do

NSMutableDictionary *nowPlayingInfo = [[MPNowPlayingInfoCenter defaultCenter].nowPlayingInfo mutableCopy];
[nowPlayingInfo setObject:[NSNumber numberWithDouble:self.player.rate] forKey:MPNowPlayingInfoPropertyPlaybackRate];
[nowPlayingInfo setObject:[NSNumber numberWithDouble:self.currentPlaybackTime] forKey:MPNowPlayingInfoPropertyElapsedPlaybackTime];
[MPNowPlayingInfoCenter defaultCenter].nowPlayingInfo = nowPlayingInfo;

You can get the current playback time like this:

- (NSTimeInterval)currentPlaybackTime {
  CMTime time = self.player.currentTime;
  if (CMTIME_IS_VALID(time)) {
    return time.value / time.timescale;
  }
  return 0;
}