iPhone sdk - accessing current song information through an app

Question

Is it possible to retrieve the info about the current song being played. I\'m looking to get the artist and title so I can then display this on an app?

Answer 1

It is not currently possible with iPhone OS 2.0, but (without breaking any NDA) it was publicly disclosed on March 17th that iPhone OS 3.0 will add a new API that'll allow apps to extract metadata from the iPod application... I haven't looked at the API myself, but if you have an ADC account you should have a look at the API. I would'nt be surprised if you could get the currently playing song...