Comments on: Android - binding to the Music app service to find currently playing song

By: Grzegorz Madajczak

Grzegorz Madajczak — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 08:22:11 +0000

mytharak :
Cool article!
You should be able to access the media player’s service from your app without including it manually.
Have you tried “import com.android.music.IMediaPlaybackService” instead of manually including the aidl file?

It is impossible, because com.android.music is not in android SDK.

By: Grzegorz Madajczak

Grzegorz Madajczak — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 08:11:11 +0000

Hello!
First of all - thank you for nice article. It’s clear and very usefull.
I tried to implement this method in my project, but always I have exception: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.SecurityException: Binder invocation to an incorrect interface.
My pastebin with whole exception is: http://android.pastebin.com/Xj7WpiJ3.

I will be appreciated for advice, how to resolve this problem…
I will add, that this is the same problem as in #10 post by Sathya.

By: chopcsu

chopcsu — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 05:07:54 +0000

So found out HTC have started using their own music player, as well as Sony Ericsson, so this method will not work on X10’s & Legends..will post other phones I come across that do not have the default android music player

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By: mytharak

mytharak — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:26:53 +0000

Cool article!

You should be able to access the media player’s service from your app without including it manually.

Have you tried “import com.android.music.IMediaPlaybackService” instead of manually including the aidl file?

By: chopcsu

chopcsu — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 03:50:38 +0000

Does anyone if there are any other mechanisms to detect a song change other than just polling?

By: shubham

shubham — Wed, 26 May 2010 09:30:42 +0000

Hi friends,
Any body have idea How cna i play music file over coming call.
Pls reply ,
thanks in advance.

By: Jorge Rivera

Jorge Rivera — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:38:46 +0000

Hi,

Thanks a lot for the post, it was really helpful!

Has anyone tried to enqueue a list of songs using the .enqueue method? I have a little problem with it: I send a bunch of songs and only the first HALF of the songs get added to the list. I tried using the NOW, NEXT and LAST position options, and various sizes of lists of songs. For an odd number of songs, it adds half of (list+1).

Any ideas?

By: NPS

NPS — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:34:24 +0000

Hi can you pls give us a working example ,
What we are trying to do is tag the currently playing song so for that we need to get the info like the actual path to the song and also the artist info and all some how i cannot find the IMediaPlaybackService.aidl file in my android sdk

could you direct me towards that

By: Sathya

Sathya — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:46:13 +0000

Hi MarGau,

Thanks for the reply. It worked..