Wednesday, August 5, 2009

iPod Library Access

Audio content on tap:
With iPhone SDK 3.0, you can access a user’s music, podcasts and audio books from within your app. You can even leverage a user’s custom, On-The-Go, Genius and Smart playlists.For example, you could create a trivia game that uses the metadata of the user’s songs. Improve on an arcade game by using a playlist as its soundtrack, or add the ability to listen to podcast lectures in a note taking app. You can make almost any app more enjoyable by bringing a user’s personal music and audio choices into your app.


Take control:
Once you have access to the music and playlists, you have full control of the playback. You can play, pause, shuffle and repeat. While the user is listening to an audio track, you can follow where they are and even move to a specific part.

Playlists on-the-fly:
You can also build playlists using custom searches. Leveraging all of the metadata in the audio files, you can create custom playlists that match particular criteria. For example, if you want your app to play all of the podcasts from yesterday—you can build that from a search on Date Created and Content Type.

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