Why is my MPMediaItem NowPlayingItem returning null? - ios6

I am incorporating the iPod player in my app. I am able to create a queue, then play the songs. I am not able to get the current song's property values. I have registered for the notifications and the log shows the notifications are bing triggered.
MPMediaItem *currentItem = self.musicPlayer.nowPlayingItem;
NSLog(#"currentItem = %#", currentItem);
Log output shows: currentItem = (null)
I'm running Xcode 4.5.2 iOS 6.0.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

For anyone else who may run into the same issue, the problem was that I synced my Music after running my application. You need to observe for Library changes:
MPMediaLibraryDidChangeNotification
[[MPMediaLibrary defaultLibrary] beginGeneratingLibraryChangeNotifications];

You wrote NSLog(#"currentItem = %#", currentItem); in your codes but maybe you have not got a full understand of what MPMediaItem is.
MPMediaItem is not NSString, and that's why you got null here. MPMediaItem has a lot of properties including song title, album name and artist name. To access the properties of MPMediaItem such as the title, use valueForProperty: method.
NSLog(#"currentItem = %#", [currentItem valueForProperty:MPMediaItemPropertyTitle])
Something like this.

I also had the problem that I mixed by accident the application player
[MPMusicPlayerController applicationMusicPlayer]
and the ipod player
[MPMusicPlayerController iPodMusicPlayer]
I was using the iPodMusicPlayer for playing music and tried to adjust the volume of the applicationMusicPlayer by accident.
So just beware not to mix them unintentionally ;-)

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Offline HLS Fairplay playback error when the app is closed, code 16227

I'm implementing Offline Playback with HLS Fairplay following the demo in the FairPlay Streaming Server SDK v4.0.1 that uses AVContentSessionKey.
I download three contents, each content is downloaded and persisted correctly, both the .movpkg and its content key on the documents directory, when I turn off the WIFI these three contents downloaded plays correctly without any problems, before playing Im using this code:
let urlAsset = element.urlAsset!
ContentKeyManager.shared.contentKeySession.addContentKeyRecipient(urlAsset)
if !urlAsset.resourceLoader.preloadsEligibleContentKeys {
urlAsset.resourceLoader.preloadsEligibleContentKeys = true
}
self.present(playerViewController, animated: true, completion: {
AssetPlaybackManager.sharedManager.setAssetForPlayback(urlAsset)
})
So far so good. But the problem is when I close the application (Home button to close applications) and then play the downloaded contents, only the last content downloaded plays correctly, the other ones (first and second) send these error on the console.
Error Domain=AVFoundationErrorDomain Code=-11800 "The operation could not be completed"
UserInfo={NSUnderlyingError=0x1c065d760 {Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-16227 "(null)"},
NSLocalizedFailureReason=An unknown error occurred (-16227),
NSURL=file:///private/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/A950D8DB-B711-47E3-AAF5-C95CC9682430/Library/com.apple.UserManagedAssets.kkG8Ih/644986_7798B8476A473F68.movpkg/, NSLocalizedDescription=The operation could not be completed}
I double check the .movpkg with the keys in the documents directory and appears correctly
/Documents/.keys/one-key
/Documents/.keys/two-key
/Documents/.keys/three-key
Before the error occurs the ContentKeyDelegate is called and the key is loaded and passed to the request correctly.
if persistableContentKeyExistsOnDisk(withContentKeyIdentifier: assetIDString) {
let urlToPersistableKey = urlForPersistableContentKey(withContentKeyIdentifier: assetIDString)
guard let contentKey = FileManager.default.contents(atPath: urlToPersistableKey.path) else {
/
pendingPersistableContentKeyIdentifiers.remove(assetIDString)
return
}
/
Create an AVContentKeyResponse from the persistent key data to use for requesting a key for
decrypting content.
*/
let keyResponse = AVContentKeyResponse(fairPlayStreamingKeyResponseData: contentKey)
/
keyRequest.processContentKeyResponse(keyResponse)
return
}
If I print the contentKeyRecipients the three contents appears correctly
- (lldb) po
ContentKeyManager.shared.contentKeySession.contentKeyRecipients ▿ 3
elements
- 0 : AVURLAsset: 0x1c0234d40, URL = file:///private/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/E791A4DE-4261-46B7-A84D-D10B27035FAE/Library/com.apple.UserManagedAssets.kkG8Ih/539628_20469336224AA388.movpkg
- 1 : AVURLAsset: 0x1c0234fa0, URL = file:///private/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/E791A4DE-4261-46B7-A84D-D10B27035FAE/Library/com.apple.UserManagedAssets.kkG8Ih/644986_7798B8476A473F68.movpkg
- 2 : AVURLAsset: 0x1c42391c0, URL = file:///private/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/E791A4DE-4261-46B7-A84D-D10B27035FAE/Library/com.apple.UserManagedAssets.kkG8Ih/573744_62377F9549C45B93.movpkg
My tests are in iOS 11.1.2 and iOS 11.2 beta 2
I'm not sure what is happening, but seems to be a problem with the persisted key, I don't how if each content needs to be associated with one AVContentKeySession at time.
If someone faced a similar problem, any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance
I'm having similar issue.
however, since I need to support iOS 10, I'm not using the new AVContentKeyResponse class. Instead, I'm loading the persistent content key myself, and pass it to the loading request.
Anyway, I'm getting exact the same error as you and same behavior. One thing to note is that if I remove the code that loads persistent content key from disk, and always fetch the key from server, then everything works. But this defeats the purpose of "offline" playback...
So it seems like the system thinks the persistent content key is invalid...
Which TLLV you used on the server side to specify Rental Duration of the downloaded content? Did you use Content key duration TLLV or Offline Key TLLV? If you used Offline Key TLLV you need to double check that "Content ID" field is different for every downloaded movie.
We had encounter this error message, too.
It will happen when content exceed over expiration date which set in server side.
For example :
We give 10 minutes of expiration date for Video A
Download this Video A, and verify CKC delivery correctly (print log)
Play Video A without connection
Take a break (after 11 minutes), close App, and launch App again, select Video A to Play
Show below error message from AVPlayerItem.error.description:
Error Domain=AVFoundationErrorDomain Code=-11800
"The operation could not be completed" UserInfo={NSLocalizedFailureReason=An unknown error occurred (-16227),
NSLocalizedDescription=The operation could not be completed, NSUnderlyingError=0x1d4257310
{Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-16227 "(null)"}}
You can refresh encrypted data again by
AVAssetResourceLoaderDelegate
or use AVContentSessionKey
Reference : https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2018/507/
Make sure you set correct offline content identifier on a serverside. The identifier you set should be associated with the specific rendition/stream allowed by the license. This helped me.

NancyFx will not display images

My last attempt: Don't even know what I'm doing anymore:
Get["/{any}/x.png"] = x => {
return Response.AsImage(Program.portal.ourRoot + "x.png");
};
Get["/{any}/{moreany}/x.png"] = x => {
return Response.AsImage(Program.portal.ourRoot + "x.png");
};
Get["/{any}/{moreany}/{extraany}/x.png"] = x => {
return Response.AsImage(Program.portal.ourRoot + "x.png");
};
What I currently have in my ConfigureConvetions (in the BootStrapper). I've tried a lot of permutations so far.
protected override void ConfigureConventions(NancyConventions conventions) {
//conventions.StaticContentsConventions.AddFile("x.png", ourRoot + "x.png");
conventions.StaticContentsConventions.Add(StaticContentConventionBuilder.AddFile("/portal/images/x.png", ourRoot + "x.png"));
conventions.StaticContentsConventions.Add(StaticContentConventionBuilder.AddDirectory("images", ourRoot, new string[] { "png" }));
conventions.StaticContentsConventions.Add(StaticContentConventionBuilder.AddDirectory("/portal/", ourRoot, new string[] { "png" }));
conventions.StaticContentsConventions.Add(StaticContentConventionBuilder.AddDirectory("/", ourRoot, new string[] { "png" }));
base.ConfigureConventions(conventions);
}
I have a CustomRootPathProvider that points to ourRoot (string, currently holds a direct C:\somepathstuffhere\ to a content directory).
I only need to serve a single image for my needs (at least, for now, things always tend to grow). I'm using the directory structure as variables, so I need to be able to serve this image from a very large amount of locations.
I have a copy of the image in my root folder, and in a directory called images (the "images" has had '/''s all over it, occasionally even through the middle). I am currently referencing the image with "/images/x.png", but I've tried from the root, just the name, and "images/x.png".
Thanks!
I will post back in the mean time if I figure it out (I'm assuming its something very simple.)
Solved: Worked Around? \ Non-Optimal
I changed my /images/x.png references to 'x.png', and then I dropped the extension reference to the following line.
conventions.StaticContentsConventions.Add(StaticContentConventionBuilder.AddDirectory("/", ourRoot));
Nancy started catching the 'x.png' image for the Root Page and the \Portal\ page. And then the 2nd Get /{any}/{moreany}/x.png started catching the rest of the 'x.png' requests (\Portal\Project).
I'm really not sure, why it started working all of a sudden. I've just been playing the permutation game.
The big non-optimal part, is every single directory's version of the image is treated as brand new. If anyone can solve this one for me, that'd be nice. If I figure out what to do to fix it myself, I will post back with my solution.
SOLVED
This solution won't interest anyone familiar with web programming. Its more of a new user pitfall situation. When I started setting up NancyFX I read the documentation fairly thoroughly (even if I didn't get it all on the first read). When I got to the web.config part, I first checked the Solution Explorer in VS and I didn't see one. So I just went into my project directory and created one (And there-in lies the problem). The one I made never applied settings to the project.
I figured it was a concept error, I just didn't know enough, to know where to look.\
Thx for the community's help! Hopefully my experience helps some other 1st time user out.

FBPlacePickerViewController doesn't load any data

I am trying to use FBPlacePickerViewController and it doesn't seem to load any data.
Here is my code:
FBPlacePickerViewController *picker = (FBPlacePickerViewController*)segue.destinationViewController;
picker.navigationController.navigationBarHidden = YES;
picker.delegate = self;
picker.radiusInMeters = 1000;
picker.resultsLimit = 30;
if([TonerAppDelegate instance].lastLocation != nil){
picker.locationCoordinate = [TonerAppDelegate instance].lastLocation.coordinate;
[picker loadData];
}
[TonerAppDelegate instance].lastLocationUpdateFunction = ^{
picker.locationCoordinate = [TonerAppDelegate instance].lastLocation.coordinate;
[picker loadData];
};
It is an embed segue (iOS 6). I verify that the picker is a valid object. The [picker loadData] method does get called, and the coordinate data is perfectly valid. I am not getting any exceptions or warnings. I've allowed my app to access to my location in iOS and I double-verified that in Settings. My iPod is connected to the Internet and the connection works perfectly. All the other apps can use location services without any problem. So, there probably is a problem with my implementation of the place picker. I've also implemented the -(void)placePickerViewControllerDataDidChange:(FBPlacePickerViewController *)placePicker and -(BOOL)placePickerViewController:(FBPlacePickerViewController *)placePicker shouldIncludePlace:(id<FBGraphPlace>) methods of the delegate, and they aren't getting called either. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Can.
Found the answer: I wasn't creating the Facebook session before displaying the place picker. I totally forgot about the session. It'd be nice to see Facebook add an assertion check in loadData method of the picker for an existing Facebook session. I've created the session, and THEN tried my code, and it works perfectly now.

How to play an attachment video from the timeline item

I want to insert a timelineitem with video attachment and if user selects a specific menu item, glass to play the video. I'm doing all from .net app like this, please correct me, if i'm doing wrong.
TimelineItem item = new TimelineItem()
item.MenuItems.Insert(0, new MenuItem(){Action="what is the action to use?";...});
request = Service.Timeline.Insert(item, attachment, contentType);
request.Upload();
I would like to know, do i need a menu item, if yes, what is the action i should use?
Currently i'm sending the video attachment, but there is no way to play the video.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
You don't need to specify any menuItems but your timeline item should not contain html content.
Make sure that your video is of a supported format: once it's inserted, and Glass has synced and fully downloaded the attached video, it should start playing right when you land on the item in your timeline.
This works using the QuickStart project for Java (mirror-java-starter-demo):
https://github.com/googleglass/mirror-quickstart-java
Replace the lines near line 119 in MainServlet.java with this:
URL url = new URL(req.getParameter("imageUrl"));
String contentType = req.getParameter("contentType");
url = new URL("http://localhost:8888/static/videos/video.mp4");
contentType = "video/mp4";
byte[] b = ByteStreams.toByteArray(url.openStream());
int i = b.length;
InputStream temp = url.openStream();
MirrorClient.insertTimelineItem(credential, timelineItem, contentType, temp);
Then run the project and click the "A Picture" button to upload a video from a new folder inside static called videos called video.mp4. I used a 10 second clip I recorded with glass (6.30 MB).
Note that when running with App Engine 1.76 on a windows machine I got this error when uploading, but changing to 1.80 made this issue go away:
Here is Windows metadata about the video that might be useful:
Depending on your network connection it might take a little bit for the video to show in your timeline, but mine plays.

Facebook (web) dialog started immediately dismissing on iOS6/SDK3.1|3.2

I had some code to post to a friend's facebook wall that upon the deprecation of this via Open Graph I changed to use the deprecated headers and Facebook dialog to include the user in the posting. That has been working for weeks, but seems to have stopped working (worked fine Tuesday, failed Wednesday) in production application (i.e. no code change or re-build.)
I've spent hours trying all sort of things (running on main thread, asserting sessions are live, re-writting to SDK 3.2, uninstalling app/re-installing, completely changing the dialog type and post contents) to restore the ability but whatever I do the dialog immediately dismisses. [Note: There are no developer alerts on our app, and I believe that none of the app settings have changed.]
Here is the code. The facebookManager "performConnectedAction" is from the Facebook sample to ensure an active session (and I assert it w/o problem.) :
NSMutableDictionary *wallPost = [NSMutableDictionary dictionary];
// Content populating not show (and I've tried various simplifications)
// Who to...
[wallPost setObject:_selectedUser.id forKey:kFB_FIELD_TO];
[facebookManager performConnectedAction:^{
FBSession *facebookSession = facebookManager.facebookSession;
Assert( facebookSession.isOpen, #"Need an open Facebook session.");
[FBWebDialogs presentFeedDialogModallyWithSession:facebookSession parameters:wallPost handler:^(FBWebDialogResult result, NSURL *resultURL,NSError *error) {
if ( !!error ) {
[self logEventWithFormat:#"Failed to invite on Facebook [%#]", error];
}
}];
}];
Basically ... not only does the dialog flash up/down, but no callback is given (no error or result provided.) All other parts of the Facebook application continue to operate (our graph calls, our Facebook Friends dialog, and so on.)
I'd appreciate any thoughts on ways to investigate this further. I have filed a bug report:
http://developers.facebook.com/bugs/165456656937602?browse=search_5130e2d7663dd6543665811
I had the same issue and fixed it by delaying the method call like this. My method is fbWallPost
[self performSelector:#selector(fbWallPost) withObject:nil afterDelay:0.5];

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