mobilePickMedia - is it possible to get the 'human' names of the media?

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Ben,

I don't know if LiveCode can do this by itself already, but I was working on an external that does this. I got pretty far with it. If you're interested, you can contact me off-list.

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On 1 nov 2012, at 11:20, Ben Rubinstein wrote:

> I can use iPhonePickMedia to ask the user to select some tracks - and get back, at least on iOS, some obscure URLs like:
> 	ipod-library://item/item.mp3?id=7520634390215469487
> 
> Is there any way to get the title or other data of the track?
> 
> Or, going the other way, is there some way on the device to read through the installed tracks and/or playlists... and relate that to playable URLs?
> 
> (I'm not trying to sneak behind the user's back, but to be able to set up playlists in my app, and show the user what they've got selected in a form that they can understand - if they have to remember that "7520634390215469487" is what they got when they selected Justin Bieber's new track, this won't be very helpful!)
> 
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions,
> 
> Ben