How to stop Music Player? 3rd Edition.

[viktor_m]

Hi all,

What is the right way to stop MusicPlayer application on Symbian 3rd edition phones?
My application plays audio and if the MusicPlayer is running in backgroumd, both audios are playing simultaneously.

I would expect that MusicPlayer has a highest priority and my application would not play.
But CMdaAudioPlayerUtility client do plays the sound at the same time as MusicPlayer with or without MultimediaDD capability. CVideoPlayerUtility client usually unable to start the video with sound when MusicPlayer is running, but on some devices it also plays audio while MusicPlayer is playing.

To stop the MusicPlayer I tried:
TApaTask::EndTask();
TApaTask::KillTask();
This work on old devices but does not work on FP1 devices.

I tried playing with CRemConCoreApiController like this:

	iRemConCoreApiController = CRemConCoreApiController::NewL(*iSelector, *this);
	iTarget = CRemConCoreApiTarget::NewL( *iSelector, *this ); 
	iSelector->OpenTargetL();
	iSelector->OpenControllerL();
	TRequestStatus  status;
	TUint numRemotes = 0;
	TRemConCoreApiButtonAction butAct = ERemConCoreApiButtonClick;
	iRemConCoreApiController->Stop(status, numRemotes, butAct);
	User::WaitForRequest(status);

This does not work.

I also tried CMPlayerRemoteControl extended api for 3rd ed. FP1.

iMPlayerRemoteControl = MPlayerRemoteControlFactory::NewRemoteControlL();
iMPlayerRemoteControl->HandleCommand(EMPlayerRCtrlCmdStop);

it works on N95 with WriteDeviceData capabiluty, but does not work on N95 8GB.

So how to stop MusicPlayer, like e.g. VisuallRadio stops it?

[viktor_m]

Maybe somebody from Nokia can make it clear.

How audio applications:
Music Player, Visual Radio, Sound Recorder, RealPlayer and others
communicate with each other to stop audio playback when another audio application is started?

How developers can programmatically stop, pause or close currently playing application?
Actually TApaTask::EndTask() helps in most cases, it can close all apps except Music Player.
When Music Player launched from within File Manager or Gallery, it can be closed also.

Only Music Player itself can not be closed in this way. How to stop or pause it?

br

[rathodavinash]

Even I would like to know that.

[EzD2]

How developers can programmatically stop, pause or close currently playing application?
Actually TApaTask::EndTask() helps in most cases, it can close all apps except Music Player.
When Music Player launched from within File Manager or Gallery, it can be closed also.

Only Music Player itself can not be closed in this way. How to stop or pause it?

br

I had been trying to close the Music Player using TApaTask::EndTask() with no luck until I found out that PowerMgmt capability is needed in the calling application to close it. Only tested in a Nokia N73 (Symbian 9.1), though. Hope this could help someone...

Cheers!

[lancemachine]

Consider you have a Windows Media player playing some good music, then you start a game, what would it do? pause or stop the music, or even kill Windows Media process? No game, or any other application, as far as I know, does that.

[yfw1966]

I had been trying to close the Music Player using TApaTask::EndTask() with no luck until I found out that PowerMgmt capability is needed in the calling application to close it. Only tested in a Nokia N73 (Symbian 9.1), though. Hope this could help someone...

Cheers!

Thanks
In my application, TApaTask::EndTask() with the capability PowerMgmt does not work yet, but TApaTask::KillTask() with the capability PowerMgmt works fine! my application is running in s60 fp2, E75. hope it could help others.

[symbianyucca]

using the KillTask for the purspose is reall, really, really bad and can lead to many unwanted problems. Basically the end task is rather much safer, simply because it at least gives a chance for the player to actually do normal cleanup before exiting.

[dahiya.vinod]

nokia applications use MMPXPlaybackUtility class in Music player(I saw it in symbian source code). Refer to its various classes of this api, you my find some way to open communication with and already running instance of music player and pause it before playing your content.

or

Play your content using MMPXPlaybackUtility api. I think it should pause ongoing music and play your content.

Here is a wiki link about this api.
http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.ph...ck_Utility_API