Remember the game Music Quiz on iPods? Why not on iPhone?

[Pooshka]

It was such a cool music game. Loved to test my knowledge of my 1000-song library. With touchscreen, this game would absolutely rock. Could any of you, dear developers, develop it, pretty please. :D

[Small White Car]

It was such a cool music game. Loved to test my knowledge of my 1000-song library. With touchscreen, this game would absolutely rock. Could any of you, dear developers, develop it, pretty please. :D

I hadn't thought about this, but now that you mention it, I am pretty surprised no one has done this yet.

Could it be that only Apple could make a version that can play Fairplay DRM songs? If so, that might explain the lack of developer interest in the project.

[M-5]

I don't think Apps from the App Store are allowed to access your Musical Library.

[Pooshka]

I'm sure Apple could have done it for us no sweat. :rolleyes:

[NT1440]

if its really that important to you, jailbreak.

[Warbrain]

if its really that important to you, jailbreak.

Buzzer sure is fun...

[BergerFan]

I completely forgot about Music Quiz. I used to use it a lot when I had my 20GB iPod 4th gen.

[Memx]

kk well it may be about a year later, lol, u guys a probably way past this now, but they have made a music quiz for iphone/ipod touch.
just type in music quiz in ur APP STORE or in iTunes and it'll come up with a few.
The best, i'd say, is TUNES QUIZ.

[labman]

one of my favorite games and the Dev came on here recently updated and improved. Music Library Quiz (http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=320554766&mt=8) :D

[cellocello]

With a flexible UI, you could do a lot of neat stuff like matching the album art to the song playing and so on, instead of just matching song with title.

[iHateMacs]

I don't think Apps from the App Store are allowed to access your Musical Library.

They must be able to. Try TuneWiki. It shows song lyrics as it plays tunes from your library. It lets you look through the library by artist, album, playlist etc.

Maybe it's just accessing the ipod app by the backdoor (as it can play in the background).

However it does it, there must be a hook somewhere for developers to access your library.

[TMar]

They must be able to. Try TuneWiki. It shows song lyrics as it plays tunes from your library. It lets you look through the library by artist, album, playlist etc.

Maybe it's just accessing the ipod app by the backdoor (as it can play in the background).

However it does it, there must be a hook somewhere for developers to access your library.

I don't think they can access the library but they can control the native ipod app.

[cellocello]

I don't think they can access the library but they can control the native ipod app.

I thought Devs had APIs since 3.0 that gave them access to the iPod music library?

[TMar]

I thought Devs had APIs since 3.0 that gave them access to the iPod music library?

Take tonewiki for example. It can access the the library for track information for artist, title and so forth. They have the API's for view the library and the API's to control the ipod but I don't believe they can play music files natively.

[cellocello]

Take tonewiki for example. It can access the the library for track information for artist, title and so forth. They have the API's for view the library and the API's to control the ipod but I don't believe they can play music files natively.

Are you sure?

I thought some games had built-in music control UIs

[iFerd]

one of my favorite games and the Dev came on here recently updated and improved. Music Library Quiz (http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=320554766&mt=8) :D
I thought of this one too. I didn't use the original, but this works well on the iPhone.

[TMar]

Are you sure?

I thought some games had built-in music control UIs

Yeah, they have UI's to control the ipod that playing in the background. I'm not going to say I'm 100% sure but I'm fairly sure.

[cellocello]

Yeah, they have UI's to control the ipod that playing in the background. I'm not going to say I'm 100% sure but I'm fairly sure.

Wait, so what's the difference?

All a music quiz game would need is the ability to read the tag info and play back the music, no?

[bob616]

Yeah it is definatly possible devs have access to the music library with 3.0
Maybe I should make it :rolleyes:

[moremobilejanus]

Previous postings are correct - developers have had access to the music library since the release of 3.0. Not the digitized music itself, but to the song meta data like titles etc etc and the ability to play it back. Hence the proliferation of music quiz apps like the 2 mentioned above but there are many more. Including mine called "Name My Tune" which I happen to like best, but obviously I'm a bit biased.
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=323409488&mt=8

FYI: New version in review - setting added to EXCLUDE playlists from game play (for those that have audio that shows up as songs but aren't really songs)


Thanks for listening!