How to play or resume music of another music player from my code

Question

In my Android app I want to play or resume the played music after I pause it. I got my app to pause the music by sending a broadcast, but I can't get it to play or resume the music.

Here is the code to pause:

Intent i = new Intent("com.android.music.musicservicecommand");
i.putExtra("command", "pause");
sendBroadcast(i);

josh527 · Accepted Answer · 2019-03-18T22:02:22.510

Here is what I have discovered after testing these.

I have tried and verified these commands to work just fine.

// pause
Intent i = new Intent("com.android.music.musicservicecommand");
i.putExtra("command", "pause");
sendBroadcast(i);

// play
Intent i = new Intent("com.android.music.musicservicecommand");
i.putExtra("command", "play");
sendBroadcast(i);

// next
Intent i = new Intent("com.android.music.musicservicecommand");
i.putExtra("command", "next");
sendBroadcast(i);

// previous
Intent i = new Intent("com.android.music.musicservicecommand");
i.putExtra("command", "previous");
sendBroadcast(i);

Some more info about available commands:

public static final String SERVICECMD = "com.android.music.musicservicecommand";
public static final String CMDNAME = "command";
public static final String CMDTOGGLEPAUSE = "togglepause";
public static final String CMDSTOP = "stop";
public static final String CMDPAUSE = "pause";
public static final String CMDPLAY = "play";
public static final String CMDPREVIOUS = "previous";
public static final String CMDNEXT = "next";

taken from: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Music/+/master/src/com/android/music/MediaPlaybackService.java

these command will only work if the song is played by default music Player. otherwise it will not work — shehzy, Mar 04 '15 at 08:19

caiocpricci2 · Answer 2 · 2013-02-16T15:09:41.053

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Try to use

Intent i = new Intent("com.android.music.musicservicecommand");
i.putExtra("command", "togglepause");
sendBroadcast(i);

Update

Try with the following action :

Intent i = new Intent("com.android.music.musicservicecommand.togglepause");
i.putExtra("command", "togglepause");
sendBroadcast(i);

edited Feb 16 '13 at 15:09

answered Feb 16 '13 at 12:41

caiocpricci2

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it doesn't do anything. `i.putExtra("command", "pause");` pauses the music. I want to resume it – iboalali Feb 16 '13 at 12:51
if you use `togglepause` that does not pause/resume it? That's weird. I'll dig a bit deeper and check other ways of doing it. – caiocpricci2 Feb 16 '13 at 14:10
can "togglepause" pause and resume the music? – iboalali Feb 16 '13 at 17:10
Use i.putExtra("command", "play"); after "pause". This will resume the music from where it was paused. – Vishal Sharma Sep 27 '17 at 05:36

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