Chapter 12. Media: audio and recording

This chapter covers

  • Accessing the iPod library to play music
  • Recording audio from the built-in microphone
  • Playing sounds
  • Recording, playing, and accessing video

In the previous chapter, we discussed the basics of images. This chapter will detail how to play and record various types of audio and video. This will include how to play back audio items in the user’s iPod library as well as how to record to and play from the user’s video library.

To further demonstrate these concepts, you’ll create two sample applications. The first application is a simple media player that lets the user choose a song from their iPod library and play it back within the application. The next will be a simple recording and ...

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