Android Music Player Intents

There are a good set of intents for Android default music player which allows application to control the Player behaviour without even having to launch the Music player

Some of them are below 

AudioManager mAudioManager = (AudioManager) this.getSystemService(Context.AUDIO_SERVICE);

                        if (mAudioManager.isMusicActive()) {

                            Intent musicPlayerIntent = new Intent("com.android.music.musicservicecommand");

                            musicPlayerIntent.putExtra("command", "pause");

                            sendBroadcast(musicPlayerIntent);

                        }

  // 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);

References:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5129027/android-application-to-pause-resume-the-music-of-another-music-player-app