Accessing information about currently playing song/media

Hi everybody,
I am wondering whether it is possible to retrieve Information about whatever is currently playing on the phone. I.e. the title of what's being played and the current position (in seconds).
I would like to develop an app that is able to use these information while anything is being played in the background, no matter if it is a piece of music, stream, video, audiobook, whatever.
Is this possible and if so, how?
Thanks and
cheers,
Christian.

Hello Christian,
This is quite a difficult and complex task. But you can take a look at the sample provided by the open-source music identification system
EchoPrint.
Abdulwahab Suleiman

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