The multimedia player service, mm-player, allows applications to browse and play mediastore content. Through mm-player, applications can obtain a list of available media sources, explore the filesytems and read media metadata from those sources, and play tracks.
The mm-player service is a media browsing and playback engine that uses lower-level system components to help it execute media commands sent by client applications. The system components allow mm-player to navigate the filesystems of mediastores, read metadata from media files, and manage media flows during playback.
The mm-player service can access many types of media sources: