How do you check if music is playing by using a broadcast receiver?
You don’t need a broadcast receiver for this – AudioManager is your friend: AudioManager.isMusicActive() does the job you want, have a closer look here for details: AudioManager here is an example: AudioManager manager = (AudioManager)this.getSystemService(Context.AUDIO_SERVICE); if(manager.isMusicActive()) { // do something – or do it not }