Is there a public way to force MPNowPlayingInfoCenter to show podcast controls?

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I would like Control Center (via MPNowPlayingInfoCenter) to show the forward 15 seconds / back 15 seconds controls that Apple shows with podcasts, like so:

podcast controls

The utter lack of documentation tells me that there's no obvious way to do this, but has anyone out there found any non-obvious way to force this without resorting to a private method?

I've already got my handling for the forward/back button set up to advance appropriately, I'd just like to use the more appropriate UI. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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In addition to the other answers, I found if I did not set the nowPlayingInfo on MPNowPlayingInfoCenter then the skip buttons did not appear but the default nextTrack and PreviousTrack buttons appeared. (plain fastforward and rewind appearing buttons) Be sure you are setting MPNowPlayingInfoCenter.defaultCenter().nowPlayingInfo at some point like below:

 var songInfo: NSMutableDictionary = [
        MPMediaItemPropertyTitle: "song title",
        MPMediaItemPropertyArtist: "artist ",
        MPNowPlayingInfoPropertyElapsedPlaybackTime: "0"
    ]
    MPNowPlayingInfoCenter.defaultCenter().nowPlayingInfo = songInfo as [NSObject : AnyObject]
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