---
title: location
framework: ituneslibrary
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: ituneslibrary/itlibmediaitem/location
---

# location

The location of the media item on disk.

## Declaration

```swift
var location: URL? { get }
```

## Discussion

Discussion If the location of the media item isn’t available, this property returns ITLibMediaItemLocationType.unknown. This method returns URLs that are outside of the default sandbox. To use the iTunesLibrary framework, a sandboxed app must have the com.apple.security.assets.music.read-write or com.apple.security.assets.music.read-only entitlement. To access the media item file in a sandboxed app, call startAccessingSecurityScopedResource(). Listing 1. #import <iTunesLibrary/ITLibrary.h> #import <iTunesLibrary/ITLibMediaItem.h>   // Initialize     NSError * error = nil;     ITLibrary* library =         [[ITLibrary alloc] initWithAPIVersion:@"1.0" error:&error];     if (library)     {         // Get first media item in the library         NSArray * mediaItems = library.allMediaItems;         if (mediaItems.count > 0)         {             // Get the location (URL) of the first media item and             // prepare it for file read/write access.             ITLibMediaItem * mediaItem =                 (ITLibMediaItem*)[mediaItems objectAtIndex:0];             NSURL * mediaItemLocation = mediaItem.location;               if (mediaItemLocation &&                 [mediaItemLocation startAccessingSecurityScopedResource])             {                 // mediaItemLocation can be now used to read/write                 // the media file                 [mediaItemLocation stopAccessingSecurityScopedResource];             }         }     } For more information about using URLs that are outside the default sandbox from a sandboxed app, see Security-Scoped Bookmarks and Persistent Resource Access. In nonsandboxed apps, you can use the returned location URL to access the media item file directly.

## See Also

### Getting Media Item Info

- [title](ituneslibrary/itlibmediaitem/title.md)
- [sortTitle](ituneslibrary/itlibmediaitem/sorttitle.md)
- [artist](ituneslibrary/itlibmediaitem/artist.md)
- [composer](ituneslibrary/itlibmediaitem/composer.md)
- [sortComposer](ituneslibrary/itlibmediaitem/sortcomposer.md)
- [rating](ituneslibrary/itlibmediaitem/rating.md)
- [isRatingComputed](ituneslibrary/itlibmediaitem/isratingcomputed.md)
- [startTime](ituneslibrary/itlibmediaitem/starttime.md)
- [stopTime](ituneslibrary/itlibmediaitem/stoptime.md)
- [album](ituneslibrary/itlibmediaitem/album.md)
- [genre](ituneslibrary/itlibmediaitem/genre.md)
- [kind](ituneslibrary/itlibmediaitem/kind.md)
- [mediaKind](ituneslibrary/itlibmediaitem/mediakind.md)
- [totalTime](ituneslibrary/itlibmediaitem/totaltime.md)
- [trackNumber](ituneslibrary/itlibmediaitem/tracknumber.md)