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MPMediaPlaylist

A playable collection of related media items.

Declaration

class MPMediaPlaylist

Overview

Each playlist has a name, a set of attributes, and a unique identifier that persists across application launches.

Users configure playlists using iTunes or by creating a playlist on the device. Playlists are read-only to your iOS app. To obtain playlists, configure a media query that’s grouped by playlist. Each returned media item collection is a media playlist. The following code snippet illustrates this by logging playlist and song names to the Xcode debugger console:

MPMediaPropertyPredicate and MPMediaQuery describe the API for building a media query. MPMediaEntity describes the methods for querying media playlist property values.

Topics

Adding media items to a playlist

Retrieving information about a playlist

Property keys

See Also

Media items and playlists