---
title: MPMusicPlaybackState
framework: mediaplayer
role: symbol
role_heading: Enumeration
path: mediaplayer/mpmusicplaybackstate
---

# MPMusicPlaybackState

The music player playback state modes.

## Declaration

```swift
enum MPMusicPlaybackState
```

## Overview

Overview You determine a music player’s state by checking the playbackState property. Depending on the property’s value, you can update your application’s user interface or take other appropriate action.

## Topics

### Constants

- [MPMusicPlaybackState.stopped](mediaplayer/mpmusicplaybackstate/stopped.md)
- [MPMusicPlaybackState.playing](mediaplayer/mpmusicplaybackstate/playing.md)
- [MPMusicPlaybackState.paused](mediaplayer/mpmusicplaybackstate/paused.md)
- [MPMusicPlaybackState.interrupted](mediaplayer/mpmusicplaybackstate/interrupted.md)
- [MPMusicPlaybackState.seekingForward](mediaplayer/mpmusicplaybackstate/seekingforward.md)
- [MPMusicPlaybackState.seekingBackward](mediaplayer/mpmusicplaybackstate/seekingbackward.md)

### Initializers

- [init(rawValue:)](mediaplayer/mpmusicplaybackstate/init(rawvalue:).md)

## Relationships

### Conforms To

- [BitwiseCopyable](swift/bitwisecopyable.md)
- [Equatable](swift/equatable.md)
- [Hashable](swift/hashable.md)
- [RawRepresentable](swift/rawrepresentable.md)
- [Sendable](swift/sendable.md)
- [SendableMetatype](swift/sendablemetatype.md)

## See Also

### Managing playback mode and state

- [nowPlayingItem](mediaplayer/mpmusicplayercontroller/nowplayingitem.md)
- [indexOfNowPlayingItem](mediaplayer/mpmusicplayercontroller/indexofnowplayingitem.md)
- [playbackState](mediaplayer/mpmusicplayercontroller/playbackstate.md)
- [repeatMode](mediaplayer/mpmusicplayercontroller/repeatmode.md)
- [shuffleMode](mediaplayer/mpmusicplayercontroller/shufflemode.md)
- [MPMusicRepeatMode](mediaplayer/mpmusicrepeatmode.md)
- [MPMusicShuffleMode](mediaplayer/mpmusicshufflemode.md)
- [volume](mediaplayer/mpmusicplayercontroller/volume.md)