---
title: indexOfNowPlayingItem
framework: mediaplayer
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: mediaplayer/mpmusicplayercontroller/indexofnowplayingitem
---

# indexOfNowPlayingItem

The index of the now playing item in the current playback queue.

## Declaration

```swift
var indexOfNowPlayingItem: Int { get }
```

## Discussion

Discussion This property’s value is NSNotFound if the index isn’t valid, for example, if the playback queue is empty.

## See Also

### Managing playback mode and state

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