---
title: playbackState
framework: mediaplayer
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: mediaplayer/mpmusicplayercontroller/playbackstate
---

# playbackState

The current playback state of the music player.

## Declaration

```swift
var playbackState: MPMusicPlaybackState { get }
```

## Discussion

Discussion If you configure a music player as a system music player, the playback state matches the playback state of the built-in Music app. This is true whether the Music app is using the device Music library or a home shared library. Note, however, that when the Music app is using a home shared library, the music player’s nowPlayingItem property is nil. For the available playback states, see MPMusicPlaybackState.

## See Also

### Managing playback mode and state

- [nowPlayingItem](mediaplayer/mpmusicplayercontroller/nowplayingitem.md)
- [indexOfNowPlayingItem](mediaplayer/mpmusicplayercontroller/indexofnowplayingitem.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)