---
title: startItem
framework: mediaplayer
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: mediaplayer/mpmusicplayermediaitemqueuedescriptor/startitem
---

# startItem

Designates the media item to play first.

## Declaration

```swift
var startItem: MPMediaItem? { get set }
```

## Discussion

Discussion When this property isn’t set, the value is nil and the first item in the queue is the first item to play.

## See Also

### Media item queue descriptor properties

- [itemCollection](mediaplayer/mpmusicplayermediaitemqueuedescriptor/itemcollection.md)
- [query](mediaplayer/mpmusicplayermediaitemqueuedescriptor/query.md)