---
title: MPNowPlayingPlaybackState
framework: mediaplayer
role: symbol
role_heading: Enumeration
path: mediaplayer/mpnowplayingplaybackstate
---

# MPNowPlayingPlaybackState

The playback state of the app.

## Declaration

```swift
enum MPNowPlayingPlaybackState
```

## Topics

### Playback states

- [MPNowPlayingPlaybackState.unknown](mediaplayer/mpnowplayingplaybackstate/unknown.md)
- [MPNowPlayingPlaybackState.playing](mediaplayer/mpnowplayingplaybackstate/playing.md)
- [MPNowPlayingPlaybackState.paused](mediaplayer/mpnowplayingplaybackstate/paused.md)
- [MPNowPlayingPlaybackState.stopped](mediaplayer/mpnowplayingplaybackstate/stopped.md)
- [MPNowPlayingPlaybackState.interrupted](mediaplayer/mpnowplayingplaybackstate/interrupted.md)

### Initializers

- [init(rawValue:)](mediaplayer/mpnowplayingplaybackstate/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

### Setting the playback state in macOS

- [playbackState](mediaplayer/mpnowplayinginfocenter/playbackstate.md)