Question

I am programming to get the iPhone music library to display, the user selects a song, then this song title is reflected in a UILabel. If only it was that simple! I have tried getting the MPMediaItem into a NSString then the UILabel reflecting this, but i’m just getting (null) returned!

- (IBAction)showMediaPicker:(id)sender {
    MPMediaPickerController *mediaPicker = [[MPMediaPickerController alloc] initWithMediaTypes: MPMediaTypeAny];

    mediaPicker.delegate = self;
    //mediaPicker.allowsPickingMultipleItems = YES;
    mediaPicker.prompt = @"Select Your Favourite Song!";

    [self presentModalViewController:mediaPicker animated:YES];
}

- (void) mediaPicker: (MPMediaPickerController *) mediaPicker didPickMediaItems: (MPMediaItem *) mediaItemCollection {

    NSString *titleString = [mediaItemCollection valueForProperty:MPMediaItemPropertyTitle];
    titleLabel.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Title: %@",titleString];


    [self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated: YES];
}

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You’re trying to grab the title for a mediaItemCollection. You need to get the individual song title like this:

MPMediaItem *selectedSong = [mediaItemCollection items] objectAtIndex:0];
NSString *titleString = [selectedSong valueForProperty:MPMediaItemPropertyTitle];

Also by the way, you have the wrong delegate setup for your MPMediaPickerControllerDelegate:

It should be:

- (void)mediaPicker:(MPMediaPickerController *)mediaPicker didPickMediaItems:(MPMediaItemCollection *)mediaItemCollection

-You have the MPMediaItemCollection as just an MPMediaItem