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iPhone get all albums/artists

does any of you have example code (or a link to it) of how to retrieve all music albums or artist from the iPod media library?

Thanks in advance!

Solution

  • Use a MPMediaQuery:

    MPMediaQuery *allAlbumsQuery = [MPMediaQuery albumsQuery];
NSArray *allAlbumsArray = [allAlbumsQuery collections];

    The allItems array does now contain MPMediaItemCollections, grouping is done by album. Now you can walk through the arrays. 

    for (MPMediaItemCollection *collection in allAlbumsArray) {
    MPMediaItem *item = [collection representativeItem];
}