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J.Vongehr
J.Vongehr

Reputation: 333

Last heard songs (Swift)

I want to fill a tableView with the last heard songs. With .nowPlayingItem I can get the very last song, but how can I get the songs heard before?

I think this question already has an answer at Retrieve list of songs ordered by last play time in iOS, but it is in Objective-C and I´m not able to translate it. Or is there an even better way to do it in Swift instead?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 313

Answers (2)

wottle
wottle

Reputation: 13619

You could do something like this:

    let startTime: NSTimeInterval = NSDate().timeIntervalSince1970
    let songsQuery: MPMediaQuery = MPMediaQuery.songsQuery()
    let songsArray: [MPMediaItem] = songsQuery.items!
    let songsNSArray : NSArray = NSArray(array: songsArray)

    let descriptor: NSSortDescriptor = NSSortDescriptor(key: MPMediaItemPropertyLastPlayedDate, ascending: false)
    let sortedResults: NSArray = songsNSArray.sortedArrayUsingDescriptors([descriptor])


    let finishTime: NSTimeInterval = NSDate().timeIntervalSince1970
    NSLog("Execution took %f seconds to return %i results.", finishTime - startTime, sortedResults.count)

The results would be stored in the sortedResults array

Upvotes: 3

Sandeep
Sandeep

Reputation: 21134

This is how you can do it in Swift,

let start = NSDate().timeIntervalSince1970

let songsQuery = MPMediaQuery.songsQuery()
if let songsArray = songsQuery.items {
    let sortedArray = songsArray.sort { item1, item2 in
        if let lastPlayedDateForItem1 = item1.lastPlayedDate, 
           let lastPlayedDateForItem2 = item2.lastPlayedDate {
            return lastPlayedDateForItem1.compare(lastPlayedDateForItem2) == .OrderedDescending
        }
        return false
    }
}

Upvotes: 3

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