MPMediaQuery search for Artists, Albums, and Songs

Question

How can I search the iPod Library in the same manner as the iOS Music application? I want to make general queries that return results for each Artists, Albums, and Songs. Fo

Answer 1

Swift 3+ solution for filtering items after running the query, similar to Mohammed Habib's answer:

let searchString = “string to search”
let query = MPMediaQuery()

let filteredItems = query.items?.filter { item -> Bool in
    let properties = [item.songTitle,
                      item.artist,
                      item.albumTitle]

    let lowercasedProperties = properties.compactMap { $0.lowercased() }

    return lowercasedProperties.contains(searchString.lowercased())
}

print(filteredItems ?? [])