Need to store a song from the iPod in NSUserDefaults. Nearly figured it out, need help getting there though?

Question

So this is what i have so far:

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

    [self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
    // Assign the selected item(s) to the music player and start playback.
self.selectedSong = mediaItemCollection;

    MPMediaItem *chosenItem = mediaItemCollection.representativeItem;
    NSLog(@"chosenItem: %@", chosenItem);
    persistentID = [chosenItem valueForProperty:MPMediaItemPropertyPersistentID]; //persistentID is an NSString.
    NSLog(@"persistentID: %@", persistentID);
    [prefs setValue:persistentID forKey:@"persistentIDKey"];
    [prefs synchronize];

}

But now i need to figure out what to put in the part of the script where i want it retrieved. This would be the standard way of doing that..

[self.musicPlayer stop];
[self.musicPlayer setNowPlayingItem:*ITEM HERE*];
[self.musicPlayer play];

But i'm unsure what to put in there. Persistent ID doesn't work. I can also get any other properties from the song using my above method, not just persistentID. So if i require any others, then i can get those too. Help with this?

Answer 1

You should be able to do something like this:

MPMediaPropertyPredicate * predicate = [MPMediaPropertyPredicate predicateWithValue:storedPID forProperty: MPMediaItemPropertyPersistentID];
MPMediaQuery * query = [[MPMediaQuery alloc] initWithFilterPredicates: [NSSet setWithObject: predicate]];
[self.musicPlayer setQueueWithQuery:query];
[self.musicPlayer play];
[query release];

Answer 2

Just be aware, as per Apple's docs:

The value of the MPMediaItemPropertyPersistentID identifier persists across application launches and across syncs that do not change the sync status of the media item.The value is not guaranteed to persist across a sync/unsync/sync cycle.

I have never come across an instance where this is has been an issue, however this has been the case since MPMediaItemPropertyPersistentID was introduced in iOS 3.0