Last heard songs (Swift)

Question

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?

Answer 1

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