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I'm querying the iPhone media library using MPMediaQuery and getting a list of all the artists and albums. How do I get the iTunes ID for each artists, album or song so I can uniquely identify it? Just searching by name can be not very accurate.

Shahar Nechmad
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The library https://github.com/gangverk/iTunesSearch has a getIdForArtist method.

Kevin Renskers
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You need to look up MPMediaItemPropertyPersistentID in the MPMediaItem documentation, it identifies each media item uniquely.

amergin
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  • But from what I understand it identify it just on the same device. I'm looking for a way to actually find the artist/song in iTunes (or other music services) in order to show additional info – Shahar Nechmad Jul 08 '11 at 04:21
  • I'd say you might be better off then looking at the database you want to query first and finding what they are looking for. A starting point might be... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_online_music_databases – amergin Jul 14 '11 at 21:19