MPMediaItem | iCloud or DRM Protected

Question

Is there any way I can check if a mediaItem fetched from iPhone's music library represents a iCloud Item?

I know MPMediaItemPropertyAssetURL property of a media Item is nil for both DRM Protected media as well as for iCloud item, but I have no idea how to determine if the item is DRM protected or it is available on cloud.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Starting in iOS 6, you can check if the item is in iCloud with the following property MPMediaItemPropertyIsCloudItem

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/mediaplayer/mpmediaitempropertyisclouditem?language=objc

Since iOS 9.2, you can check MPMediaItemPropertyHasProtectedAsset for DRM. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/mediaplayer/mpmediaitempropertyhasprotectedasset?language=objc

Answer 2

I can't say with absolute certainty that this is the best way to do it, but in my app I just test the MPMediaItem's MPMediaItemPropertyAssetURL property to see if it's nil:

if ([(MPMediaItem*)item valueForProperty:MPMediaItemPropertyAssetURL] == nil) {
  // it's in the cloud
}