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# AVMetricPlayerItemRateChangeEvent

An event that represents when the playback rate changes.

```
class AVMetricPlayerItemRateChangeEvent
```

## Topics

### Inspecting the event

[`previousRate`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVMetricPlayerItemRateChangeEvent/previousRate)

[`rate`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVMetricPlayerItemRateChangeEvent/rate)

[`variant`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVMetricPlayerItemRateChangeEvent/variant)

## Relationships

### Conforms To

[`Equatable`](/documentation/Swift/Equatable)

[`CustomDebugStringConvertible`](/documentation/Swift/CustomDebugStringConvertible)

[`NSObjectProtocol`](/documentation/ObjectiveC/NSObjectProtocol)

[`NSSecureCoding`](/documentation/Foundation/NSSecureCoding)

[`SendableMetatype`](/documentation/Swift/SendableMetatype)

[`NSCoding`](/documentation/Foundation/NSCoding)

[`CVarArg`](/documentation/Swift/CVarArg)

[`CustomStringConvertible`](/documentation/Swift/CustomStringConvertible)

[`Hashable`](/documentation/Swift/Hashable)

[`Sendable`](/documentation/Swift/Sendable)

### Inherited By

[`AVMetricPlayerItemStallEvent`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVMetricPlayerItemStallEvent)

[`AVMetricPlayerItemSeekDidCompleteEvent`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVMetricPlayerItemSeekDidCompleteEvent)

[`AVMetricPlayerItemSeekEvent`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVMetricPlayerItemSeekEvent)

### Inherits From

[`AVMetricEvent`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVMetricEvent)

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