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# failedToPlayToEndTimeNotification

A notification that the system posts when a player item fails to play to its end time.

```
class let failedToPlayToEndTimeNotification: NSNotification.Name
```

## Discussion

The notification’s object is the player item that finished playing.

> Important:
> The system may post this notification on a thread other than the one you use to register the observer.

## Topics

### Error keys

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

The key to retrieve the error object from the notification’s user information dictionary.


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