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# startItem

Designates the media item to play first.

```
var startItem: MPMediaItem? { get set }
```

## Discussion

When this property isn’t set, the value is <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/ObjectiveC/nil-227m0> and the first item in the queue is the first item to play.

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