Media Player MPMediaItemArtwork Memory Leak

Question

Hello,

I seem to be getting a memory leak when getting the album artwork for the currently playing item with this code:

MPMediaItem *playingItem = self.musicPlayer.nowPlayingItem;
MPMediaItemArtwork *artwork = [playingItem valueForProperty:MPMediaItemPropertyArtwork];

I have tried [artwork release]; even though I didn't alloc artwork but I am still getting a leak. Any Ideas?

Thanks.

Answer 1

I'm fairly certain that the MPMediaItemArtwork is causing the leak. Instruments listed the leaked objects as MPMediaItemArtwork and MPMediaItemArtworkInternal.

For what it's worth, [artwork release] seems to decrease the leaking and removing the artwork code completely kills the leak.