Help with expanding on the Extra Credit for Collections: Create a Song Dictionary and Print it out Neatly.

Question

I know that there are different approaches to this challenge, and this is mine, some feedback would be nice:
```swift
let firstSong = ["title": "Accept Yourself", "Artist": "The Smiths", "Album": "Complete (Remastered)"]
let secondSong = ["title": "Aeroplane Flies High", "Artist": "Smashing Pumpkins", "Album": "Greatest Hits" ]
let thirdSong = ["title": "Ain't No Sunshine", "Artist": "Fats Domino", "Album": "The Rolling Stone" ]
println("Songs")
println(firstSong["title"])
println(firstSong["Artist"])
println(firstSong["Album"])
```
As you can see, I also wanted to print the list neatly, in the console I get "Optional" as a return for each element, how can I omit that? Essentially I would love some feedback on my song dictionary (Is it good? Efficient? Is there a better alternative?) and some feedback on the println function for it would be great too. 
Thank you!

J.D. Sandifer · Accepted Answer

Your song dictionaries look great. No problems there.
However, it looks like you're missing an important element from the original assignment...the array to hold the songs. The array is important to reach some semblance of efficiency - which it looks like you're trying to achieve with your expansion.
Here's an example:
```swift
//my code goes after your initial definitions
let songLibrary = [firstSong, secondSong, thirdSong]
println("Songs")   // you already had this as your fist line so I kept it here
for songNum in songLibrary {   // this loop replaces your individual println statements
     println()   // an extra line for neatness
     println(songNum["title"])
     println(songNum["Artist"])
     println(songNum["Album"])
}
```
Output should look like this (followed by songs two and three):
```swift
Songs
Accept Yourself
The Smiths
Complete (Remastered)
```
The optional part of the console output is something that is covered farther on in the iOS track. Keep going to figure out what's up with that...

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Help with expanding on the Extra Credit for Collections: Create a Song Dictionary and Print it out Neatly.

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J.D. Sandifer

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Osiris Maldonado

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