I want to use the Shortcuts app on macOS Monterey to modify M4A/AAC audio file metadata for files that I have ripped from CD to my local Music app library. How can I use a regular expression on track titles to replace text that matches a certain regex pattern? I have already written the regex, I just need help with the Shortcuts app. I've started my shortcut with a "Find Music" action connected to a "Repeat with Each" loop action. Within the loop, I use a "Get Details of Music" action to get the title, which is passed to a "Replace Text" action using my regex. I just don't know how to write the correct new title into the music file's title/name metadata field. I tried a "Rename File" action with type "iTunes media" to try to set the "Title" field, but the field wasn't updated either in the Music app or in the M4A/AAC file itself. I couldn't find any other actions that seemed like they might be able to modify the field. I'd prefer a solution that goes through the Music app / its APIs, rather than directly modifying the M4A on the file system, because the latter would force me to have the Music app scan for changed files after the files we're modified.

I'm trying to create an app that uses the Apple Music API and while I can fetch playlists as I desire when selecting a song from a playlist the music does not play. First I'm getting the playlists, then showing those playlists on a list in a view. Then pass that "song" which is a Track type into a PlayBackView. There are several UI components in that view but I want to boil it down here for simplicity's sake to better understand my problem. struct PlayBackView: View { @State private var playState: PlayState = .pause private let player = ApplicationMusicPlayer.shared @State var song: Track private var isPlaying: Bool { return (player.state.playbackStatus == .playing) } var body: some View { VStack { AsyncImage(url: song.artwork?.url(width: 100, height: 100)) { image in image .resizable() .frame(maxWidth: .infinity) .aspectRatio(1.0, contentMode: .fit) } placeholder: { Image(systemName: "music.note") .resizable() .frame(width: 100, height: 100) } // Song Title Text(song.title) .font(.title) // Album Title Text(song.albumTitle ?? "Album Title Not Found") .font(.caption) // Play/Pause Button Button(action: { handlePlayButton() }, label: { Image(systemName: playPauseImage) }) .padding() .foregroundStyle(.white) .font(.largeTitle) Image(systemName: airplayImage) .font(ifDeviceIsConnected ? .largeTitle : .title3) } .padding() } private func handlePlayButton() { Task { if isPlaying { player.pause() playState = .play } else { playState = .pause await playTrack(song: song) } } } @MainActor public func playTrack(song: Track) async { do { try await player.play() playState = .play } catch { print(error.localizedDescription) } } } These are the errors I'm seeing printing in the console in Xcode prepareToPlay failed [no target descriptor] The operation couldn’t be completed. (MPMusicPlayerControllerErrorDomain error 1.) ASYNC-WATCHDOG-1: Attempting to wake up the remote process ASYNC-WATCHDOG-2: Tearing down connection

Hi, I want to embed song previews in my app when a user shares an apple music link. While using MusikKit getting previews seems to require access to the iCloud Music library, even though I‘m not shure how this is related, since I‘m not acessing user data. Is there any possibility that makes the preview work while neither requiring access to the users library nor a signed jwt?

I updated to iOS 18.4 Beta for Developers today on my iPhone 14 Pro Max. It is now acting weird. At first my Apple Music would stop playing whenever I touched my phone. Now it is only doing it whenever I unlock the phone. I have tried restarting the phone. Turning Bluetooth on/off. Tried different Bluetooth connected device. Played music that is download and then streamed. I turned WiFi off and back on again. I am at a loss. I have been researching tips and tricks for hours. Am I truly only left with formatting my phone at this point so it resets to iOS 17?

I wanted a platform that combined apple music and podcasts, so I built one. I'm looking for beta testers currently, please reply if you're interested.

Hello, We've a music app reading MPMediaItem. We got items using MPMediaQuery. But we realized that some downloaded tracks from Apple Music were fetched too. Not all downloaded track but only those who were played recently. Of course, since these tracks are protected with DRM we can't play them in our player. It's weird to get them in our query because we added predicate in order to dont fetch protected asset and iCloud item MPMediaPropertyPredicate(value: false, forProperty: MPMediaItemPropertyHasProtectedAsset) MPMediaPropertyPredicate(value: false, forProperty: MPMediaItemPropertyIsCloudItem) To be sure, we made a second check on each item we've fetched extension MPMediaItem { public func isValid() -> Bool { return self.assetURL != nil && !self.isCloudItem && !self.hasProtectedAsset } } But we still get these items. Their hasProtectedAsset attribute always return false. I dont know if it's a bug, but since we can't detect this items as Apple Music downloaded track, we can't either: filter them to not add them in our application library OR switch on a MPMusicPlayerController.applicationMusicPlayer to allow the user to play them

In SwiftUI there is a built-in component for displaying album artworks called Artwork but there is no equivalent for UIKit. My current approach is to use the .url() method to read image's URL and download the image or read it from the disk but the performance is much worse than it was previously with MPMediaItem's artworkImage method. let artworkQueue = DispatchQueue( label: "MusicKit-ArtworkQueue", qos: .default, attributes: .concurrent ) let artworkSemaphore = DispatchSemaphore(value: 5) extension Song { func artworkImage(for size: CGSize, completion: @escaping (UIImage?) -> Void) { artworkQueue.async { artworkSemaphore.wait() defer { artworkSemaphore.signal() } let imageURL = artwork?.url( width: Int(size.width), height: Int(size.height) ) // I hate doing this as it might very well break in the future guard let imageURL, imageURL.scheme == "musicKit" else { return completion(nil) } guard let imageData = try? Data(contentsOf: imageURL), let image = UIImage(data: imageData) else { return completion(nil) } completion(image) } } } I really dislike this approach because it feels hacky but somewhat works. You might ask what's the semaphore for? Well, without it I could notice that MusicKit was choking and after reading too many artworks at once. Can someone from Apple please provide us with an example on how to use MusicKit with UIKit properly? Ideally (IMO) we would have a method defined on Song and other MusicKit structures that returns the image for us, just like MPMediaItem had the .artwork() method. It would make our lives so much easier.

Hi, is there a way to display the animated cover art in an app? Not every album has a cover art but for the ones that have one I would like to display them instead of the artwork. Thank you :)

I often find when doing basic actions in MusicKit it is incredibly slow compared to Apple's Music App. I've tried different versions, devices, networks, Apple's sample code, it all throughout the last several years, and it is all the same. Does anyone else have this issue?

[posted January 30, 2024] Earlier this month, Apple Classical appeared as an app in CarPlay. Hallelujah!!! Three days later it disappeared after another update, apparently because all it did when activated via CarPlay was crash. OK, it was an oopsie (I get it. I spent 30 years in IT, and, well, it happens. They’re called “undocumented features”). Thing is: Apple hasn’t breathed a word about this event at all. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zippo. Zilch. There’s a huge pent-up audience for this app in CarPlay. Is it coming? Please? Oh please oh please oh please?

Hello, I am wondering how one can play music videos (with the actual video playing) with the ApplicationMusicPlayer using MusicKit for Swift? There is not much documentation on this, so any help would be appreciated.