Play music in Apple Music App

[weda82]

Hello

I am looking for a way to specify an existing album from my Music app and start playing it.

Is this possible with Pythonista 3 on iOS 12?

I appreciate any ideas or solutions.

Thank you

[mikael]

@weda82, in docs for the objc_util module there is an example for accessing currently-playing song info. Probably you could expand from that with the help of Apple documentation.

[cvp]

@weda82 Perhaps something like this

from objc_util import *

def main():
    
    MPMediaPropertyPredicate = ObjCClass('MPMediaPropertyPredicate')
    MPMediaPropertyPredicate.predicateWithValue_forProperty_('Songs of Innocence', 'albumTitle')
    
    MPMediaQuery = ObjCClass('MPMediaQuery').alloc().initWithFilterPredicates_((MPMediaPropertyPredicate,))
    
    MPMusicPlayerController = ObjCClass('MPMusicPlayerController')
    player = MPMusicPlayerController.systemMusicPlayer()
    player.setQueueWithQuery_(MPMediaQuery)
    player.play()

main()

The script starts to play but I'm not able to select songs...
Just a starting point 😢

[weda82]

Thank you for your ideas and I am sorry for my late reply.

I tried the previous suggestion and I think the query is not working properly. If I iterate the query result it returns all my media items. But I also do not see the problem. As far as I understood the Apple documentation, it looks correct to my.

I tried a different approach:

from objc_util import *

def main():
    NSBundle.bundleWithPath_(
        '/System/Library/Frameworks/MediaPlayer.framework').load()

    matchingItem = ["928428096"] # StoreId of "Songs of innocence"
    MPMusicPlayerController = ObjCClass('MPMusicPlayerController')
    player = MPMusicPlayerController.systemMusicPlayer()
    player.setQueueWithStoreIDs(matchingItem)
    player.play()


main()

I got the StoreId from this web site:
https://linkmaker.itunes.apple.com/de-de

This is working, but not as comfortable as I was looking for.

[cvp]

@weda82 👍

[vincentyyl]

Thanks for sharing, but that seems not working anymore. I use the Tunelf Audio Converter to get Music songs down and the quality is still quite good.