Musickit JS and Apple Music Plugin

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I was looking to see what it would take to write an Apple Music plugin and I see lots of discussion that is years old at this point about how the API doesn’t really support it.

link removed because I’m only allowed 2 links in a post as a new user.

I see that there have been some changes to v3 of the music kit since those posts. I’m specifically talking about music kit on the web. I have more familiarity with python than javascript but taking a look at the base documentation it seems like it’s waiting for browser events and the like that I don’t think the plugin framework has support for at the moment.

https://js-cdn.music.apple.com/musickit/v3/docs/index.html?path=/story/introduction--page

I was poking around and found someone providing an npm for musickit but I think this is v1 and not v3 so it still may not be right for the needs but it does have the ability from javascript to play a song from apple music. So it at least sounds like it’s in the right space.

Has there been any other movement on the topic of an apple music plugin?

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Main discussion here, latest post 8 days ago…so not that old.

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According to the description, this library is a “wrapper for the Apple Music API written in NodeJS”. Despite calling itself musickit, does it actually utilize the Apple Musickit framework? I also don’t see anything in the documentation about playback support. Apple Music API (latest version is indeed still v1) and MusicKit are two different things…

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Gah thank you. I just took it on the name and that it was an npm package.

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It devolved into a discussion around bits of hardware and then got picked back up specifically to talk about lossless. patrickkfkan brought up some stuff about the npm package I listed as being irrelevant.