rusinov Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 (edited) I use Alfred for searching in iTunes Store but I can't find a custom search for Apple Music catalog, any tips? Edited December 27, 2015 by rusinov Link to comment
gingerbeardman Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 (edited) I'm working on this, but it's more complicated that App Store or Mac App Store search. Because you can search for Artist, Song, Album, etc. See here: https://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/resources/documentation/itunes-store-web-service-search-api.html Edited January 6, 2016 by gingerbeardman Link to comment
gingerbeardman Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 (edited) Here's what I have so far: https://www.gingerbeardman.com/alfred/ it prefers songs and music videos in results (a version searching only for albums would be easy enough to create) however, right now it opens the result in you browser as i can't figure out the URL scheme to open iTunes to that song or collection. If anybody figures it out, feel free to let me know and I'll host this on github. Edited August 30, 2019 by gingerbeardman new download link Link to comment
typkrft Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31194155/apple-music-url-schemeI'm not sure if this helps. Link to comment
gingerbeardman Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 (edited) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31194155/apple-music-url-schemeI'm not sure if this helps. Yeah, I found that and others but I can't get any links to open their respective pages in iTunes. If you can find an iTunes link starting with http:// that you can change to start with itms:// that when entered in Safari opens iTunes to a specific page, let me know! eg. David Bowie "Blackstar" http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/blackstar/id1059043043 Becomes itms://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/blackstar/id1059043043 Which opens iTunes, but not to the correct tab. Edited January 14, 2016 by gingerbeardman Link to comment
gingerbeardman Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 (edited) OK, I have figured it out for iTunes Search. https://www.gingerbeardman.com/alfred/ There seems to be a bug in iTunes right now that will not allow me to do an Apple Music search. Will continue to investigate! Edited August 30, 2019 by gingerbeardman new download link Link to comment
mlondon Posted September 15, 2017 Share Posted September 15, 2017 Wondering if gingerbeardman or anyone else has made progress on a workflow which can do an Apple Music Search? Thank you.... Link to comment
gandalfsaxe Posted February 21, 2018 Share Posted February 21, 2018 @gingerbeardman The links are no longer working. Can you repost? Link to comment
gingerbeardman Posted February 21, 2018 Share Posted February 21, 2018 I've updated the download for the iTunes Music Search, though it stopped working and I've not revisited it. Link to comment
gingerbeardman Posted February 21, 2018 Share Posted February 21, 2018 (edited) OK, I fixed my workflows for Alfred 3. Search Mac App Store Search App Store Search iTunes Music Store NEW April 2018 Search Apple Music NEW August 2019 Search by Artist in both Apple Music and iTunes Music Store Here they are: https://www.gingerbeardman.com/alfred/ Edited August 30, 2019 by gingerbeardman gandalfsaxe 1 Link to comment
mlondon Posted February 21, 2018 Share Posted February 21, 2018 Thank you Gingerbeardman. A few things: - The Search iTunes Music Store take me to the UK store. Is it possible to switch to US store? - More importantly for me, I would like to be able to search Apple Music, not the iTunes Music Store. Do you have plans to develop such a workflow? Thanks Matthew Link to comment
gingerbeardman Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 (edited) On 21/02/2018 at 7:58 PM, mlondon said: Thank you Gingerbeardman. A few things: - The Search iTunes Music Store take me to the UK store. Is it possible to switch to US store? - More importantly for me, I would like to be able to search Apple Music, not the iTunes Music Store. Do you have plans to develop such a workflow? Thanks Matthew Sure, the ability to edit the store region is already in the script. 1. Open Alfred 2. Find workflow 3. Right click workflow 4. "Open in Finder" 5. open files song.py and album.py 6. change line COUNTRY = u'GB' to COUNTRY = u'US' Edited April 16, 2018 by gingerbeardman Link to comment
gandalfsaxe Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 1 minute ago, gingerbeardman said: Sure, the ability to edit the store region is already in the script. 1. Open Alfred 2. Find workflow 3. Right click workflow 4. "Open in Finder" 5. open files song.py and album.py 6. change line COUNTRY = u'GB' to COUNTRY = u'US' And regarding searching Apple Music instead of iTunes Store? Link to comment
gingerbeardman Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 (edited) 4 hours ago, gandalfsaxe said: And regarding searching Apple Music instead of iTunes Store? Sorry I have not had time to look into that. Edited April 16, 2018 by gingerbeardman Link to comment
gingerbeardman Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 (edited) On 16/04/2018 at 8:00 PM, gandalfsaxe said: And regarding searching Apple Music instead of iTunes Store? OK @gandalfsaxe a bit more digging and it was possible to do this with minor changes—I just had to find the correct documentation. Let me know if you need to search for anything other than song and album. See above for updated download link! Edited April 17, 2018 by gingerbeardman Link to comment
MandyB Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 On 4/17/2018 at 2:58 AM, gingerbeardman said: Sure, the ability to edit the store region is already in the script. 1. Open Alfred 2. Find workflow 3. Right click workflow 4. "Open in Finder" 5. open files song.py and album.py 6. change line COUNTRY = u'GB' to COUNTRY = u'US' Would someone be willing to help a newbie? I have no idea... none. But I desparately want a workflow that will search the australian itunes store so that when i am DJing if I dont have a song, its easy to download it from the store (not apple music). Is there anyone that can help? Link to comment
wendellpbloyd Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 On 2/19/2019 at 6:42 AM, MandyB said: Would someone be willing to help a newbie? I have no idea... none. But I desparately want a workflow that will search the australian itunes store so that when i am DJing if I dont have a song, its easy to download it from the store (not apple music). Is there anyone that can help? what exactly is the problem? Link to comment
gingerbeardman Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 On 2/19/2019 at 5:42 AM, MandyB said: Would someone be willing to help a newbie? I have no idea... none. But I desparately want a workflow that will search the australian itunes store so that when i am DJing if I dont have a song, its easy to download it from the store (not apple music). Is there anyone that can help? Which of the 6 steps do you get stuck at? Link to comment
gandalfsaxe Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 On 4/17/2018 at 12:02 AM, gingerbeardman said: OK @gandalfsaxe a bit more digging and it was possible to do this with minor changes—I just had to find the correct documentation. Let me know if you need to search for anything other than song and album. See above for updated download link! Thanks! What I actually wanted is a little simpler: Instead of a built-in search that shows up in Alfred, I just want to search from alfred, but then redirected to the application (for Mac AppStore and iTunes for Apple Music). Like you can do with spotify using "spotify:search:{query}". You know how to do this? Link to comment
gingerbeardman Posted March 24, 2019 Share Posted March 24, 2019 (edited) On 3/23/2019 at 9:24 PM, gandalfsaxe said: Thanks! What I actually wanted is a little simpler: Instead of a built-in search that shows up in Alfred, I just want to search from alfred, but then redirected to the application (for Mac AppStore and iTunes for Apple Music). Like you can do with spotify using "spotify:search:{query}". You know how to do this? You may be able to bypass Alfred completely using iTunes URL Scheme, but I cannot help you with that. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31194155/apple-music-url-scheme Edited August 30, 2019 by gingerbeardman Link to comment
Lawrenxe Posted April 7, 2019 Share Posted April 7, 2019 On 2/22/2018 at 2:38 AM, gingerbeardman said: OK, I fixed my workflows for Alfred 3. Search Mac App Store Search App Store Search iTunes Music Store NEW April 2018 Search Apple Music Here they are: http://workupload.com/archive/hfKc87d Hi, as I am currently in Australia, I've set the COUNTRY as u'AU' following your suggestions. However there's always an annoying delay before the exact song popping up. Is there anything I can do with it? Link to comment
Ehler Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 On 4/7/2019 at 10:19 AM, Lawrenxe said: Hi, as I am currently in Australia, I've set the COUNTRY as u'AU' following your suggestions. However there's always an annoying delay before the exact song popping up. Is there anything I can do with it? I think it's just a bit slow by nature. While it might feel slower than most Alfred workflows, compare it to how sluggish iTunes normally is for pulling up Apple Music results. Link to comment
Briscoe Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 On 2/21/2018 at 10:38 AM, gingerbeardman said: OK, I fixed my workflows for Alfred 3. Search Mac App Store Search App Store Search iTunes Music Store NEW April 2018 Search Apple Music Here they are: http://workupload.com/archive/hfKc87d Is it possible to Search the iTunes Music Store by Artist? It appears the only options are search by Album and Song, but would love to also search by Artist. Any help is much appreciated, thanks Link to comment
gingerbeardman Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 (edited) On 8/20/2019 at 9:27 PM, Adrian00 said: Is it possible to Search the iTunes Music Store by Artist? It appears the only options are search by Album and Song, but would love to also search by Artist. Any help is much appreciated, thanks Sure thing! I've added Artist search to both iTunes Music Store and Apple Music workflows. Downloads: https://www.gingerbeardman.com/alfred/ If you find this useful, please leave a donation via the button on my site. Support open-source software ❤️ cheers, matt Edited August 30, 2019 by gingerbeardman Briscoe 1 Link to comment
Briscoe Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 Thank you - works perfectly! Link to comment
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