Apple Music search with Alfred

[gingerbeardman]

Yes, you're missing folders to store the thumbnail images.

 

See my previous message.

[gandalfsaxe]

1 minute ago, gingerbeardman said:

Yes, you're missing folders to store the thumbnail images.

 

See my previous message.

 

Fair enough 😉

 

I made the folder and it works now. Only caveat is that it takes a long time (30 - 120 s) every time I search for a new song, so it only really works with songs you've already searched for in practice. I'm just thinking, is it then really worth it to cache all those thumbnails? Why not just do like with artist, no thumbnails? 1) It's instant and 2) Works out of the box without need to manually create a new folder in `~/Library/Cache`

[gingerbeardman]

I've uploaded a new version, 2.2

 

This uses the modern folder locations for Alfred (not the old Alfred 3 folders)

 

https://www.gingerbeardman.com/alfred/

 

That should be easier for everybody.

[gingerbeardman]

Something is wrong if it is taking 30 to 120 seconds for you. 

 

For me it generally (depending on the complexity of the query) takes a few seconds, and one of those is a wait before we actually begin the query.

 

That said, things (Apple's server?) never used to be this slow, so I think it's good to have faster options.

 

So I've uploaded 2.3 which defaults to skipping thumbail images.

https://www.gingerbeardman.com/alfred/

 

The keywords for song/album with thumbail images are still there, but renamed as isong and ialbum, for people who wish to use them.

 

Thanks for the suggestion!

 

 

Edited March 18, 2021 by gingerbeardman

[gandalfsaxe]

21 minutes ago, gingerbeardman said:

Something is wrong if it is taking 30 to 120 seconds for you. 

 

For me it generally (depending on the complexity of the query) takes a few seconds, and one of those is a wait before we actually begin the query.

 

That said, things (Apple's server?) never used to be this slow, so I think it's good to have faster options.

 

So I've uploaded 2.3 which defaults to skipping thumbail images.

https://www.gingerbeardman.com/alfred/

 

The keywords for song/album with thumbail images are still there, but renamed as isong and ialbum, for people who wish to use them.

 

Thanks for the suggestion!

 

 

Ah I was on VPN before, now it's only 10s, and without thumbnails 3s. I still prefer without thumbnails though. Thanks

[gingerbeardman]

My pleasure.

[zcjava]

AppleMusicController

[zcjava]

see https://github.com/zcjava/AppleMusicController

I hope to help u

[MandyB]

Just wondering if this will work on Alfred 4? I will literally cry with delight if i could get this happening - you are amazing @gingerbeardman 

[gingerbeardman]

5 hours ago, MandyB said:

 

Just wondering if this will work on Alfred 4?

It does, I use it with Alfred 4 every day. 

 

What made you think that it didn't work with Alfred 4?

 

 

Edited February 10, 2022 by gingerbeardman

[MandyB]

On 2/11/2022 at 3:34 AM, gingerbeardman said:

It does, I use it with Alfred 4 every day. 

 

What made you think that it didn't work with Alfred 4?

 

 

 

Probably just because I cant get it working, but I have zero clue.... will keep trying, thanks again

[gingerbeardman]

Version 2.4

- fixes generic search (example highlighted below)

- fixes mu command
https://www.gingerbeardman.com/alfred/

 

Edited February 26, 2022 by gingerbeardman

[sqll]

Hi,

just a small question from a noob.
I have some trouble to run your workflow because "python command not found".
I use homebrew to handling those kind of software and I try to replace your script with the interpreter python3 and it didn't work. 
Can I ask which version of python is required to run your workflow ?
Please do not hesitate to give me some documentation to read to improve myself.

 

Kr,

Edited March 27, 2022 by sqll

[gingerbeardman]

Which version of the workflow are you using? Which link was it downloaded from?

[sqll]

I use 2.4 normally according to the version described in the Alfred workflow

[gingerbeardman]

OK thanks. I'll check python and fix when I get home. latest macOS 12.3 removed python 2. 

Edited March 27, 2022 by gingerbeardman

[sqll]

No problem, this is not a straight forward migration it seems, I tried with Python3.
Have a nice day and thanks for your help.

[gingerbeardman]

The easiest way to get this working again is reinstall python2 as here:

https://www.alfredapp.com/help/kb/python-2-monterey/

 

And then change all script filters in the workflow to call /usr/local/bin/python rather than just python. I just did that and it's now working for me.

 

Ideally, I would rewrite it in Python3 but I probably won't find the time in between paid work. I did try and got quite far but some arcane errors halted my progress. It's probably due a 10 year anniversary rebuild from scratch.

 

 

Edited March 28, 2022 by gingerbeardman

[vitor]

On 3/28/2022 at 1:34 PM, gingerbeardman said:

And then change all script filters in the workflow to call /usr/local/bin/python rather than just python.

 

That won’t work for people on Apple Silicon. The more versatile option is to prepend export PATH="/opt/homebrew/bin:/usr/local/bin:${PATH}" and then call python (no full path). Like so (linked removed because fix was added officially).

Edited March 29, 2022 by vitor

[gingerbeardman]

Thanks! BTW your "like so" link leads to an unexpected location.

[vitor]

1 minute ago, gingerbeardman said:

BTW your "like so" link

 

Fixed. Thank you.

[gingerbeardman]

Version 2.5

- changes to keep working with python2

https://www.gingerbeardman.com/alfred/

 

[raphaeladidas]

I installed Python 2 to get this workflow to work, but when I select a search result it just brings the Music app up front with whatever page is currently open (my library, almost always).