Apple Music Custom Integration

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The spiritual successor to the legacy iTunes integration — rebuilt from the ground up for Apple Music on macOS, with instant push updates, a full media browser, AirPlay control, album art, and a seekable progress bar. Track changes reflect in under a second via macOS distributed notifications and SSE — no polling delay.

Features

  • Browse and play playlists, artists, and albums from the HA media browser
  • Play an album or artist as a queue — next/previous stays within the selection
  • AirPlay speaker selection and per-device volume
  • Shuffle, repeat, seek, and volume — all with instant UI feedback
  • One-command install on macOS

:link: GitHub - Hackashaq666/apple-music-custom: Apple Music Integration and companion macOS Server · GitHub

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Is this a new update from what was available from you before?

For those who use Apple Music centrally on a Mac to serve music around the house, this integration beats Music Assisant with a really big stick.

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Yes, it is the latest version, a work in-progress.
I am trying to get it added to the HACS repo.
Let me know if you have any issues. Thanks!

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I’m still having this problem with OG HomePods getting “lost” by HASS and then rediscovered.

If anyone has any insight, I’d really appreciate it. Can’t reliably add the HomePods as media players right now, because HASS is rediscovering them as a new set about once a day or so.

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Does this only happen when the device is part of a stereo pair?

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@DifferentComputers, can you elaborate a bit on how you see it superior over Music Assistant ? (OP, no pun intended).

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Well first, I could never get MA to reliably stay logged in to Apple Music.

But even when it WAS working, the interface for MA was exceedingly opaque to me. I tried to understand how to use it at least three times, and literally couldn’t even get it to play to any Airplay device.

Also MA doesn’t support any of the better audio codecs that are built right in to Apple Music.

Now maybe my use case is wildly different from most users of Music Assistant. For example I ONLY use Apple Music, and I strongly prefer to run my house’s audio from a central Mac that has my whole library on it and can control the various Airplay devices around the house from there.

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I can’t say for sure if it only happens when it’s a stereo pair, because the only ones it happens to are always in a stereo pair.

I have one other HomePod, a mini, but it isn’t in a pair. My Great Room HomePods are always paired.

Interestingly, since I most recently fixed the pair in my music dashboard, they have not needed fixing again–and that is at least a day longer than I usually get to go without having to fix them. Only thing I can think is by giving them some sort of unique custom name, HASS is tracking them better, maybe? (previously they were always renamed to “great room” but this time I named them “Great Room Apple Music” so I could more easily differentiate them if they went bad on me.)