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Provides comprehensive control over Apple Music, including playlist management, catalog search, playback control, and personalized recommendations. Synchronizes Apple Music playlist descriptions and metadata to iCloud. Enables discovery of top hits from Shazam charts and direct population into Apple Music playlists. Enables discovery of top hits from Spotify charts and direct population into Apple Music playlists. Enables discovery of top hits from YouTube charts and direct population into Apple Music playlists.

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apple_music_mcp

by saitarrun

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Python

Local

Apple Music MCP

A high-performance Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Apple Music. Dual native macOS JXA & cloud REST engine with cross-platform discovery, async batching, and zero-timeout execution.

⚡ Quick Start

Run instantly with npx or uvx (zero install required):

Option A: Using `npx` (Recommended)

npx -y @saitarrunpitta/apple-music-mcp

Option B: Using `uvx`

uvx --from git+https://github.com/saitarrun/apple-music-mcp.git apple-music-mcp serve

Option C: Install locally via npm or pip

npm install -g @saitarrunpitta/apple-music-mcp
# or
pip install git+https://github.com/saitarrun/apple-music-mcp.git

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🔌 MCP Client Setup

Add apple-music to your preferred AI assistant in seconds:

1. Antigravity / AGY CLI

agy mcp add apple-music -- npx -y @saitarrunpitta/apple-music-mcp

2. Claude Desktop (`claude_desktop_config.json`)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apple-music": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@saitarrunpitta/apple-music-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

3. Cursor (`~/.cursor/mcp.json`)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apple-music": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@saitarrunpitta/apple-music-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

4. Codex MCP

codex mcp add apple-music -- npx -y @saitarrunpitta/apple-music-mcp

✨ Features at a Glance

⚡ Zero-Timeout JXA Engine: Reads playlists with 1,000+ songs in under 100ms without AppleScript freezes.
🌐 Cross-Platform Charts: Direct discovery feeds from Shazam, Spotify, YouTube, and Apple Music.
🚀 Async Parallel Batching: Add or remove 100+ songs in parallel in under 1 second.
🎵 Pure-Audio Enforcement: Auto-filters out music videos and lyric videos to keep playlists pure audio.
🛡️ 100% Duplicate Prevention: Built-in fuzzy matching prevents duplicate song additions.
🔐 Automatic Safari Auth: Extracts web player tokens seamlessly from Safari without manual API keys.
🧠 Smart Recommendations: Real-time track suggestions based on your listening history & artist similarity.

🛠️ Tools Reference

Category	Tool	Description
Discovery	`apple_music_get_cross_platform_charts`	Pull top hits from Shazam, Spotify, YouTube, or Apple Music charts.
	`apple_music_populate_from_charts`	Populate a playlist directly from any chart with deduplication.
	`apple_music_get_music_recommendations`	Smart recommendations based on listening history & artists.
	`apple_music_get_recently_played`	Fetch recent listening history from Apple Music cloud.
	`apple_music_get_heavy_rotation`	Fetch most played albums and playlists.
Playlists	`apple_music_list_playlists`	List all library playlists with track counts and descriptions.
	`apple_music_get_playlist_tracks`	Fast bulk retrieval of tracks (title, artist, album, duration).
	`apple_music_add_tracks_to_playlist`	Parallel batch add with zero duplicates.
	`apple_music_remove_tracks_from_playlist`	Bulk remove track relationship IDs.
	`apple_music_create_playlist`	Create new playlist with custom description.
	`apple_music_delete_playlist`	Safely delete playlist without removing songs from library.
	`apple_music_set_playlist_description`	Update playlist description and sync to iCloud.
Catalog	`apple_music_search_catalog`	Search global Apple Music catalog (songs, albums, artists, playlists).
	`apple_music_resolve_song`	Pin exact studio audio catalog ID for title/artist.
	`apple_music_get_artist_top_songs`	Get top-rated songs for any artist.
	`apple_music_get_catalog_playlist_tracks`	Fetch tracks from official Apple curated playlists (`pl.xxx`).
Playback	`apple_music_playback_control`	Control player (`play`, `pause`, `skip`, `volume`, `shuffle`, `rate`, `love`).
	`apple_music_airplay_devices`	Discover available AirPlay speakers and HomePods.
Curation	`apple_music_curation_clean_videos`	Strip video entities and swap with official studio audio songs.
	`apple_music_curation_deduplicate`	Deduplicate playlist editions, keeping canonical tracks.
	`apple_music_curation_merge_playlists`	Merge playlists with 100% deduplication.

💻 CLI Commands

# Check status & active tokens
apple-music-mcp status

# Extract authentication tokens from open Safari session
apple-music-mcp login

# Clear catalog cache
apple-music-mcp clean-cache

# Run MCP server over stdio
apple-music-mcp serve

🏷️ Tags & Discoverability

#ModelContextProtocol #MCP #MCPServer #AppleMusic #ClaudeAI #CursorAI #AnthropicClaude #AIAgents #MusicKit #Spotify #Shazam #YouTubeMusic #AppleScript #Python #OpenSource #DeveloperTools #LLM #Automation #PlaylistGenerator

📄 License

MIT © saitarrun

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Apple Music MCP

⚡ Quick Start

Option A: Using npx (Recommended)

Option B: Using uvx

Option C: Install locally via npm or pip

🔌 MCP Client Setup

1. Antigravity / AGY CLI

2. Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json)

3. Cursor (~/.cursor/mcp.json)

4. Codex MCP

✨ Features at a Glance

🛠️ Tools Reference

💻 CLI Commands

🏷️ Tags & Discoverability

📄 License

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Option A: Using `npx` (Recommended)

Option B: Using `uvx`

2. Claude Desktop (`claude_desktop_config.json`)

3. Cursor (`~/.cursor/mcp.json`)