Apple Music "Current Track" doesn't work with streaming

[MikeSuiter]

I've installed the Apple Music scripts on 2 2019 MacBook Pro's 15" with Big Sur 11.2, and don't know if these are issues or just the way they work.

1. When music is playing, "Current Track" just shows a Refreshed! snackbar and that's it. Is the snackbar supposed to show what is currently playing?
2. If I do a "Stop" and then a "Play" nothing happens. Maybe "Play" only works after a "Pause"?

UPDATE

After some debugging with @unnamedd we found the problem with # 1 above is it only works with local songs. If you stream a song you get "Not playing". What happens is these two lines throw an error:

		set currentTrackName to name of the current track
		set currentTrackArtist to artist of the current track

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[crstauf]

2. If I do a "Stop" and then a "Play" nothing happens. Maybe "Play" only works after a "Pause"?

That's correct.

[unnamedd]

@MikeSuiter as @crstauf already answered you, I guess we can close this issue. If you need anything else regarding this subject, feel free to reopen the issue or join us in our community: https://raycast.com/community, will be a pleasure to have you there.

[MikeSuiter]

@unnamedd What about item 1 above which hasn't been addressed? Looking at the script it's collecting the name and artist but all that happens is a refreshed snackbar.

[unnamedd]

@MikeSuiter here it's working well, check it out:

Reading the code, it update the dashboard each 10 seconds, then as soon you play a song or change it, it may take 10 seconds until refresh to present the current playing track.

[MikeSuiter]

@unnamedd Interesting just tried it on my wife's MBA M1 and it works fine. On my home MBP and work MBP it's not working even though play, pause, next, etc. are working from those scripts. Other than Music is there another permission current track needs?

[unnamedd]

I'm also using an M1 here. For sure, might be some permission missing.

I was checking my permissions and I unchecked the Music and it still here, working okay. Check in your configurations if you have gave permissions to Raycast to access your system across groups like Accessibility and Full Access Disk. It may be related to this.

PS: Do your work MBP has any kind of special compliance configuration? Some companies doesn't allow some configurations in their computers.

[MikeSuiter]

Raycast has Full Disk Access and Accessibility access on my home MBP which doesn't have any company restrictions.

[unnamedd]

@MikeSuiter, what happen if you run the script using the terminal?

Here is my result:

$ cd script-commands/_enabled-commands/apple-music
$ osascript apple-music-current-track.applescript
A Tout Le Monde - Megadeth

[MikeSuiter]

> osascript apple-music-current-track.applescript
Not playing

I don't think it would matter, but my home MBP went from Mojave -> Catalina -> Big Sur and my wife's MBA M1 came with Big Sur. I'm using zsh and an admin on both.

[unnamedd]

@MikeSuiter, are you on our Slack? I guess we will be more productive solving that issue using a chat instead of the issue comments. What do you think?

[MikeSuiter]

@unnamedd I just joined the Raycast Slack? Should I post this in # bugs there?

[unnamedd]

I don't think this is a Raycast bug, this is related to your machine and me and you will try to solve this problem! ;)

Give some minutes to get back to my computer.

[MikeSuiter]

@mmerle since you're the author of this script I thought I would tag you. You can probably ignore all the replies here and just look at the UPDATE of the first post.

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