Play MP3 or AAC Stream in Music

[802re...@gmail.com]

I had a trigger set up to play a stream in Music, then I tried to edit it and it broke it.

I know the first panel had the URL in it, then I can't seem to figure out how to get Music to open the stream now, it's not target in Open with... 

[Rob McBroom]

The “Open URL” action should work with pretty much any URL (not just HTTP), but it might not appear by default.

You can try selecting it in the second pane, but if it really won’t appear, select a real URL in the main QS interface then right-click to copy the “Open URL” action, then paste it into the second pane in the Trigger prefs and save it.

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[802re...@gmail.com]

I don't want to open the url in the browser I want to open it in Music (FKA iTunes)

[· Michael Medina]

Ok, I was able to restore from a backup and the action is "Open with Application..."

That trigger came in with the triggers.plist file

I cannot find that action in my actions anymore.  

I guess it's not an issue anymore, but it's strange to me that it's not in there.

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[Rob McBroom]

On 14 Jan 2022, at 19:01, · Michael Medina wrote:

> Ok, I was able to restore from a backup and the action is "Open with
> Application..."
> That trigger came in with the triggers.plist file
> I cannot find that action in my actions anymore.
> I guess it's not an issue anymore, but it's strange to me that it's not in
> there.

That sounds like the “Open With…” action which takes an application in the 3rd pane.

> I don't want to open the url in the browser I want to open it in Music (FKA iTunes)

The “Open URL” action just tells macOS to open the URL, not your browser. So for example, if you open the URL dict://example the system will open the Dictionary app.

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[· Michael Medina]

With a URL in the first pane, "Open With Application" is not a choosable action.

In my actions under url, I have 4 choices, Open URL, Open URL in Background, Open URL With..., and Open E-mail URL

Yet I have it in one trigger.  I can't recreate the trigger, maybe it's something from an old version of Quicksilver but it would be nice to know how to add "Open With Application" to a URLs set of actions as it either used to be an action or it was hackable at some point

I mean I have it in an old trigger that I have a backup of and I started using a script to open the url in Music, but at this point, I'm just curious about the lost functionality

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[Rob McBroom]

On 18 Jan 2022, at 17:26, · Michael Medina wrote:

With a URL in the first pane, "Open With Application" is not a choosable
action.

There is no such action. There’s one called “Open With…”, but it works on files, not URLs.

You do not need to tell Quicksilver which application to open a URL with. Just use “Open URL” and macOS should launch the appropriate application automatically.

In my actions under url, I have 4 choices, Open URL, Open URL in
Background, Open URL With..., and Open E-mail URL

That’s weird. The “Open With…” action is provided by the Core Support plug-in, which is built into the app.

“Open URL With…” allows you to choose an application in the third pane, but that one will only show applications that claim support for http://, which will mostly be web browsers.

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[· Michael Medina]

Ok, did some more digging, basically the Open URL With... action is only offering the terminal and the browser as targets, nothing else.  Music may not be an option because the Music plugin is broken(?)

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On 19 Jan 2022, at 17:32, · Michael Medina wrote:

Ok, did some more digging, basically the Open URL With... action is only
offering the terminal and the browser as targets, nothing else. Music may
not be an option because the Music plugin is broken(?)

No, that has nothing to do with plug-ins. Like I said, that list is created by asking macOS which apps claim support for http://.

I really think you want “Open URL” and not “Open URL With…”, but I don’t know what the URL looks like. If it’s music://something or itunes://something, it should correctly open in Music and not a browser.

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[· Michael Medina]

It's just a direct link to a streaming service, https:// 

Putting music:// or itunes:// would not tell my computer how to get to the link on the web

Here's a screenshot of the trigger as it exists, I cannot recreate in the UI.

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On 20 Jan 2022, at 10:28, · Michael Medina wrote:

It's just a direct link to a streaming service, https://
Putting music:// or itunes:// would not tell my computer how to get to the
link on the web

Here's a screenshot of the trigger as it exists, I cannot recreate in the
UI.

OK, I get what you’re trying to do now. I don’t know what’s up with the Music app. It handles HTTP URLs just fine¹, but doesn’t advertise support for them. Maybe iTunes did? I don’t have a copy available to check, but I guess it doesn’t matter.

Here’s how you can create the trigger you want.

1. Open the regular QS interface and select the Music app
2. Copy it with ⌘C
3. Go to the Triggers preferences
4. Create the trigger with the URL in the first pane
5. Select the “Open URL With…” action in the second pane
6. Go to the 3rd pane. You won’t be able to select the Music app, but you can paste it with ⌘V
7. Save the trigger

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Rob McBroom

1. You can test this in Terminal with open https://some.url/stream.aac -a Music ↩