MacOS Catalina, Apple music

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Алиса Мыльникова

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Jul 31, 2019, 6:08:50 AM7/31/19
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Hello, in new macOS Catalina there is no iTunes - only Apple Music, for which I didn't find a plugin in the latest version 1.6.0. Could you please add a plugin for this app?

Nick

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Oct 22, 2019, 2:51:28 PM10/22/19
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I would like to second this request.

Lucas Garron

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Oct 22, 2019, 6:54:16 PM10/22/19
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This is also a super valuable feature for me. 

If there was someone who’d be motivated to implement this with some compensation, I’d totally chip in $100 (or even more). 😀

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On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 11:51 Nick <ndim...@gmail.com> wrote:
I would like to second this request.

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Rob McBroom

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Oct 22, 2019, 10:24:49 PM10/22/19
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The main reason I haven’t installed Catalina is because I can’t live
without this plug-in. It’ll have to be updated to use the iTunes
Library framework. The problem is that framework only works in signed
apps, and as mentioned elsewhere, code signing isn’t working for QS
any more for some reason.

Any ideas?

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Raafi Rivero

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Dec 4, 2019, 7:06:38 AM12/4/19
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I'd chip in as well. Controlling music with Quicksilver is deeply embedded in how I use a Mac. Is there a way to hack the existing iTunes plugin to work with Music.app??


On Tuesday, October 22, 2019 at 6:54:16 PM UTC-4, lgarron wrote:
This is also a super valuable feature for me. 

If there was someone who’d be motivated to implement this with some compensation, I’d totally chip in $100 (or even more). 😀

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On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 11:51 Nick <ndim...@gmail.com> wrote:
I would like to second this request.

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Mal Function

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Dec 4, 2019, 7:12:08 AM12/4/19
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Rob - I haven't moved from Mojave to Catalina yet either.  What is the prognosis for QS working with it in the future?  Do you think the code-signing issue will be resolvable?  Since you are our main guru and yet this eludes you, do we need a funding round to find someone who may be able to throw some light on the matter?

Rob McBroom

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Dec 5, 2019, 8:09:36 AM12/5/19
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On 4 Dec 2019, at 7:12, Mal Function wrote:

What is the prognosis for QS working with it in the future?

I don’t know how to answer that. I have ideas about what I’m going to do, but anyone could theoretically be working on this.

Do you think the code-signing issue will be resolvable?

I would assume so.

Since you are our main guru and yet this eludes you, do we need a funding round to find someone who may be able to throw some light on the matter?

Feel free. Note that since we have a paid developer account for signing, I think we get a free support call with Apple every year. I just have to figure out how to use it and find time to do so.

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Will Fiveash

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Feb 11, 2020, 2:03:36 PM2/11/20
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On Thursday, December 5, 2019 at 7:09:36 AM UTC-6, Rob McBroom wrote:

On 4 Dec 2019, at 7:12, Mal Function wrote:

What is the prognosis for QS working with it in the future?

I don’t know how to answer that. I have ideas about what I’m going to do, but anyone could theoretically be working on this.



I have a very naive question on the issue of a QS plugin to control the macOS Music app; is it possible to write a plug-in in Swift that uses the MusicKit API to replicate the iTunes plug-in functionality (really two questions there)?

Rob McBroom

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Feb 12, 2020, 6:39:56 AM2/12/20
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On 11 Feb 2020, at 14:03, Will Fiveash wrote:

I have a very naive question on the issue of a QS plugin to control the
macOS Music app; is it possible to write a plug-in in Swift that uses the
MusicKit API to replicate the iTunes plug-in functionality (really two
questions there)?

It looks like you might be able to use MusicKit to get the list of available tracks, etc., but for playback, you would only use MusicKit if you wanted to turn QS itself into a media player. I don’t think we want that.

iTunesLibrary can also get the track info, replacing what we currently do with the XML. We could continue to use iTunes/Music.app’s scripting interface to play things.

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Will Fiveash

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Feb 12, 2020, 10:11:39 AM2/12/20
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That is good to know, thanks.  I'm guessing that your iTunes plugin could be modified to interact with the Music app using iTunesLibrary and the scripting interface, yes?

Rob McBroom

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Feb 12, 2020, 2:15:26 PM2/12/20
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On 12 Feb 2020, at 10:11, Will Fiveash wrote:

> I'm guessing that your iTunes plugin could be modified to interact
> with the Music app using iTunesLibrary and the scripting interface,
> yes?

In theory. iTunesLibrary is pretty picky about who it allows to read
from it, though.

I haven’t personally tested any of the scripting stuff with the Music
app, but I think it carried over everything iTunes had, so it would
hopefully just require changing a bunch of names.

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