- name
- apple-music-play
- description
- Play Apple Music songs on macOS using clawtunes, including streaming catalog tracks via a practical keyboard-navigation workaround after opening the song in Music. Use when the user asks to play a song, artist, album, playlist, or mood in Apple Music and normal AppleScript/library playback is not enough. Works with the Mac Apple Music app plus online catalog search/play. Aliases: clawtunes-play.
Clawtunes Play
Use clawtunes as the first choice for Apple Music control on this Mac.
Workflow
- For library items, try direct playback first.
- For songs likely not in the library, search the Apple Music catalog and open the selected result in Music.
- For catalog playback, prefer the wrapper script that tries the best-known keyboard sequence automatically:
- Tab + Tab + Enter - fallback: Tab + Enter - fallback: Shift-Tab + Enter
- Check whether playback actually changed to the requested song.
- If playback did not switch, say so plainly.
Commands
- Direct library-style play:
- clawtunes_play --song "<song>"
- Catalog play wrapper:
- catalog_play "<query>"
- Status only:
- clawtunes_play --status
- Experimental step-by-step catalog workflow:
- catalog_play_experiment "<query>" --index 1 --strategy tab-tab-enter
Requirements
This skill assumes these local tools are available on macOS:
clawtunespython3osascriptopen
It also needs macOS Accessibility / Automation permission so System Events can send keyboard input to Music.
Install / Use
- Keep repo in
skills/clawtunes-play - Commands:
clawtunes_play,catalog_play,catalog_play_experiment - For catalog playback, use the wrapper script in
scripts/catalog_play_wrapper.sh
Notes
clawtunes play songtargets library playback.clawtunes catalog searchopens the streaming result in Music, but Music may not autoplay unless the UI focus lands correctly.- The current best-known workaround is keyboard navigation after opening the result.
- This is macOS UI-state dependent; it is usable, but not a guaranteed Apple primitive.