Apple Music Song Data

Questions & Suggestions
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Hi, newby here. I have a KM script that grabs the current playing song title and artist name. I cannot find a variable for song date.

I know I can use the get info command in Apple Music to display the track info window, but I assume I need to use named clipboards to set each piece of information into its own clipboard location and then call each named clipboard to insert the data I want. That's where I'm not getting it.

Could someone explain to me or point me to an example of how to extract Apple Music info.

Thanks

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The track object in the osascript (AppleScript / JavaScript) interface to Music.app has two properties that sound close your your 'song date':

  • release date
  • year

So, for example (year value for first selected item)

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or

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(() => {
    "use strict";

    const
        music = Application("Music"),
        track = music.selection()[0];

    return ["name", "composer", "year"].reduce(
        (accumulator, keyName) =>
        `${accumulator}${track[keyName]()}\n`,
        ""
    );
})();