Feature request: Apple Music track changes trigger

[cdthomer]

Hey @peternlewis, out of curiosity, have you ever considered adding a trigger for when the Apple Music track changes?

EventScripts.app has the ability to detect this, and I use it for a variety of things, but I was wondering if this was something you had or would consider.

-Chris

[Airy]

Here's a similar thread:

Anyone know of a way to tell KM when a song is done playing in Music? (using only KM actions, no scripts)

Hello and thanks for reading. I started building a macro and stuck at the beginning. I need the macro to play the song the cursor is hovering on, then it goes to the end of the song and after some seconds, when the song ends to perform a bunch of actions. I didn't find a way (was thinking of something like "If then else" do this until the song plays or while it plays. My problem is that as the song finishes playing, the next in queue starts right away. I need to pause the macro as th…

I suspect that Apple Music doesn't have any public API which KM could use to create a trigger. If it did have a trigger, I think Peter would probably have used it.

In that thread, I think I provided some code (two different solutions) that tell you when a song has finished. And now that you mention this topic again, I think I'm very close to a third type of solution.

[peternlewis]

I don't know of any API or notification that the system would send in such case.

Keyboard Maestro triggers are required to be virtually no ongoing CPU usage while unused.

[cdthomer]

Thanks @Airy I’ll check out that thread!

@peternlewis I figured as much, but I’ve been away from the forum quite a bit this year and wasn’t sure if I had missed something. Thanks for comfirming!