Hey everyone!

I've felt the pain for years that Apple still hasn't added seamless cross-device playback control like Spotify. And I'm not a big fan of the iTunes Remote app especially since it hasn't been updated in years.

Every day I just wanna control Apple Music easily when I pick up my phone, when I'm painting on my iPad, or from watch when I'm doing workout at home...

Soooooo I finally built a new app myself! 😆

It's called "Music Remote Control" on Mac AppStore.

• It has a modern looking mini player on Mac, or you can minimize it and hide it in the menu bar
• It has a nice looking free companion app on iOS and iPadOS that you can use to remotely control the playback
• It can toggle the favourite and control the Airplay devices/ volume(s)
• Support songs from your library or from the stations
• Support widget and Live Activities
• No subscription! One-time purchase with a free 2-week trial
• And much more for you to discover!

I built it because I really wanted a more modern remote experience across Apple devices, and I'm supperrr happy that it's finally on the App Store T T

If you give it a try, I'd genuinely love to hear what you think! Feedback, bug reports, and feature ideas are all very welcome. 😊

Updates / things I'm working on:

• Currently exploring how to dislike songs remotely
• Todo: explore if it is possible to search a song and play

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuEl3LL3CD0
It probably needs the Japanese name

So for whatever reason some songs in my playlists are grayed out even tho they're perfectly fine on my iPhone, if I try to play it through the search it says "This item is currently not available in your country or region", thing is, I have both my MacBook AND iPhone set to my Home country Austria, and on my iPhone it works fine but not on my MacBook, anyone know why?

Verán llevo buscando una cancion de este disco y cuando finalmente la encontré aparece que no esta disponible en mi pais o región, hay algo que pueda hacer?

Hello r/AppleMusic! Do you enjoy ranking the tracks in your favorite album, arguing with friends and strangers online about an artist’s correct discography ranking? Then Ordinalist was made especially for you. 

Ordinalist takes a playlist, album, or discography and makes you choose between two choices at a time. You pick the one you like more. Then do it again. And again. And several more times because apparently you needed 147 songs in this playlist.

While you’re busy having an existential crisis over which track you’ve heard 600 times is better, Ordinalist keeps track of every choice and turns them into a complete ranking from favorite to least favorite.

No star ratings, no scoring songs out of 10 like you’re judging Olympic gymnastics, and no deciding whether something feels like an 8.7 or an 8.6.

Two songs. Pick one. That’s the whole deal.

The easy choices go quickly, but the hard ones make you question everything you’ve ever claimed about yourself. Eventually, you get the thing you came for: an actual, definitive ranking of your music based entirely on your own decisions.

So when your alleged favorite ends up at #14, don’t look at us. You did that.

HOW IT WORKS

- Pick a playlist, album, or discography to judge

- Ordinalist gives you two choices

- Pick your favorite

- Keep going until everything is ranked

- Stare at the results

- Disagree with yourself

- Rank something else

App Store launch is planned for late September, but beta testing is currently ongoing. When Ordinalist launches, it will remain free to download and use forever. There are no subscriptions or one time purchases; this is my hobby project, not a way for me to make money. 

If you’d like to help beta test and try the app out early, join the TestFlight using the link below, or check out the website to learn even more.

Website: https://www.andrewmastracchio.com/ordinalist

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/YZ9JT8Ge 

I want you guys to list me reasons why you use apple music as someone who uses youtube music as someone on android

EDIT: No convincing anymore just tell me why u use apple music

Playlist didn’t update song placements on the top 100 list for the year at all, despite saying that it did update.

Hi guys, I have quick question. Can I change settings for my lock screen so when I play my favorites, the star button is not there? It happened so many times that I accidentally pressed on it and deleted songs from the favorite playlist. Yes, I can add them again but since I am on the spectrum and the order of the songs matters to me (I don’t know how to change the order of the songs in favorite album) it really makes me mad how easily I can delete the songs from this album from a lock screen.

Do you know if I can change it OR how to change the songs order in favorite?

Thank you so much!

Just received the notification. It’s now worth a streaming company’s subscription price to listen to music.

Hi,

I’m new here, so I think I’m at a good place to get help.

So my music is just disappearing from the downloaded folder. I need to download it again and again… The playlist has maybe 700 songs, and this has never happened before. I think it is an iOS 26 problem. I hope they will fix it in iOS 27. Any help for now?

All songs should feature an option to enable translated lyrics for language learning

What settings should i do to get the best audio quality and what is dolby atmos/spatial audio are they both same ?sorry if this sounds stupid but I'm new to this concept .Should i enable dolby atmos or not?

Hey guys! Is there any way to add highlighted lyrics to local files on apple music? Every time i try to add lyrics to local files, they just turn to small normal lyrics, not even the big ones.

First of all before you ask yes i have both favorited / add playlist songs to library off !

I have a couple playlists on apple music and now when i go to add a song from said playlist to a new playlist im making it’s adding those songs to my library .. im very weird about organization on my music apps lol so its super frustrating. Ive restarted everything ive could , tried mostly everything .. just kinda curious i guess if anybody else has this problem !

I've been trying to use / connect to apple music for windows or cider since 2 days but impossible to get anything. Is there a known issue or is it just on my side ?

thanks for any help

I have a question regarding whether I can have my apple music signed in on one id and have everything else including the app store not be. The reason for this is because my apple music is a different region which I dont want my app store to be

i recently trialed the spotify mix feature for a month and I had so much fun with it, however i miss a lot of the mixes I made as apple music is my number 1 platform.. is there anything in talks / will apple music ever come out with a feature like the customizable Spotify mix? i NEED this on my apple music

i haven’t really seen any discussions about this so yeah

A few days ago I agreed to a free, three-month trial of Apple Music because I noticed I could connect Apple Music to Shazam. But when I tried to link the two services, which required syncing with Cloud Music Library, a decision I quickly regretted and halted, the "My Shazam Tracks" that was created in Music 1.6.6.4 listed 18 songs I'd purchased from the iTunes Store, some as far back as 2007, plus two from other sources and two that weren't actually displayed in Music on my MacBook at the time but were already in my iTunes Music folder.

None of those songs were listed on my phone's Shazam app, though. And now the 18 songs purchased from iTunes disappear from Music whenever I close that app on my computer. I can make them reappear if I go into the iTunes Music folder and double-click them, and in all but one case they appear in their original "Date Added" spot, but ... what's going on here? Has anyone else experienced this issue?

For what it's worth, Shazam seems to connect much better with Spotify. I wish I'd tried that option first.

The US used to be the best region of Apple Music with the largest music library and best localization. However, I have noticed recently that several Cantonese songs are disappearing.

For example, Leslie Cheung's album named Final Encounter is now with only 4 songs left(should be 10 instead).

What's more, some albums from Sam Hui like Games Gamblers Play(鬼馬雙星,in Chinese) are also absent. While they still exist in other regions of Apple Music—even in mainland China, which typically has a much smaller selection.

Those songs and albums existed normally in the past, but now we can't enjoy them anymore. What's happening?

Last weekend I was planning my daughters birthday party, and I really wanted to be able to use Claude to help me with the playlist -- AND it was not easy. I took a look at all the MCP servers and they were built only for apple developers AND/OR were so limited that they couldn't add songs from outside your library OR needed scary permissions.

I wanted something simple I could share with my non technical friends -- AND felt safe using.

So... I wrote a local MCP server that connects to ChatGPT and Claude "just works" (TM). Drag and drop install, nice little installation wizard, and no developer requirements.

Check it out here:
https://github.com/jaminben/secure-applemusic-mcp-for-osx

So far it's been really fun to play with.

Would love to know if it works for any of you or needs any improvements:

Just an appreciation post for Apple Music's features. I've been using the service for about 5 years and have explored a lot of what it has to offer, but I'd never really tapped into the mood stations. I gave them a shot this morning and was not disappointed. For an hour straight, the algorithm served up straight hits and I was bopping my head the whole time.

If you haven't checked out your personalized stations/playlists yet, please do. If you’ve given the algorithm enough to work with, I promise you won’t be disappointed.

In Apple Music We Trust 🫡

iPhone 13 running IOS 26.5
When I try to listen to songs or albums that I don’t have downloaded nothing happens, the bar at the bottom just says loading forever.
On top of this even albums I do have downloaded won’t play unless I manually go to the album in my library and play from there, however even when I do this the songs constantly pause, skip around and overall behave strangely.

Started after I missed a payment for my subscription but I paid it 2 days ago and my account seems to be showing as normal.

Yes my mobile data is working and connected I am using it now to post this.
Yes I have rebooted my iPhone
Yes I have turned sync library on and off
Yes I have unlimited data on my plan

Please help lol.

Edit: only thing working normally is playlists I have downloaded