So, I have a bit of a problem: No matter how many times I correctly fill in the information in the search bar, the only thing I yield is this error message:
For comparison's sake, I don't have this problem with the iTunes and iTunes API scripts. But I wonder if this particular web script needs an update. It has been a while.
I don’t update it just to update it. It has been working fine and no reported issues.
What are you searching for and what did you expect to find?
Apple may have released changes to their backend. It usually coincides with new releases of their os. I know they also work on their classical music app, and I am curious how it will affect Apple Music. I will take a look.
As you could seen in the screenshot, it's an album by Birgit Nilsson of a bunch of classical songs. I typed in "Birgit Nilsson Birgit Nilsson - Songs," and that did not work (despite being correct), and I used the iTunes Collection ID, and that still didn't work. I'm not sure why neither method works anymore. Like I said, the other iTunes web scripts work fine; it's just Apple Music that isn't working for some reason. I use Apple Music primarily to fill out any information that the iTunes web scripts miss out on, such as composers, composer IDs, artist IDs, etc.
Ok, so seems like Apple has made changes to the website, so the information is not exposed. I don’t have much time to investigate this further for now unfortunately.
Hi, Thank you for the wonderful script but unfortunately I'm having the same problem as @mirogeorgiev97 no matter what keywords I put into search field, it always returns with "nothing found"
I've manually searched for the albums on Apple Music and they are there but script can't find them.
That's not quite correct.
The albums are found and displayed in the "List of search results", if there is more than 1. But when you select an album in the search result the reference to the album itself seems to be broken. ("Sorry no entries are matching your search criteria").
It's been a few days since this script didn't work and I'm waiting for an update.
I am always grateful to the developers of this script.
English is not my native language, so I hope you can understand even if there is some awkward English.
Yeah! same here. All the new albums still resides in the inbox waiting to be added to the library. Need to fix the tags first. Hope the author of the script @AreDigg finds the time to fix it.
So apple now require the use of an Apple Music API developer token for all requests to their API, which wasn't needed before?
sorry for the naive question, but Is this not also needed for the iTunes API used in your other script?
If mp3tag scripts don't offer the ability to send these as part of an HTTP request, then that's not great, as many APIs will be using this for authentication in future I'm sure.
A token has officially always been required for Apple Music API. I gave link to Apples documentation at the top of this thread. There have been ways to circumvent this.
iTunes API doesn’t require it. I imagine there could be a lot of reasons why. iTunes is much older and you can’t access individual users data. A developer token requires a developer account, which requires registration with Apple. It is a way for Apple to have more control. There are limitations on how many requests you can do per token.
Florian could probably implement a way for scripts to inject tokens in the header, but it will be up to him.
Use of a token in APIs are not something new, and yes it is more and more common. It gives the provider control and means to monetize it.
You may have to try some alternative web sources at least for now. The author for this one has already said they have limited time and expect some challenges due to new Apple restrictions.
There are plenty of other ways to get tag info online. Try discogs to start. And of course the good old-fashioned manual method had been proven most effective.
Sorry to hear about the change. In any case - thanks for a great script AreDigg! Hoping there will be a workaround available at some point but it was easily my most useful metadata tool, while it was available. I really appreciate all of the effort you put into it!