On Wednesday, February 12, 2020 at 5:39:56 AM UTC-6, Rob McBroom wrote:
>
> On 11 Feb 2020, at 14:03, Will Fiveash wrote:
>
> I have a very naive question on the issue of a QS plugin to control the
> macOS Music app; is it possible to write a plug-in in Swift that uses the
> MusicKit API to replicate the iTunes plug-in functionality (really two
> questions there)?
>
> It looks like you might be able to use MusicKit to get the list of 
> available tracks, etc., but for playback, you would only use MusicKit if 
> you wanted to turn QS itself into a media player. I don’t think we want 
> that.
>
> iTunesLibrary <https://developer.apple.com/documentation/ituneslibrary> 
> can also get the track info, replacing what we currently do with the XML. 
> We could continue to use iTunes/Music.app’s scripting interface to play 
> things.
>

That is good to know, thanks.  I'm guessing that your iTunes plugin could 
be modified to interact with the Music app using iTunesLibrary and the 
scripting interface, yes?

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