# applemusic-mcp MCP Server

Apple Music MCP server: playlists, library, catalog, playback and Up Next, on Mac/Windows/Linux.

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `applemusic-mcp` on pypi. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**6 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 5.

### Most discussed

### Tokenless (web-session) path hits HTTP 429 after ~250 catalog searches — rolling-hour quota is shared and invisible; bulk work needs --dev

### Summary

The tokenless web-session path (`login --safari`, the macOS default since #38) works
beautifully for interactive use, but it hits `HTTP 429` well below Apple's documented
limits when used for **bulk catalog matching** — and because Apple returns no rate-limit
headers on this path, there's no way to see it coming or know when it clears.

Posting this because I burned ~90 minutes discovering it empirically. A line in the README
would save others the same detour.

### What I was doing

[Read the thread](https://github.com/epheterson/applemusic-mcp/issues/42) · 2026-07-27 · closed · external user · 5 comments

### Add to playlist fails

First of all, thank you very much for this awesome project! Working around the API and having to pay 99$ is an awesome feat :)

On MacOS 26.4.1 it fails to add songs to a library, these are a couple of log outputs printed:

```
2026-06-20T03:18:31.388Z [Apple Music] [info] Message from server: {"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":10,"result":{"content":[{"type":"text","text":"Errors:\n  - Levels: Failed to add to library: 'Levels': no 'Add to Library' button on the track row — it may be a single whose add cont

[Read the thread](https://github.com/epheterson/applemusic-mcp/issues/37) · 2026-06-20 · closed · external user · 7 comments

### Security improvements: CORS hardening, token file permissions, Content-Length limit & CI pinning

## Hey Eric 👋

First of all — thank you for building this project! The AppleScript injection prevention in particular is really well thought out (stripping control characters before embedding in string literals is exactly the right call), and the overall code quality is great.

We did a security audit before integrating this as an MCP server, found a few medium/low-severity issues, and forked the repo to fix them. Wanted to share in case you'd like to pull any of it back.

## What we changed

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[Read the thread](https://github.com/epheterson/applemusic-mcp/issues/32) · 2026-06-09 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### trying to search and add to playlist fails

macOS 15.7.4

I asked claude to search for a list of songs and add them to a playlist. No API access, just UI.

It typed out the search in the correct field but then just sits there, nothing is selected from the results drop down. Claude says:
The error is coming from inside the MCP tool's automation script — it's not even getting to the click stage because its own internal check for the popover is timing out, even though the popover is visually appearing. This is a bug in the applemusic-mcp too

[Read the thread](https://github.com/epheterson/applemusic-mcp/issues/28) · 2026-06-02 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### `playback(action='play')` fails for tracks with Unicode smart quotes (U+2019) in title

## Summary

Certain tracks are discoverable via `library(action='search')` but cannot be played via `playback(action='play')`, returning "Track not found". The affected tracks appear to have a right single quotation mark `'` (U+2019) in their title rather than a standard apostrophe `'` (U+0027). Both input variants fail for playback on these tracks.

## Reproduction

### Failing tracks (smart quote `'` U+2019 in metadata)

```python
library(action="search", query="That's a No No")
# ✅ Found: Tha

[Read the thread](https://github.com/epheterson/applemusic-mcp/issues/26) · 2026-05-30 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

[See all 6 reports Pod holds for applemusic-mcp](/mcp/applemusic-mcp/issues).

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