Add currently playing song to Apple Music using AppleScript Editor
I am trying to make an AppleScript that automatically adds the current track that I am listening to on Apple Music to my library.
What I have done so far is set the option "Add songs to Library when adding to playlist" to true and then used the following AppleScript code below:
tell application "iTunes"
duplicate current track to playlist "New Songs"
end tell
What happens is it adds the song to the playlist and then it is automatically removed from the playlist and it is not added to my library.
When I add the song to the playlist manually, the track stays in the playlist and gets added to my Library.
How am I to get ScriptEditor to save the current track to my library?
I had the same question today. I don't know AppleScript (first time using it was to make this) so this code is probably very inefficient syntax-wise, but didn't want to risk breaking it by refactoring.
It turns out the only way to add a song to the library in every scenario using AppleScript is to force the application to go into the mini player and then use the "Add to Library" button in the menu bar. You can remove the mini player part of the script if you don't need this script to work with songs that aren't in playlists (e.g a radio).
tell application "System Events"
set frontmostApplicationName to name of 1st process whose frontmost is true
end tell
tell application "System Events"
tell process "iTunes"
try
tell menu bar 1
tell menu bar item "View"
tell menu "View"
click menu item "Exit Full Screen"
end tell
end tell
end tell
end try
end tell
tell process "iTunes"
set frontmost to true
try
tell menu bar 1
tell menu bar item "Window"
tell menu "Window"
click menu item "Switch to Mini Player"
end tell
end tell
end tell
end try
end tell
tell process "iTunes"
try
tell menu bar 1
tell menu bar item "Song"
tell menu "Song"
click menu item "Add to Library"
end tell
end tell
end tell
end try
end tell
delay 0.5
tell process "iTunes"
set frontmost to true
try
tell menu bar 1
tell menu bar item "Window"
tell menu "Window"
click menu item "Switch from Mini Player"
end tell
end tell
end tell
end try
end tell
end tell
tell application "iTunes"
next track -- if you listen to another person's playlist and add the current playing track, sometimes apple music will completely stop playback (bug), so we have to skip song to avoid this
end tell
tell application frontmostApplicationName
activate
end tell
this seems to work pretty well:
tell application "iTunes"
duplicate current track to source "Library"
end tell
This works for me - loves the song and adds to library (I have a smart list to show loved songs, but they only appear if the song is in the library).
tell application "Music"
if current track is not loved then
set loved of current track to not loved of current track
duplicate current track to source "Library"
end if
end tell