New Apple Music API means endless integration possibilities

Apple has a new API for its Music service which offers a variety of exciting features for developers, allowing them to do all kinds of things they couldn't before.

Among them:

• See if a user is currently an Apple Music member
• See which country the user's account is based in
• Queue up the next song or songs based on a song ID for playback
• Inspect playlists already in My Music or create a new playlist with a title and description (see App Store Review Guidelines for limitations).

In turn, this added functionality opens up possibilities like Facebook creating playlists for you based on songs your friends have posted; fitness apps could create playlists based on tempo, and social music apps could pop up left and right. In short, every developer can now integrate Apple Music into their own apps and software in a ton of different ways without having to worry about things like licensing, since that's handled by Apple.

In other words, the future is bright.

Last updated: Apr 6, 2020 at 04:50 pm CDT