obrhoffHappy App Release day. Daft Music is out! 🥳
If you're moving off Spotify and are not happy with the macOS app of Apple Music, give it a try.
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Florian@obrhoff Looks great, congrats!
Two questions that I couldn't find answers to within the app / webpage:
- Does playing music through Daft Music update the Listening History of Apple Music (e.g. show last played songs on iOS)? Even better: Does it support the corresponding Apple Music setting that can be controlled via focus modes?
- What exactly does “Import from Apple Music” do? If the app is an alternative client for Apple Music, why is there an import (instead of a continuous sync)?
@ffried The Listening History should be updated automatically. That’s something the Apple Music Framework does out of the box.
Apple Music itself does not have a real API that allows syncing. For example, you can only add tracks into a playlist but not remove or delete them.
So the app allows you to import those playlists and export them back into Apple Music. Architecture-wise, MusicKit is “just” a playback backend, which might get replaced by something like Tidal or so in the future.
@obrhoff Got it, thanks!
Another one (which I fear has the same answer as the sync-question):
I noticed there's no "New" tab in Daft Music. Not (yet) implemented or not possible?
Personally, I use it quite frequently on the Mac to browse Music through the "more to explore" section at the end.
@ffried I would need to look through the API. I took the pleasure to document the whole WebAPI and I might have missed it (if its not part of the Home sections)