🎧 Apple Music Presence

Discord Rich Presence for Apple Music on macOS.

Song, artist, album art and a live progress bar — straight from the native app.

Install

brew install ryzenixx/tap/apple-music-presence
brew services start apple-music-presence

The first time, macOS asks to let it control Music — click OK. Press play in Apple Music; your profile lights up.

Features

• Album art for every track, even ones missing from iTunes
• Live progress bar with clickable Apple Music links
• One static binary, zero runtime

Configuration

Full list of flags with apple-music-presence --help.

Flag	Default	What it does
--headline	song	Status line: song · artist · app
--upload-artwork	true	Cover for tracks missing from iTunes
--buttons	true	Listen on Apple Music button

apple-music-presence --headline artist   # "Listening to bbno$"

Development

Requires Go 1.26+.

go run ./cmd/apple-music-presence --log-level debug
make lint build      # gofmt · go vet · staticcheck · build

How it works

AppleScript reads the now-playing track, the iTunes API adds cover art and links, and the result is pushed to the local Discord client over its IPC socket — the same channel the official SDK uses. No OAuth, no daemon beyond this one binary.

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