Apple Music API - return a users recently played tracks

Is there an Apple Music API which returns a users recently played tracks

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No, not it's job.


Use avfoundation/avplayer


https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avfoundation/avplayer

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KMT
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No, there is not one for recently played tracks, but there is one for recently played albums. It's kind of strange, in my opinion.


Check out get recently played.


See also this post: https://forums.developer.apple.com/message/274653

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Had a look at it today. Still as @TheCD said. Small correction though, the recently played endpoint returns albums, playlists, and stations. Still no songs though.

For a deeper dive into that endpoint see https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/669720?answerId=666540022#666540022
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Juroo
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There is an endpoint now https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applemusicapi/get_recently_played_tracks

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geoffnewman
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  • Unfortunately this API seems to have a number of frustrating limitations:

    1. There's no timestamp for when the track was played 2. Tracks that are played via Autoplay or a radio station are not reported 3. Tracks seem to be added immediately when playback starts rather than at completion (or some fixed delay)

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    kelchm

  • Also as far as I can tell, there is no support for this /recent/played/tracks in MusicKit JS, despite there being support for /recent/played. Very frustrating. Wish they would just release it as a node library instead of having us load a script to use it.

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    talal916
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