I can and will use my Mac and iPad and iPhone for some tasks, but once I have my playlists, I can ask for songs or artists or playlists and no longer need an iPhone to direct the music. Sorry for the occasional false positives.In 2022 - Siri and Apple Watch and AirPods and HomePod are now the primary players for me. Also tries fuzzier search queries for better matching of classical music and soundtracks. Vastly improve album matching (Will now handle the majority of naming inconsistencies, including live albums and deluxe editions.Make Spotify button a search link when no match found.Remove player embedding (now impossible due to Content Security Policy restrictions by Apple).Fix for changes in Spotify API authentication rules.If you suspect this is the case, you can always look for it manually on Spotify. The search API may have trouble finding a match due to minor naming discrepancies.Japanese queries seem to work most of the time, but not always. This is a limitation of the Spotify search API. The script will try to work across different locales, but may fail to find a match when the album/artist name on the iTunes page is in an alternative language, like the Chinese 史密斯飞船合唱团 for Aerosmith.When multiple matches are found in the Spotify catalog, the first one will be used.Set up your Client ID and Secret in the “User preferences (advanced)” section at the top of the script. If you want to use your own credentials to communicate with the Spotify API directly, first register an application with Spotify.If you want the Spotify link to open in the Web Player instead of the desktop app, look for the open_in_app variable at the top of the script and set it to false.

The embedded Spotify player had to be removed due to Content Security Policy restrictions that were added in the Apple Music redesign.If you have privacy concerns, you can use your own credentials and bypass my server (see “Options” section below). Unfortunately, this means your searches must be sent through my server to make API calls on your behalf. Due to recent changes in the Spotify API authentication rules, search calls now require client credentials.

Currently broken in Safari Tampermonkey due to a combination of Apple adding CSP rules to their iTunes pages and Safari ignoring the CSP spec 🙁 Tested in Chrome Tampermonkey and Firefox Greasemonkey. Is everyone sending you links from Apple Music? Here’s a userscript for Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey that adds Spotify links to iTunes album and artist pages.

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