ChatGPT's Apple Music Integration Is Now Live

[novagamer]

Well, at least ****in' try it.

So much of the rhetoric around AI is knee-jerk reaction from people who do not use it, do not understand it, and have their mind made up before even considering a feature.

They're basically drive-by posting, and it's happening everywhere on the internet. There are tremendous problems with AI from privacy to consolidation of power to affordability issues with consumer hardware to IP issues and economic concerns as well as sociological.

BUT. Note: I am not saying "but" to disregard any of the above.

BUT. There is still utility. And not just some utility, like good utility for certain things. Your example is perfect. I used an AI just now to plan out a complicated appointment i have tomorrow, entirely though verbal conversation (and no, it was not chatGPT) and it's like I'm living 5 years in the future. Was it necessary? Honestly, yeah, it remembered something I had mentioned 30 minutes before we wrote up the final summary and I forgot about that particular item and I would have left off my "notes" document that I'd have manually created otherwise.

This type of collaborative sync with AI is extremely nice. The issues are still there and should be worked on, but there is some genuine "I'm kind of living in the future right now" stuff going on too. And that's not even getting into coding etc. where I've seen just ridiculous gains from self-learning to actual code written and commits to my project(s).

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills when people say there is no utility or that it's all waste. It genuinely improves my life in myriad ways, and I'm even an artist too (and I don't use it for art) so you'd think I'd have extreme hate-bias like most do, but no.

I really think if Steve were alive he'd be blown away and we'd be having so much different discourse around it because he would have found a way to frame it that people could get behind. He loved technology, particularly neat technology. And for all its problems, I don't think you can be a fly on the wall for some of the way that I use AI tooling and say that it is not "neat" in an excited / curious way.

I don't like most of the people running these companies, I don't like the power consolidation, I want free models to ultimately win out, but I'll be damned if my day to day life is not already improved. And I'm excited for Apple to get their **** together in this area, too.

 

[svish]

Will try this out. ChatGPT not having read access is good and should help protect user's privacy.

 

[ikramerica]

got this prompt to work on my mac. very nuanced!

"Make me an Apple Music playlist of the top songs sung by women between 1987-1993 that feature a saxophone with an average bpm over 120."

And it will return a list of some kind that may or may not include any songs meeting your criteria.

 

[contacos]

Oh thanks for reminded me to cancel like my 20th trial subscription

 

[JaydenA]

"Make me an Apple Music playlist of the top songs sung by women between 1987-1993 that feature a saxophone with an average bpm over 120."

I'm sorry I can't do that, but i found this on the web for you!

Ievan Polka - Saxaphone Quartet version

 

[Marco Klobas]

I'd appreciate way more if Apple Music would be opened to Roon or enhance the AirPlay protocol with hi-res capabilities rather than this chit-chat silly things (sorry ChatGPT fans out there...).

 

[meridiusuk]

Apple need to open up hi res bitrate For other devices like tidal that let you use connect to your device. This is why I moved from Apple as they lock thinks down just to much. Not interested others rubbish.

 

[un_homme]

I think I’d rather talk to my friends about their music recommendations

You already can share your playlists and listening history with friends, if you so choose.

Share music with friends on iPhone

In Music on iPhone, share music with your friends. You can allow anyone to follow you or just those you choose, and block others.

support.apple.com

 

[un_homme]

Apple need to open up hi res bitrate For other devices like tidal that let you use connect to your device. This is why I moved from Apple as they lock thinks down just to much. Not interested others rubbish.

I am confused. What exactly is Apple locking down with bitrate?

If you subscribe to an Apple Music account, you can access Hi-Res Audio by flipping a setting that applies to both the Apple Music app and the Apple Music Classical app.

About lossless audio in Apple Music - Apple Support

Learn about lossless audio in Apple Music and how to turn it on or off for your device.

support.apple.com

If you subscribe to a Tidal account, you can access Hi-Res Audio within the Tidal Music app. Go to Settings > Audio & Playback and choose Max.

 

[orbital~debris]

So much of the rhetoric around AI is knee-jerk reaction from people who do not use it, do not understand it, and have their mind made up before even considering a feature.

They're basically drive-by posting, and it's happening everywhere on the internet. There are tremendous problems with AI from privacy to consolidation of power to affordability issues with consumer hardware to IP issues and economic concerns as well as sociological.

BUT. Note: I am not saying "but" to disregard any of the above.

BUT. There is still utility. And not just some utility, like good utility for certain things. Your example is perfect. I used an AI just now to plan out a complicated appointment i have tomorrow, entirely though verbal conversation (and no, it was not chatGPT) and it's like I'm living 5 years in the future. Was it necessary? Honestly, yeah, it remembered something I had mentioned 30 minutes before we wrote up the final summary and I forgot about that particular item and I would have left off my "notes" document that I'd have manually created otherwise.

This type of collaborative sync with AI is extremely nice. The issues are still there and should be worked on, but there is some genuine "I'm kind of living in the future right now" stuff going on too. And that's not even getting into coding etc. where I've seen just ridiculous gains from self-learning to actual code written and commits to my project(s).

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills when people say there is no utility or that it's all waste. It genuinely improves my life in myriad ways, and I'm even an artist too (and I don't use it for art) so you'd think I'd have extreme hate-bias like most do, but no.

I really think if Steve were alive he'd be blown away and we'd be having so much different discourse around it because he would have found a way to frame it that people could get behind. He loved technology, particularly neat technology. And for all its problems, I don't think you can be a fly on the wall for some of the way that I use AI tooling and say that it is not "neat" in an excited / curious way.

I don't like most of the people running these companies, I don't like the power consolidation, I want free models to ultimately win out, but I'll be damned if my day to day life is not already improved. And I'm excited for Apple to get their **** together in this area, too.

Very good post!

Reasoned thinking, good to know there are others having the same kinds of thoughts on this technology.

(Also think eco & environmental impacts, as well as the potential negative effects on human intelligence need to be added as drawbacks – which need to be addressed and avoided before the technology is further embedded in global societies).

 

[daabido]

Hey Siri, play me my favourite music.
Now playing your favourites...
Siri, who is this (thinking I've never heard this song in my life)?
This is Insert Rando with Whackadoodle.
Siri, I don't like this song.
OK, here's what I found on the web for I don't like this song.

I've literally gone through and starred all my favourite music and it just started this last week. It has always been horrible thinking what I would like, but seems to have got even worse lately.

 

[HazeAndHahmahneez]

Just gimme my friggin' smart playlists on my iPhone. I still rely heavily on them in Music on my Mac. One of the best things they ever made. I have a playlist that mixes music by rating and the amount of time that's passed since I listened to a song (with the assumption that the longer it's been, the more likely I'll be willing to listen to a lower rated song). I've always been so annoyed that the functionality doesn't exist well on my phone.

Whoa whoa. Smart playlist? Give me a little guide here to this MacBook (only?) feature please? TIA!

Yeah. I don't get it either. I connected Apple Music, but it can't see my library or my playlists. I even tried Sharing a link for a playlist, and it couldn't read that either. So if I want more music like my Canciones alemanas playlist, I have to manually share a list of the 194 tracks or at least some subset thereof.

It seems like it's really on useful for creating playlists based on text descriptions, and that's not very interesting.

Great. I believe that this shows just how difficult Apple makes accessing any of their software offerings outside of being a tried and true user!!

Well, at least ****in' try it.

It's a bunch of fun and what Apple Intelligence should be:

"Create a playlist in Apple Music for the definitive college radio bands from 1978-1990. Popular is good but deep cuts and one hit wonders are great. Now take it one step further and give me the down tempo Late night DJ Version sprinkled with deep cuts."

I'd be satisfied if AI (Apple Intelligence) could do this as well.

Great idea of being nuanced with it. Keep it up.

 

[NLLV]

Well, at least ****in' try it.

It's a bunch of fun and what Apple Intelligence should be:

"Create a playlist in Apple Music for the definitive college radio bands from 1978-1990. Popular is good but deep cuts and one hit wonders are great. Now take it one step further and give me the down tempo Late night DJ Version sprinkled with deep cuts."

I'd be satisfied if AI (Apple Intelligence) could do this as well.

I agree worth trying, but you or sentiment or implication that Apple Intelligence should be just fun I think is not on base.

A lot of us want a robust proper ai.

Some if us are already paying for ai or even agentic ai and we know the possibilities for helping with work, research etc.

Fun isn’t what Apple promised.

 

[370zulu]

Still not interested in any AI integrations.

 

[im_to_hyper]

The API appears to be broken for ChatGPT 5.2 Pro with the Apple Music plugin.

I understand this is not a support ticket, it is simply notating a relevant fact.

EDIT: I swear I did not see the article update when I typed this. I thought this was the organizational tool I’ve been needing after playlists since 2001 when I saved up newspaper route money for a used Lime iBook G3 from a school sale to use with an iPod FireWire I thought I could use with my (lawn-mowing-funded) Sony Vaio with FireWire (but that wasn’t an option)

I will admit, I am curious as to which insights can be gained through my “temporal-acoustic” journeys.

I am especially curious about 1-2 songs I may be missing out on per playlist, especially classic ones and era-appropriate songs I might have overlooked.

My cognitive load in life does not leave me time for stuff like this; but having mathematically compatible tunes that may have been one-offs, songs that were never hits? I’ll gladly listen to the playlists while doing other stuff.

Rediscovering music from my childhood, (especially so chaotically in middle school after 9/11) should hopefully reconnect me to trauma-blocked positive memories as well (and maybe for others whose lives changed).

TL;DR at the moment it seems like a better Apple Music playlist —> Spotify migrator than anything else.

 

[p96]

It's a bunch of fun and what Apple Intelligence should be:

"Create a playlist in Apple Music for the definitive college radio bands from 1978-1990. Popular is good but deep cuts and one hit wonders are great. Now take it one step further and give me the down tempo Late night DJ Version sprinkled with deep cuts."

I'd be satisfied if AI (Apple Intelligence) could do this as well.

If that screenshot is what it generated, either your college radio station is basic or it didn’t understand the assignment.

My local one is a bit more experimental. There should be a “music store falling off a truck” somewhere in there.

 

[peejer]

Well, at least ****in' try it.

It's a bunch of fun and what Apple Intelligence should be:

"Create a playlist in Apple Music for the definitive college radio bands from 1978-1990. Popular is good but deep cuts and one hit wonders are great. Now take it one step further and give me the down tempo Late night DJ Version sprinkled with deep cuts."

I'd be satisfied if AI (Apple Intelligence) could do this as well.

Being that I'm in Memphis, I appreciate your profile name. I also appreciate your taste as I just created a list of British Jangly pop. Stone Roses, House Martins, Beautiful South, REM, Guadalcanal Diary, etc. Combining hits and deep cuts.

 

[Rafagon]

I don't know if I'm reading that right or not.

There's now a dedicated Apple Music app for ChatGPT.

So are you saying there's a separate Apple Music app solely for ChatGPT to use? Other than the Apple Music app that already existed?

 

[pauloregan]

Apple are becoming less likeable each now.

 

[TigerWoodsIV]

What's the point of connecting Apple Music when it can't actually access your music and make tailored recommendations?

Seriously... I just linked it earlier and saw this article mentioned it doesn't have access to read your library. That eliminates most of the point.

 

[ryanasimov]

I had it create a playlist based on the local rock station (I gave it the call letters) from my high school years in the early 80s. Nice nostalgia dopamine hit.

 

[bryn0076]

For a long time I’ve wanted to select my favourite playlists on the Apple TV music app and have it play the music video versions of the songs. The first thing I asked it to do was to analyse my faves playlist and create a music video only version of the playlist. It achieved very poor results. Has anyone successfully engineered an effective prompt to achieve this?

 

[im_to_hyper]

I don't know if I'm reading that right or not.

There's now a dedicated Apple Music app for ChatGPT.

So are you saying there's a separate Apple Music app solely for ChatGPT to use? Other than the Apple Music app that already existed?

Check a few screenshots up from where your comment landed, I posted a screenshot.

There is an Apple Music “applet” from within ChatGPT

 

[meridiusuk]

I am confused. What exactly is Apple locking down with bitrate?

If you subscribe to an Apple Music account, you can access Hi-Res Audio by flipping a setting that applies to both the Apple Music app and the Apple Music Classical app.

About lossless audio in Apple Music - Apple Support

Learn about lossless audio in Apple Music and how to turn it on or off for your device.

support.apple.com

If you subscribe to a Tidal account, you can access Hi-Res Audio within the Tidal Music app. Go to Settings > Audio & Playback and choose Max.

You can not stream hi res audio on device such as node icon or any other device for that matter, You can on either tidal and Qobuz get 24bit 196khz.

I understand that using Air Play limits resolution to 256kbp 44khz

Apple need to open it more for other device

There is plenty of articles about it.

 

[CatInABox]

No connection features here… I think from what I’ve read elsewhere it’s for US and ChatGPT subscribers first.

All the questions about why bother? Because Apple Music AI suggestions are pants.