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caleb531 / play-song

An Alfred workflow for quickly and easily playing music in the Apple Music app
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Workflow plays song/artist randomly instead of what was requested #68

Closed kingstonstation closed 9 months ago

kingstonstation commented 1 year ago

Hey, this workflow seems straightforward and I'm sure it's working great for many others.

But, so far, every time I've tried it, it will just randomly play some song from my Library...but not the one I'm asking for. It performs the same way when I try to play a particular artist.

Is there something I'm missing?

caleb531 commented 1 year ago

@kingstonstation Oh, that's odd. I will try my best to help you solve this!

Which keyword are you using? Just playsong, or any others? How are you actioning the result? By pressing Enter? Are you holding down any modifier keys? I ask some of these questions because I wonder if you might be using any other applications with key bindings that conflict with what you are trying to do (e.g. I use Keyboard Maestro alongside Alfred for most of my power-user keyboarding).

I'm assuming you're using the Apple Music app that replaced iTunes starting in macOS Catalina. So my suggestions will be specific to that.

First, I would suggest making sure that Shuffle is disabled (from the menubar, Controls > Shuffle > Off).

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Secondly, please make sure that you disable the Autoplay mode that was added in recent version of the Apple Music app (see screenshot).

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caleb531 commented 1 year ago

@kingstonstation Just wanted to follow up: can you please provide the details I asked for above? Have you tried any of my suggestions?

caleb531 commented 9 months ago

Closing this issue due to inactivity. @kingstonstation if you happen to have time to try my instructions above and still need help, let me know and I can reopen.