Glass for Apple Music

Control Apple Music from your Stream Deck on macOS, with experimental support for Windows. Keys show the real playback state, and the icons are rendered as glass over the blurred artwork of the album that's playing, spread across your whole deck.

Keys

Play/Pause, Next, Previous, Shuffle and Repeat

Now Playing: album artwork with live progress

Volume: up, down, mute or set a level. Hold to keep adjusting. Controls Apple Music, not your system volume

Favorite: favorite the current song

Play Playlist: start a playlist from your library

Add to Playlist: add the current song to a playlist, or remove it (macOS)

Sleep Timer: pause playback after 5 minutes to 2 hours

Dials (Stream Deck +)

Multimedia: turn for volume or tracks, push to play/pause, push and turn to seek

Browse Playlists: turn to browse your playlists, push to play

Infobar (Stream Deck Neo)

Artwork, title and progress of the current song

Available in English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Korean and Chinese.

Requirements Stream Deck 7.6 or later. macOS 14 or later with the Music app. On macOS, allow Stream Deck to control Music when asked.

Windows 10/11 with Apple Music from the Microsoft Store is supported experimentally. Some features may not work as expected yet.

Made with love, late nights and a bit of AI. AI helped write the code, this description and the artwork in the screenshots. Every feature was designed and reviewed by me.

Apple Music is a trademark of Apple Inc. This plugin is not affiliated with Apple.

Two new dials for Stream Deck +, a calmer and quicker deck, and a Windows fix.

New

Scrub: turn to move through the song that's playing. Turn slowly for single seconds, spin to cross the whole song. Tap the timeline to jump there, hold it to restart the song, push to play or pause.

Browse Songs (macOS): turn to scroll through the playlist that's playing, with artwork, title and artist on the touch strip. Push to play the song you picked; Apple Music continues with the playlist from there.

When a new album starts, the backdrop behind your keys and touch strip fades into its colours.

Improved

On macOS, keys respond as soon as the song changes or you play or pause in Apple Music.

All keys and dials switch at the same moment, and redraw several times faster.

The glass looks the same on every key.

Fixed

Windows: Shuffle and Repeat could stop working until the plugin restarted. They now keep working when Apple Music rebuilds its player bar.

Windows: the plugin keeps running when its helper can't start; the action shows an alert instead.

When a command fails, the key returns to how it was.

Good to know

Live radio has no timeline; the Scrub dial shows "Live".

With shuffle on, Browse Songs shows the playlist in its own order.

Windows support is still experimental, including shuffle, repeat and scrubbing. Browse Songs is macOS only.

Found a bug or have an idea? Let me know at github.com/alexhensen/Glass.