Although there is an API (thank you Apple), the example for getting recently played music does not make it clear whether it will list each track. It implies only the related album is provided, but it could just be a bad example.

Seems like there’s a different way to query the user’s played tracks that only includes music downloaded to the user’s device. This must be what the iOS last.fm app does, as it can only scrobble music played from Apple Music that’s downloaded to your device.

A couple of Apple developer forum posts (1, 2) seem to indicate that you’re right, and the recently played endpoint only returns albums and stations, but not individual tracks.

Both of those options are pretty sub-optimal then.

Yep

Hi there, is it possible that Apple made some changes to their api as the history section mentions “Get historical information about which songs and stations the user played recently” (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applemusicapi/history)? If so, I would really like an Apple Music integration :).

Going by the example output, it still looks like it only lists albums, not individual tracks, unfortunately.

Gotcha. Thanks for looking into this again.

I think Apple changed this in the newest ios17 release, so this might be possible now? (quiteScrob, does this, even though it’s not picking up everything for me, but that might be a bug on their end, or just a limitation of iPhone / airPlay interactions with HomePods etc.

The current workaround I have is using AirScrobble, which tracks all songs to last.fm, and connect that to exist.io. It comes with other trade-offs (AirScrobble basically Shazam’s all songs playing using the new Shazam API, and that has some hiccups still)