Apple Music MCP server

mcp-apple-music 🎵

mcp-name: io.github.Cifero74/mcp-apple-music

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that gives Claude full access to your Apple Music account — search the catalog, browse your personal library, manage playlists, and explore your listening history and recommendations.

Ask Claude things like:

- "Based on what I've been listening to lately, recommend 15 songs I don't have yet and add them to a new playlist"

- "Show me all my playlists and tell me which artists appear most"

- "Search for albums by Nick Cave and add my three favourites to a playlist called Dark Picks"

Features

Requirements

• Python 3.10+
• uv (recommended) or pip
• An Apple Developer account (free tier is fine) with a MusicKit key
• An active Apple Music subscription

Setup

1. Create a MusicKit Key

1. Go to developer.apple.com → Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles
2. Under Keys, click + to create a new key
3. Give it any name, enable MusicKit, and click Continue → Register
4. Download the .p8 file — you can only download it once, keep it safe!
5. Note your Key ID (e.g. ABC123DEF4) and your Team ID (found under Membership Details)

⚠️ The Key ID is the alphanumeric code shown next to the key name — not the filename of the .p8 file.

2. Clone and install

git clone https://github.com/marioinghilleri/mcp-apple-music
cd mcp-apple-music

# with uv (recommended)
uv sync

# or with pip
pip install -e .

3. Run the one-time setup wizard

# with uv
uv run mcp-apple-music-setup

# or directly
python -m mcp_apple_music.setup

The wizard will ask for your Team ID, Key ID, and the path to your .p8 file. It then opens a browser page where you click "Authorise Apple Music" — this uses Apple's official MusicKit JS to obtain your Music User Token, which is stored securely at ~/.config/mcp-apple-music/config.json (file permissions: 600).

4. Add to Claude Desktop

Open your Claude Desktop config:

macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claudedesktopconfig.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apple-music": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "--directory",
        "/absolute/path/to/mcp-apple-music",
        "mcp-apple-music"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop — you should see the apple-music tools available in the toolbar.

How it works

Apple Music requires two separate tokens:

• Developer Token — a JWT you sign locally with your .p8 private key. Valid up to 6 months; the server regenerates it automatically before expiry. Your key never leaves your machine.
• Music User Token — obtained once via MusicKit JS OAuth in the browser (the setup wizard handles this). Stored locally at ~/.config/mcp-apple-music/config.json.

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.