Howdy,I'm hoping to start a conversation about getting access to live audio data for items playing from Apple Music.As background, we've been authoring and selling music visuals on OS X and other platforms for over 13 years. We are behind some of the visualizers that reside in iTunes to this day. Our latest product is an iOS app called Tunr, and it features a unique UI for audio/streaming services and protocols, unifying the user music experience in the way iTunes 1.0 set out to do -- most importantly, we seek to pull multiple music sources under a single roof and do it in the context of mobile and streaming. For easier reference, grab Tunr from the app store and play with it.As we rollout Tunr, we're getting requests to add support for Apple Music. MusicKit, like other ReST interfaces that we support (SoundCloud, Spotify, iHeartRadio, etc), fits into our model by design. However, because MusicKit requires playback through MPMusicPlayerController, there isn't a way to tap into the live audio/PCM samples (so that the user sees Tunr's realtime visuals react to the currently playing audio). In contrast, for example, the Spotify SDK has its own player API but exposes an AUGraph, allowing Tunr to call AudioUnitAddRenderNotify() where we can read the PCM data for visualization.In general, not offering access to raw PCM data traces back to DRM policies originating in the 2000s. I also submit that the way apps like Tunr use live audio data is disjoint from the DRM politics and debate. However, in practice, we all know it's hard to disentangle the two, and that’s likely why AVPlayer also never had a live audio tap. For this reason, we had to develop our own player for Tunr.As a proposed solution, I’d like to suggest that MPMediaPlayback be extended such that a callback gets downsampled audio PCM data to, say, 5k-11k samples/sec. This sample rate is too low for it to be "ripped" but would be sufficient for rendering visualizations.In any case, I at least wanted to stimulate conversation on this topic. Alternatively, it would be to get access to the audio stream to decode and play for a given Apple music item, but I'm pretty sure that's a non-starter.Suggestions? Thoughts? Other ideas?Andy O'MearaSoundSpectrum CTO

I'm getting a variety of errors when I call prepareToPlay on the MPMusicPlayerController. Sometimes they happen, sometimes they don't. I'm trying to play songs from the Apple Music service. When I don't get the errors, it plays just fine. I have iOS v13.5.1 on my iPhone Xs and I'm using Xcode 11.5. This is my code: let applicationMusicPlayer = MPMusicPlayerController.applicationMusicPlayer applicationMusicPlayer.setQueue(with: [trackID]) applicationMusicPlayer.prepareToPlay(completionHandler:{ error in if let error = error { print(error.localizedDescription) return } DispatchQueue.main.async{ applicationMusicPlayer.play() } } These are the various errors I'm getting: [SDKPlayback] Failed to prepareToPlay error: Error Domain=MPMusicPlayerControllerErrorDomain Code=2 "Queue was interrupted by another queue" UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=Queue was interrupted by another queue} [SDKPlayback] Failed to prepareToPlay error: Error Domain=MPMusicPlayerControllerErrorDomain Code=9 "Preparing queue timed out" UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=Preparing queue timed out} [SDKPlayback] Failed to prepareToPlay error: Error Domain=MPMusicPlayerControllerErrorDomain Code=6 "Failed to prepare to play" UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=Failed to prepare to play} [SDKPlayback] applicationQueuePlayer _establishConnectionIfNeeded timeout [ping did not pong]

The MusicKit video states that you just enable "MusicKit" in your application identifier and "you're done!" Ok, so I did that, and I'm seeing the following error when trying to run a song query: [DataRequesting] Failed retrieving MusicKit tokens: Error Domain=ICErrorDomain Code=-8200 "Media API Token Service's response was invalid (status code: Unauthorized (401))." UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=Media API Token Service's response was invalid (status code: Unauthorized (401))., NSUnderlyingError=0x6000023a0c60 {Error Domain=AMSErrorDomain Code=301 "Invalid Status Code" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Invalid Status Code, AMSURL=https://sf-api-token-service.itunes.apple.com/apiToken?REDACTED, AMSStatusCode=401, AMSServerPayload={ status = verificationFailure; }, NSLocalizedFailureReason=The response has an invalid status code}}}. Throwing .developerTokenRequestFailed. Is this just broken on Apple's side? Is there some other magic string that needs to be added to the plist other than NSAppleMusicUsageDescription?

Hey there! I'm trying to use MusicDataRequest to fetch the contents of a user's library. Most of the documented endpoints I've tried seem to be working as expected, but the /me/library/artists and /me/library/albums endpoints are consistenty giving me a 500 Upstream Service Error. Here's an example of my code, and the resulting error: let url = URL(string: "https://api.music.apple.com/v1/me/library/albums")! let request = MusicDataRequest(urlRequest: URLRequest(url: url)) do { let response = try await request.response()     let string = String(data: response.data, encoding: .utf8)!     print("success: \(string)") } catch {     print("error: \(error)") } MusicDataRequest.Error(   status: 500,   code: 50001,   title: "Upstream Service Error",   detailText: "Error fetching library content",   id: "5OFXMJAGNU2WCTDKNAYYP4BJXI",   originalResponse: MusicDataResponse(    data: 153 bytes,    urlResponse: <NSHTTPURLResponse: 0x0000000280f04dc0>   ) ) If I replace /albums with /songs or /playlists in the above code everything works as expected. Is there something I'm missing from the albums and artists requests? Or is this a bug with the API?

I'm slowly learning the new MusicKit beta for swift. I've learned to successfully retrieve tracks of type Song using MusicDataRequest, using the following: ... let countryCode = try await MusicDataRequest.currentCountryCode if let url = URL(string: "https://api.music.apple.com/v1/catalog/\(countryCode)/songs?filter[isrc]=\(isrc)") {   let dataRequest = MusicDataRequest(urlRequest: URLRequest(url: url))   let dataResponse = try await dataRequest.response() ... However, when I decode the data, there does not seem to be any album information that I can see. I've tried adding includes=albums to the URL, but I don't think that's the right approach, because when I veiw the Song struct in MusicKit, I don't see a reference to an Album type anywhere. Any advice on how to retrieve the album information would be most appreciated. Thanks.

I really love Quartz Composer from Apple which is a quite old app, not updated for years. It works well on my 2015 mid MacBook Pro, but not on new M1 iMac. Does anyone know how to run this great app on my new machine? Thank you!

Is there a way to get the current queue items from an MPMusicPlayerController? I need to know when the items I've set to the queue finish playing completely but cannot find any way to do this. I am not using MusicKit but setting the queue via play parameters. From what I can tell so far, after the queue finishes playing, it pauses and resets to the first item in the queue. So even after playback is done, there is no way to know that it finished on its own.

Hello, I am wondering how one can play music videos (with the actual video playing) with the ApplicationMusicPlayer using MusicKit for Swift? There is not much documentation on this, so any help would be appreciated.

I want to get playCount of an user library song from Apple Music API. Or is there any other way that I can access that how many times they have played a specific song.

CVPixelBuffer.h defines kCVPixelFormatType_420YpCbCr8BiPlanarVideoRange = '420v', /* Bi-Planar Component Y'CbCr 8-bit 4:2:0, video-range (luma=[16,235] chroma=[16,240]). baseAddr points to a big-endian CVPlanarPixelBufferInfo_YCbCrBiPlanar struct */ kCVPixelFormatType_420YpCbCr10BiPlanarVideoRange = 'x420', /* 2 plane YCbCr10 4:2:0, each 10 bits in the MSBs of 16bits, video-range (luma=[64,940] chroma=[64,960]) */ But when I set above format camera output, and I find the output pixelbuffer's value is exceed the range.I can see [0 -255] for 420YpCbCr8BiPlanarVideoRange and [0,1023] for 420YpCbCr10BiPlanarVideoRange Is it a bug or something wrong of the output?If it is not how can I choose the correct matrix transfer the yuv data to rgb?

I am trying to follow along with this in order to auto generate my dev token on requests to MusicKit, but I am getting an error about by identifier, which was configured Link: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/musickit/using-automatic-token-generation-for-apple-music-api Error: 2022-04-26 14:12:06.353589-0400 [6885:431407] [DataRequesting] Failed retrieving developer token: Error Domain=ICErrorDomain Code=-8200 "Media API Token Service responded with status code: Not Found (404). This suggests that "<set_bundle_ID>" was likely not registered as a valid client identifier." UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=Media API Token Service responded with status code: Not Found (404). This suggests that "<set_bundle_ID>" was likely not registered as a valid client identifier., NSUnderlyingError=0x2827669a0 {Error Domain=AMSErrorDomain Code=301 "Invalid Status Code" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Invalid Status Code, AMSURL=https://sf-api-token-service.itunes.apple.com/apiToken?REDACTED, AMSStatusCode=404, AMSServerPayload={     message = "Client not found";     status = 40402; }, NSLocalizedFailureReason=The response has an invalid status code}}}. Throwing .developerTokenRequestFailed. error getting token

I'm using musickit on iOS 15 in my APP. I want to detect user change the player's play state when app enters the background.

I am using AVFoundation for live camera view. I can get my device from the current video input (of type AVCaptureDeviceInput) like: let device = videoInput.device The device's active format has a isPortraitEffectSupported. How can I set the Portrait Effect on and off in live camera view? I setup the camera like this: private var videoInput: AVCaptureDeviceInput! private let session = AVCaptureSession() private(set) var isSessionRunning = false private var renderingEnabled = true private let videoDataOutput = AVCaptureVideoDataOutput() private let photoOutput = AVCapturePhotoOutput() private(set) var cameraPosition: AVCaptureDevice.Position = .front func configureSession() { sessionQueue.async { [weak self] in guard let strongSelf = self else { return } if strongSelf.setupResult != .success { return } let defaultVideoDevice: AVCaptureDevice? = strongSelf.videoDeviceDiscoverySession.devices.first(where: {$0.position == strongSelf.cameraPosition}) guard let videoDevice = defaultVideoDevice else { print("Could not find any video device") strongSelf.setupResult = .configurationFailed return } do { strongSelf.videoInput = try AVCaptureDeviceInput(device: videoDevice) } catch { print("Could not create video device input: \(error)") strongSelf.setupResult = .configurationFailed return } strongSelf.session.beginConfiguration() strongSelf.session.sessionPreset = AVCaptureSession.Preset.photo // Add a video input. guard strongSelf.session.canAddInput(strongSelf.videoInput) else { print("Could not add video device input to the session") strongSelf.setupResult = .configurationFailed strongSelf.session.commitConfiguration() return } strongSelf.session.addInput(strongSelf.videoInput) // Add a video data output if strongSelf.session.canAddOutput(strongSelf.videoDataOutput) { strongSelf.session.addOutput(strongSelf.videoDataOutput) strongSelf.videoDataOutput.videoSettings = [kCVPixelBufferPixelFormatTypeKey as String: Int(kCVPixelFormatType_32BGRA)] strongSelf.videoDataOutput.setSampleBufferDelegate(self, queue: strongSelf.dataOutputQueue) } else { print("Could not add video data output to the session") strongSelf.setupResult = .configurationFailed strongSelf.session.commitConfiguration() return } // Add photo output if strongSelf.session.canAddOutput(strongSelf.photoOutput) { strongSelf.session.addOutput(strongSelf.photoOutput) strongSelf.photoOutput.isHighResolutionCaptureEnabled = true } else { print("Could not add photo output to the session") strongSelf.setupResult = .configurationFailed strongSelf.session.commitConfiguration() return } strongSelf.session.commitConfiguration() } } func prepareSession(completion: @escaping (SessionSetupResult) -&gt; Void) { sessionQueue.async { [weak self] in guard let strongSelf = self else { return } switch strongSelf.setupResult { case .success: strongSelf.addObservers() if strongSelf.photoOutput.isDepthDataDeliverySupported { strongSelf.photoOutput.isDepthDataDeliveryEnabled = true } if let photoOrientation = AVCaptureVideoOrientation(interfaceOrientation: interfaceOrientation) { if let unwrappedPhotoOutputConnection = strongSelf.photoOutput.connection(with: .video) { unwrappedPhotoOutputConnection.videoOrientation = photoOrientation } } strongSelf.dataOutputQueue.async { strongSelf.renderingEnabled = true } strongSelf.session.startRunning() strongSelf.isSessionRunning = strongSelf.session.isRunning strongSelf.mainQueue.async { strongSelf.previewView.videoPreviewLayer.session = strongSelf.session } completion(strongSelf.setupResult) default: completion(strongSelf.setupResult) } } } Then to I set isPortraitEffectsMatteDeliveryEnabled like this: func setPortraitAffectActive(_ state: Bool) { sessionQueue.async { [weak self] in guard let strongSelf = self else { return } if strongSelf.photoOutput.isPortraitEffectsMatteDeliverySupported { strongSelf.photoOutput.isPortraitEffectsMatteDeliveryEnabled = state } } } However, I don't see any Portrait Effect in the live camera view! Any ideas why?

I'm very excited about the new MusicLibrary API, but after a couple of days of playing around with it, I have to say that I find the implementation of filtering MusicLibraryRequests a little confusing. MPMediaQuery has a fairly extensive list of predicates that can be applied, including string and persistentID comparisons for artist, album artist genre, and more. It also lets you filter on an item’s title. MusicLibraryRequests let you filter on the item’s ID, or on its MusicKit Artist and Genre relationships. To me, this seems like it adds an extra step.  With an MPMediaQuery, if I wanted to fetch every album by a given artist, I’d apply an MPMediaPropertyPredicate looking at MPMediaItemPropertyAlbumArtist and compare the string. It was also easy to change the MPMediaPredicateComparison to .contains to match more widely. If I wanted to surface albums by “Aesop Rock” or “Aesop Rock & Blockhead,” I could use that. In the MusicLibraryRequest implementation, it looks like I need to perform a MusicLibraryRequest<Artist> first in order to get the Artist objects. There’s no filter for the name property, so if I don’t have their IDs, I’ve got to use filter(text:). From there, I can take the results of that request and apply them to my MusicLibraryRequest<Album> using the filter(matching:memberOf) function.  I could use filter(text:) on the MusicLibraryRequest<Album>, but that filters across multiple properties (title and artistName?) and is less precise than defining the actual property I want to match against. I think my ideal version of the MusicLibraryRequest API would offer something like filter(matching:equalTo:) or filter(matching:contains:) that worked off of KeyPaths rather than relationships. That seems more intuitive to me. I’m not saying we need every property from every filterable MPMediaItemProperty key, but I’d love to be able to do it on title, artistName, and other common metadata. That might look something like: filter(matching: \.title, contains: “Abbey Road”) filter(matching: \.artistName, equalTo: “Between The Buried And Me”) I noticed that filter(text:) is case insensitive, which is awesome, and something I’ve wanted for a long time in MPMediaPropertyPredicate. As a bonus, it would be great if a KeyPath based filter API supported a case sensitivity flag. This is less of a problem when dealing with Apple Music catalog content, but users’ libraries are a harsh environment, and you might have an artist “Between The Buried And Me” and one called “Between the Buried and Me.” It would be great to get albums from both with something like: filter(matching: \.artistName, equalTo: “Between The Buried And Me”, caseSensitive: false)  I've submitted the above as FB10185685. I also submitted another feedback this morning regarding filter(text:) and repeating text as FB10184823. My last wishlist item for this API (for the time being!) is exposing the MPMediaItemPropertyAlbumPersistentID as an available filter attribute. I know, I know… hear me out. If you take a look at the other thread I made today, you’ll see that due to missing metadata in MusicKit, I still have some use cases where I need to be able to reference an MPMediaItem and might need to fetch its containing MPMediaItemCollection to get at other tracks on the album. It would be nice to seamlessly be able to fetch the MPMediaItemCollection or the library Album using a shared identifier, especially when it comes to being able to play the album in MusicKit’s player rather than Media Player’s.  I've submitted that list bit as FB10185789 Thanks for bearing with my walls of text today. Keep up the great work!

As the summer continues, I have been diving deeper and deeper into MusicKit, largely with great results. A few issues have arisen that I've outlined here, feedbacks already filed and numbers included here. All of this happens on the lasted developer beta and latest Xcode beta. Thanks! FB10967343 - Setting the queue with library and non-library items at the same time doesn't work correctly In my app, I am working on a feature that lets a user shuffle songs from a collection of albums that may or may not be in their library. However, I’ve discovered an issue where the queue does not seem to work correctly when mixing these types. I’ve attempted to load ApplicationMusicPlayer by creating a Queue and to load applicationQueuePlayer using a MPMusicPlayerPlayParametersQueueDescriptor, but the same issue occurs each time. The queue is able to play songs from the same source, but if it’s been playing a library song and tries to move to a non-library song, the queue stops.  The first thing I do is pick random songs from each album, using a MusicLibraryRequest or a MusicCatalogResourceRequest as appropriate, then taking a randomElement() from the ensuing MusicItemCollection for the album.  I append each track to an array, which I then cast to MusicItemCollection so I’ve now got a MusicItemCollection consisting of the tracks I want. If I’m in MusicKit land, I simply set the queue as follows:  player.queue = ApplicationMusicPlayer.Queue(for: tracks) It takes a bit more doing in MediaPlayer, but in theory this should also work, right?    do {         let paramObjects = tracks.compactMap {             $0.playParameters         }         let params = try paramObjects.map({try JSONEncoder().encode($0)}) let dicts = try params.compactMap {               try JSONSerialization.jsonObject(with: $0, options: []) as? [String:Any]           }           let finalParams = dicts.compactMap {                 MPMusicPlayerPlayParameters(dictionary: $0)             } let descriptor = MPMusicPlayerPlayParametersQueueDescriptor(playParametersQueue: finalParams) mediaPlayer.setQueue(with: descriptor) } catch { print(error) } In either case, the following issue occurs: say that I end up with a queue made up of one library song, then one non-library song. The player will play just the first song, then it acts as if the queue has ended. Say that it has two non-library songs, then one library song. Just the two non-library songs play. Indeed, printing queue.entries shows just the number of items that were from the same source type. FB10967076 - Publishing changes from background thread error when inserting queue items When using the .insert method on ApplicationMusicPlayer.Queue on the last iOS 16 and Xcode betas, it returns a “Publishing changes from background thread” error even though the function I’m doing in is marked as a @MainActor and the stacktace indicates it was on the main thread. FB10967277 - song.with([.albums], preferredSource: .library) generates thousands of lines of EntityQueries in the console I’ve noticed that when using the preferredSource: .library when requesting additional properties on a library item creates ~6,000 of “EntityQuery” entries in the console, all in the span of a second. This doesn’t seem to be leading to any major performance issues, but it sure seems like something isn't right. let request = MusicLibraryRequest<Song>.init() do { let response = try await request.response() guard let song = response.items.first else { return } let songWithAlbums = try await song.with([.albums], preferredSource: .library) } catch { print(error) } generates the following output (except... 6,000 of them) 2022-07-31 13:02:07.729003-0400 MusicKitFutzing[9405:2192606] [EntityQuery] Finished fetching results in 0s 2022-07-31 13:02:07.729047-0400 MusicKitFutzing[9405:2192605] [EntityQuery] Finished executing query in 0.00100017s 2022-07-31 13:02:07.729202-0400 MusicKitFutzing[9405:2192611] [EntityQuery] Finished executing query in 0s 2022-07-31 13:02:07.729240-0400 MusicKitFutzing[9405:2192605] [EntityQuery] Finished fetching results in 0s

Hello, this is building off of another post in which several other posters and I had already attempted solving the issue in hacky ways. I am using MPMusicPlayerController.applicationQueuePlayer. My end goal here is to dynamically add items to the queue when it has ended based on my application's business logic. There is no way for me to know what these items will be when I am initially setting the queue. I have an updated implementation that seems to cover most edge cases, except for a glaringly obvious one – if there is just one item in the queue, and the user skips the track via MPRemoteCommandCenter (eg. lock screen), then it does not work. Currently, when I receive a MPMusicPlayerControllerPlaybackStateDidChange notification, I run this block: if player.playbackState == .paused,            player.currentPlaybackTime == 0,            player.indexOfNowPlayingItem == 0 {             EndOfQueueManager.handle()         } In the absence of a mechanism to detect the end of the queue from the framework, I would love to add the ability to add a target to MPRemoteCommand, like you can do for AVPlayer. I have tried to do exactly that, but it does not work: MPRemoteCommandCenter.shared().nextTrackCommand.addTarget { (event) -> MPRemoteCommandHandlerStatus in         if queue.count == 1 {             EndOfQueueManager.handle() }         return .success } I already have a functioning AVPlayer implementation that achieves my goal without any compromises or edge cases. I would be very disappointed if there is no way to do this with MPMusicPlayerController – being notified about the queue ending feels like a fairly rudimentary API hook.

Hi there, I have a related forum thread here and a Feedback Assistant ticket open, but this issue seems different. Sometime within the last 2-3 weeks, code related to MusicLibrary has stopped working. None of my code has changed. For example, the below two snippets used to work fine:  for track in newTracks {    try await MusicLibrary.shared.add(track, to: targetPlaylist)  } try await MusicLibrary.shared.edit(targetPlaylist, items: items) newTracks and items are both fetched using: try await targetPlaylist.with(.tracks, preferredSource: .catalog).tracks Using preferredSource: .catalog was a workaround used to address the issue in the aforementioned post above. All iOS 16 capable functions are decorated with: @available(iOS 16, *) or in an if block: if #available(iOS 16, *) {... What's happening is that the following is showing up in the console: 2022-11-28 23:31:11.279648+0700 MyApp[38653:6736450] [core] Attempted to register account monitor for types client is not authorized to access: {(     "com.apple.account.iTunesStore" )} 2022-11-28 23:31:11.279718+0700 MyApp[38653:6736450] [Default] <ICUserIdentityStoreACAccountBackend: 0x282adb520> Failed to register for account monitoring. err=Error Domain=com.apple.accounts Code=7 "(null)" 2022-11-28 23:31:11.279758+0700 MyApp[38653:6736450] [Default] ICUserIdentity - Unable to retrieve DSID for userIdentity=<ICUserIdentity 0x2806eb120: [Active Account: <unresolved>]> - error=Error Domain=com.apple.accounts Code=7 "(null)" These errors are not caught by a do/catch block, but I assume they are related to the issue, and I believe they have to do with MyApp trying to access things that Music Kit thinks it's not supposed to. For example, if MyApp attempts to work with a playlist that it did not create, errors would be expected, thrown errors. The thing is that I know I'm working with resources that are created by MyApp. In fact, in trying to test this, I just tried to create a playlist with the below, and the same behavior is occurring: @available(iOS 16, *) func createPlaylist2(name: String, description: String) async -> MusicKit.Playlist? {     do {         Logger.log(.info, "Creating Playlist: \(name)")         Logger.log(.shrug, "Does this work?")         let newPlaylist = try await MusicLibrary.shared.createPlaylist(name: name, description: description) // <= Things stop here!         Logger.log(.success, "New playlist created: \(newPlaylist)") // <= this isn't logged.         return newPlaylist // <= nothing is returned     } catch {         Logger.log(.error, "Could not create new playlist: \(error)") // <= no error logged.     }     return nil } The result is: 2022-11-29 00:15:01.875064+0700 MyApp[38794:6760471] [core] Attempted to register account monitor for types client is not authorized to access: {(     "com.apple.account.iTunesStore" )} 2022-11-29 00:15:01.875372+0700 MyApp[38794:6760471] [Default] <ICUserIdentityStoreACAccountBackend: 0x283005720> Failed to register for account monitoring. err=Error Domain=com.apple.accounts Code=7 "(null)" 2022-11-29 00:15:01.876677+0700 MyApp[38794:6760323] [EntityQuery] Finished executing query in 0.000999928s 2022-11-29 00:15:01.889055+0700 MyApp[38794:6760323] [EntityQuery] Finished fetching results in 0.0120001s 2022-11-29 00:15:01.891235+0700 MyApp[38794:6760329] [core] Attempted to register account monitor for types client is not authorized to access: {(     "com.apple.account.iTunesStore" )} 2022-11-29 00:15:01.891684+0700 MyApp[38794:6760329] [Default] <ICUserIdentityStoreACAccountBackend: 0x283005720> Failed to register for account monitoring. err=Error Domain=com.apple.accounts Code=7 "(null)" 📘 Creating Playlist: TEST PLAYLIST 🤷🏻‍♀️ Does this work? 2022-11-29 00:15:06.697374+0700 MyApp[38794:6760329] [] nw_path_necp_check_for_updates Failed to copy updated result (22) What's really nasty is that errors are not thrown, so they can't be caught and handled in a catch block. I know that iOS 16.1 got released around the end of October, but I really don't know what's going on here. The behavior is showing up in both prod and when testing locally. Any help would be most appreciated. @JoeKhun: Did I miss the memo?

Hi all,  Apple dropping on-going development for FireWire devices that were supported with the Core Audio driver standard is a catastrophe for a lot of struggling musicians who need to both keep up to date on security updates that come with new OS releases, and continue to utilise their hard earned investments in very expensive and still pristine audio devices that have been reduced to e-waste by Apple's seemingly tone-deaf ignorance in the cries for on-going support.  I have one of said audio devices, and I'd like to keep using it while keeping my 2019 Intel Mac Book Pro up to date with the latest security updates and OS features.  Probably not the first time you gurus have had someone make the logical leap leading to a request for something like this, but I was wondering if it might be somehow possible of shoe-horning the code used in previous versions of Mac OS that allowed the Mac to speak with the audio features of such devices to run inside the Ventura version of the OS.  Would it possible? Would it involve a lot of work? I don't think I'd be the only person willing to pay for a third party application or utility that restored this functionality. There has to be 100's of thousands of people who would be happy to spare some cash to stop their multi-thousand dollar investment in gear to be so thoughtlessly resigned to the scrap heap.  Any comments or layman-friendly explanations as to why this couldn’t happen would be gratefully received!  Thanks,  em

Can I officially use the ScreenCaptureKit framework without worrying that it contains some bugs or may be exposed to future changes?

I'm making a request to get 10 artists with their top songs at once, but for some artists it will always fail with a 504. The response is also in HTML which leads to a decoding error. This is my code var request = MusicCatalogResourceRequest<Artist>(matching: \.id, memberOf: ids) request.properties = properties let response = try await request.response() where ids is MusicItemId. Below I have an input which will always fail 100% of the time, even when retried. 10 elements  - 0 : "51639"  - 1 : "331584"  - 2 : "120199"  - 3 : "45058"  - 4 : "284786497"  - 5 : "44984"  - 6 : "37299"  - 7 : "518462"  - 8 : "39525"  - 9 : "73568" Example response: [DataRequesting] Failed to parse body of response with status code Unknown (504):  <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head>   <style>     body {       font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "HelveticaNeue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;       font-size: 15px;       font-weight: 200;       line-height: 20px;       color: #4c4c4c;       text-align: center;     }     .section {       margin-top: 50px;     }   </style> </head> <body> <div class="section">   <h1>&#63743;</h1>   <h3>Gateway Timeout</h3>   <p>Correlation Key: WFRI6Q5HXAUJYXGNRKQ6YTBYIM</p> </div> </body> </html> I have also tried batching these into 2 requests of 5 artists instead of 1 request of 10 artists which still fails. However, I do have sets of 10 artists that work fine. Anyone know why?