Hi, I am trying to build an app that picks songs from the Apple Music catalogue at random and plays them. Having gone through all the trouble to understand how the API works, I am concluding that this is next to impossible since the only way to pick songs from the catalogue is either by searching from them with a search term or by using their id. Both of this defeats the idea of doing a random search.
I am not even able to filter the catalogue and then pick from the subset as that seems to always give the same list of songs in the same order. For example I tried finding 500 songs mapped to the genre "Rock" by cycling through 20 URL calls with dynamic offset. For some reason I only got about 230 back. Surely there must be more.
Anyone out there with some good ideas?
Would be hugely appreciated and you would be my hero forever!!
I am not even able to filter the catalogue and then pick from the subset as that seems to always give the same list of songs in the same order. For example I tried finding 500 songs mapped to the genre "Rock" by cycling through 20 URL calls with dynamic offset. For some reason I only got about 230 back. Surely there must be more.
Anyone out there with some good ideas?
Would be hugely appreciated and you would be my hero forever!!