iTunes React Native

Access your iTunes library (iOS only)

Example project

For RN older than 0.40.0, use the release 0.4.2+ of this library

If you have questions, ask them on Twitter @kadiks

Installation

In the command line, first you need to install react-native-itunes:

npm install react-native-itunes --save

Permissions - iOS 10

• Add the key Privacy - Apple Music usage Description NSAppleMusicUsageDescription in your Info.plist with a description: $(PRODUCT_NAME) wants access to your Music library

Automatically link

With React Native 0.27+

react-native link react-native-itunes

With older versions of React Native

You need rnpm (npm install -g rnpm)

rnpm link react-native-itunes

Manually link

In XCode, in the project navigator, right click Libraries ➜ Add Files to [your project's name] Go to node_modules ➜ react-native-itunes and add the .xcodeproj file

In XCode, in the project navigator, select your project. Add the lib*.a from the react-native-itunes project to your project's Build Phases ➜ Link Binary With Libraries Click .xcodeproj file you added before in the project navigator and go the Build Settings tab. Make sure 'All' is toggled on (instead of 'Basic'). Look for Header Search Paths and make sure it contains both $(SRCROOT)/../react-native/React and $(SRCROOT)/../../React - mark both as recursive.

Run your project (Cmd+R)

Examples

Note: it works on the device (it even shows on the cloud Apple Music saved songs)

Get all tracks

import iTunes from 'react-native-itunes';

iTunes.getTracks().then((tracks) => {
  console.log(tracks);
});

Get all playlists

Beware, check other examples for better performances

import iTunes from 'react-native-itunes';

iTunes.getPlaylists().then(playlists => {
  console.log(playlists);
});

Play searched track

import iTunes from 'react-native-itunes';

iTunes.getTracks({
  query: {
    title: 'digital',
    albumArtist: 'daft',
  },
}).then((tracks) => {
  iTunes.playTracks(tracks)
    .then(res => {
      console.log('is playing');
    })
    .catch(err => {
      alert('err');
    });
});

More examples

Note: it works on the device (it even shows on the cloud Apple Music saved songs)

API

getArtists()

Returns [String] of artists

getAlbums()

Returns [TrackItem]

getCurrentPlayTime()

[DEPRECATED] use getCurrentTrack() instead

getCurrentTrack()

Returns TrackItem with additional properties: currentPlayTime and artwork

getPlaylists({ fields = [], query = {} })

Returns [PlaylistItem]

• fields: Array
  • name
  • tracks
  • playCount
• query: Object
  • name

getTracks({ fields = [], query = {}, type: '' })

Returns [TrackItem]

• fields: Array https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/MediaPlayer/Reference/MPMediaItem_ClassReference/
• query: Object
  • title
  • albumArtist
  • albumTitle
  • artist
  • genre
  • playlistName
• type: String
  • default to '' and will return songs
  • audiobooks will return the list of audiobooks
  • podcasts will return the list of podcasts

next()

playTrack(Track)

playTracks([Track])

pause()

previous()

seekTo(seconds)

PlaylistItem

• name
• playCount
• tracks: [TrackItem]

TrackItem

• albumArtist
• albumTitle
• duration (in seconds)
• genre
• playCount
• title

Links

• The Apple documentation on the MPMediaItem used: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/MediaPlayer/Reference/MPMediaItem_ClassReference/

  • If you need more info, check out those properties list and do not hesitate doing a pull request (PR) with your addition

Changelog

0.5.0

• Play list of searched items playTracks()
• Get current playing track getCurrentTrack()
• Play next item in playlist next()
• Play previous item in playlist previous()

0.4.5

Thanks to Haggai Shapira

• Get the current play time getCurrentPlayTime()
• Seek to functionality seekTo()

0.4.4

Thanks to kurokky

• Get all albums getAlbums()
• Get all artists getArtists()
• Get audiobooks and podcasts

0.4.2

• Field validation and conversion

0.4.0

• Get playlists

0.3.1

• Access artwork as base64

0.3.0

• Play track from TrackItem.title & TrackItem.albumTitle
• Play/Pause

0.2.0

• Query tracks
• Filter tracks
• Get specific fields

0.1.0

• Search all tracks

Roadmap

• Add tests
• Create a query builder function to be called from all public methods
• Refactor #getTracks to always return TrackItem.title & TrackItem.albumTitle
• Remove default artwork property in getAlbums() to avoid performances issues
• Change getArtists() to return [TrackItem] and not [String]
• Add same filtering capabilities from getTracks() to getAlbums() & getArtists()
• Remove playable capabilities all together (now with iOS11, it needs a new authorization process)
• Change all code and examples to ES6
• Change all code and examples to ES7 (async/await)
• Get playlist
• Query tracks from Apple Music #19

Player

• Play a searched item
• play()/pause()
• Play a list of searched items
• Play next item in playlist
• Play previous item in playlist

getTracks(params)

• Object [params.query={}]
• Object [params.fields={}]

Known bugs

Unplayable tracks

For some reasons some tracks are not playing while they can be searched. If you have a clue why, please share.

Playlist tracks

Some playlist tracks cannot be played. Maybe those which are not cached. Might be related to first bug, but the first bug does not through a warning Investigating to flag them as unplayable before getting an error...

Negative persistent IDs

Persistent IDs are uint64_t (unsigned long long), a basic conversion to int turn them into negative number.

Thanks to

Malone Hedges for the getPlaylists(). I discovered that some Apple Music songs are only available via playlists Gracias a Indesign Colombia for this PR that fixes a lot of obvious and preventable mistakes