Is it possible to play Apple Music with this?

[Bla005-1]

I’m trying to play music from my iPhone to a rpi using python. I’ve been trying to find out how to use pymobiledevice and this seems like the most documented repo, but I still can’t find what I’m looking for. My questions are:

1. Can I play the music from my phone to the rpi over usb?
2. If so can I get the song title and album picture?

[doronz88]

If the file is stored locally on the device, then you can achieve this using the AfcService. Consider the following piece of code:

from pymobiledevice3.lockdown import LockdownClient
from pymobiledevice3.services.afc import AfcService

# connect to first detected usb device for afc (file transfer from /var/mobile/Media)
mp3_contents = AfcService(lockdown=LockdownClient()).get_file_contents('path/of/remote/file.mp3')

Then analyze the file on the local machine and do whatever with it.
If you need to traverse the directory tree first just use:

pymobiledevice3 afc shell

[doronz88]

I'm not familiar with the way Apple Music is stored on device, but I guess the locally downloaded files should be stored in there since this is the main way for iTunes to sync files with the device.

I'm not sure on which repo are referring, but I have pushed a fix for windows so the error shouldn't occur again.
For parsing the buffer you retrieved you can save it locally and open it using this tool:

https://sqlitebrowser.org/

[Bla005-1]

Thanks for all the help. It looks like you need a jailbroken phone to see the files so im going to look into other options. I tried updating and still get the error, ill attach it now.

[doronz88]

You should be able to access all this repository's features without having to jailbreak.
It seems you are updating from pip, but we haven't yet released a new version. Please pull recent version directly from git and install it locally:

python3 -m pip install --user -U -e .

[Bla005-1]

Sorry for the confusion, I meant you have to have a jailbroken phone to see the music files, I got this information from this forum https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/what-folder-is-itunes-music-stored-in-on-iphone.1985265/. Also I did try to install from git earlier but got a different error, I will post that later so you can fix it

[doronz88]

I see, thanks for updating!