Hello,
I have been working on vibe coding an NVDA add-on for the Apple Music app on windows. I am not sure of the best place to share this sort of thing, as it feels weird to try putting it in the add-on store. I've only tested on two systems (1 Win 10, and 1 Win 11.)
The add-on does the following:
seek left and right now moves in more than the ridiculous default of what feels like 1 second intervals. You can configure the amount in settings. Control alt left and right arrows for small seek, add shift for larger seek.
"""Suppresses speech of track numbers.
Enter plays a song while in a playlist.
Control up and down now adjust volume while in a playlist.
NVDA shift l moves focus to song list if there is one on screen. For example, if you are in a playlist but focus has moved to the play button, press this to jump back to the list of songs
Song name is reported along with the title when pressing insert t
I have added the following hot keys. Apple in theory has hot keys for many of these things, but they stopped working for me a long time ago.
Navigation: alt n
Home: alt h
playlists: alt p (then arrow down to find your playlist)
Radio: alt r
Library: alt l then arrow down to select artists or albums Etc.
Show or hide lyrics: control shift l
Note that some of these hot keys seem to get tripped up if lyrics are on screen.
Things are not perfect, but I feel less angry when using Apple Music, so I'll call it a win. Take it for a spin if you like, but be aware of the risks involved in installing a vibe coded add-on provided by a stranger over the internet.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/46wc00xsubsyzzspa21ak/appleMusicEnhanced.nvda-addon?rlkey=by6iqlngojhsvwfi4auw48t00&dl=1
Keith
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Great idea, you should put it on Github
I still have not transitioned to the apple Music app yet on windows. I don't like that they separate out the playing of music to another process, so if you close it it keeps playing. You should add a global keyboard shortcut to exit that thing.
Great idea
This sounds like a great idea!
I'm still using iTunes mainly because of the simpler hotkeys and stuff (I prefer to just hit enter to play a song).