Your AI agent is the DJ.

Ask your AI agent for music. Music MCP plays it from Apple Music, right on your Mac.

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Free · no account, no tracking · macOS 14 or later · checked by Apple · updates itself · direct download is version 1.4.17

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Set up in a minute

1. Download and open. Move Music MCP to Applications and open it. It lives in the menu bar and has no Dock icon. Choose Set Up Apple Music and allow access.
2. Connect your AI. Under Connect Your AI, click Copy Setup Prompt and paste it into your agent. It adds Music MCP to its own settings.
3. Ask for music. Tell your agent what you're in the mood for, for example “something calm for a late evening”.

Or add it by hand. Music MCP is a local MCP server (Model Context Protocol) that AI apps start as a command; it needs no token and no account. The path has no space in it, so it also works in apps that take the command as one line. (A copy installed before version 1.4.12 may still be named differently: Manual Setup in the panel has the commands with its path.)

Claude Code

claude mcp add --scope user music-mcp -- '/Applications/MusicMCP.app/Contents/MacOS/MusicMCP' --stdio

Codex CLI

codex mcp add music-mcp -- '/Applications/MusicMCP.app/Contents/MacOS/MusicMCP' --stdio

Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, Gemini CLI and other apps with an mcpServers config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "music-mcp": {
      "command": "/Applications/MusicMCP.app/Contents/MacOS/MusicMCP",
      "args": [
        "--stdio"
      ]
    }
  }
}

What your agent can do

Music MCP gives your agent 23 tools. Reading your library and changing it are each off until you allow them.

• search_catalog Searches Apple Music for songs, albums, artists, playlists and radio stations; several names in one call.
• artist_info An artist's top songs, latest releases and similar artists.
• album_songs The songs of an album.
• charts The most-played songs right now in the user's country.
• play_songs Plays a list of songs now, or adds them to the queue.
• play_collection Plays an album, a playlist or a radio station.
• now_playing The song that's playing, its position and the playback state.
• get_queue The whole set: what played, what's playing and what's next, with its total length.
• edit_queue Jumps to a song in the queue, removes or moves songs, or clears it.
• playback Play, pause, next and previous.
• seek Jumps to a position in the song.
• sleep_timer Pauses the music after a number of minutes.
• set_modes Shuffle and repeat.
• set_note Gives the set a short name that shows in the panel.
• listening_history Recently played music, if the user shares it.
• listening_stats Most played songs and artists, and whether an artist is in the library, if the user shares it.
• search_library Searches the user's library, if the user shares it.
• library_playlists The user's playlists, if the user shares them.
• playlist_songs The songs of a playlist.
• create_playlist Saves a set as a new playlist, if the user allows changes.
• add_to_playlist Adds songs to the end of a playlist, if the user allows changes.
• add_to_library Adds songs or albums to the library, if the user allows changes.
• rate Loves or dislikes a song, if the user allows changes.

Questions

More answers and troubleshooting on the support page.

What you need

• A Mac with macOS 14 or later
• An Apple Music subscription to play songs
• An AI app that supports MCP servers

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