Open Apple Music Essentials
Opens the Apple Music curator page for Essentials playlists of the top tracks from popular artists – great for playing across an artist’s discography instead of picking an album.
Actions
Open URLs
Opens URLs passed into the action in Safari (or the corresponding app if it’s a deep link).
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Open Apple Music TV
Opens the deep link into Apple Music TV, immediately starting the currently-playing music videos.
Play my Favorites mix
Plays the automatic Favorites Mix curated by Apple Music for you, updated Mondays.
Play Discovery station
Plays Apple Music’s newest “Discovery” station that plays curated tracks from outside your library or playlists.
Open the Boiler Room
Opens the editor page in Apple Music for the Boiler Room, a series of shows for underground dance music with a webam showing the set.
Explore Apple Music hosts
Presents a playlist of Apple Music host pages and opens the deep link into that section of the Music app.
Quick play
Finds 25 random songs from the last 12 weeks and starts playing it on shuffle.
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Open%20Apple%20Music%20Essentials
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Open%20Apple%20Music%20Essentials
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Open Apple Music Essentials”
end tell
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