Choose from Menu
Presents a menu and runs different actions based on which menu item was chosen.
Open a genre playlist
Opens the curated playlists for each genre page in Apple Music (formerly A-List playlists).
Actions Used
Open URLs
Opens URLs passed into the action in Safari (or the corresponding app if it’s a deep link).
Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Open%20a%20genre%20playlist
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Open%20a%20genre%20playlist
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Open a genre playlist”
end tell
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Open Mood playlists
Opens the curated pages of playlists for various Moods included in Apple Music.
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.
Open Apple Music TV
Opens the deep link into Apple Music TV, immediately starting the currently-playing music videos.
Play Jazz radio
Presents a list of Jazz radio stations on Apple Music, then opens the link to immediately start playing the station.
Explore Apple Music hosts
Presents a playlist of Apple Music host pages and opens the deep link into that section of the Music app.
Play Apple Music 1
Plays the main curated radio station for Apple Music, previously known as Beats 1.
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Listen to Page
Speaks the current page from Safari out loud; uses Listen to Page on iOS and Speak Text on macOS.
Browse for me
Asks you to enter a query, then passes it to Arc Search with “Browse for me” enabled to collect links and summarize results automatically.
Play Apple Music Hits
Opens the Apple Music Hits radio station that plays top tracks from the service (as opposed to the main Apple Music 1 channel).
Get podcast show slug
Accesses the Transistor API to retrieve your account data, looks at first show, then retrieves the slug from its attributes – copy it and paste it into your other shortcuts.
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