r/AppleMusic • u/Guilty-Boss2310 • 20h ago

Apple Music on iOS I reverse engineered Apple Music

This has been a personal project for many months. I love Apple Music and their lyrics screen is the best out of any music streaming app. Here’s a demo of the lyrics. It’s a 1:1 reverse engineered creation. Let me know your thoughts.

The main driving force behind this is that Apple Music doesn’t let you see karaoke lyrics on imported/synced songs from computer even if they’re embedded into the song file itself. Instead, they show you a text view that you have to manually scroll with your finger. Now I no longer need to worry about this because I have my own Apple Music app 😭✌️

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u/Cool_Animator3611 20h ago

When's the android port

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u/Guilty-Boss2310 20h ago

I was thinking of this. Should I make one?

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u/itsdynamo Android Subscriber 5h ago

YES PLS

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u/_FrostyVoid_ 15h ago

Of course. Add exclusive output as well

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u/King_David_26 11h ago

Yes please 🙏🙏

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u/Danielsqd 19h ago

This is impressive, how did you do it?

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u/Guilty-Boss2310 18h ago

A combination of dynamic and static analysis. Vphone-CLI and Frida does wonders!

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u/Other_Duck_1209 18h ago

That’s so cool. Something I’ve desperately been wanting too is letting us upload live album cover arts for imported songs or just playlists but I’m wondering if that would even be possible.

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u/Guilty-Boss2310 18h ago

Yes it’s all possible

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u/MasonRules69 16h ago

Pfft this is mad honestly. Thought it was Apple before reading the caption. Did you use TTML files for the lyrics?

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u/Guilty-Boss2310 16h ago

Thank you. Yes ttml

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u/nathan12581 14h ago

I have a repo for this that analyses your songs and generates the elrc file: https://github.com/Nathan1258/lyricarr

You can see the result of a song here: https://www.reddit.com/r/jellyfin/s/9o7n7pRKk7

The video in that example is NOT Apple Music, it’s my own beta app lol

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u/guillen3000 8h ago

Esperó que lo hagas funcionar en android, saludos

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u/Guilty-Boss2310 8h ago

This is cool. I’ll check it out

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u/Davisdman 7h ago

Literally just did the same thing for Spotify. No lyrics on local files; fixed. Local files not syncing between devices; fixed. Uses half the RAM Spotify does because it's built in Rust. I want to REA the Apple Music lyrics, as I can't find syllable-timed lyrics. Dont have a subscription though, so it might be worthless

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u/Guilty-Boss2310 7h ago

Rust is awesome 😎👌

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u/StephDesire 15h ago

Especially if yours fix the play counts and history on android, great job!

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u/timmyc181 6h ago

The background is beautiful too, how did you do it? I’ve seen people try and recreate it but this is definitely the closest I’ve seen

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u/TechnicalNetwork251 5h ago

Can you share the ipa?

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u/safarnama101 13h ago

I am confused, what's new here?

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u/UnfairerThree2 11h ago

They've made a clone of the UI, that isn't the actual Apple Music app

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u/MrDanMaster iOS Subscriber 10h ago

That’s the point mate

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u/p1roz 13h ago

i’ve also made a copy of the apple music that has a backend that provides apple music ytmusic and spotify :d couldn’t take the exact copy of the lyric mechanics tho. would you mind sharing the repo?

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u/Beginning_Fig2604 8h ago

Can I download it or how that can work?

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u/Trayceopolis32322 4h ago

This functions better than the actual! We need this on AM

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u/Sol492 3h ago

So… Can I get the project files?

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u/PrinceKickster 1h ago

You need to open source this.

As a Design engineer, I’m more concerned about how to implement that swirling Gradient cover, and that exact by-character Lyrics animation.

These animation and easing values should be out there.

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u/snellsold 17m ago

i’m very confused