Never miss
a show you'd
actually
have gone to.
Music watches what you really play — Apple's heavy rotation plus your recents, not a follow list you have to maintain — and emails you one Friday digest when a new date near you turns up for a band you play. Nothing new that week? No email.
Or yearly — $150, two months free · one subscription covers every Parsons app, unlimited projects
that is the whole promise.
They played your city last month.
You didn't miss the show because there was no alert. You missed it because the alert depended on a list you were supposed to keep — and you last touched that list in 2023, two phones and about forty new favourite bands ago.
Tour announce, presale, on-sale and sold-out all happened while the follow list sat still. The alert system worked perfectly. It just wasn't pointed at what you actually listen to.
Your rotation is the follow list.
Every rival keys off an explicit follow. We key off what you played. One of those is a chore that rots; the other is a by-product of using Apple Music at all.
What happens on Friday at 9am.
One scheduled sweep, five stages, and a dedupe step whose whole job is to stop the email from being sent. Watch the tray: the sweep runs, the dedupe strikes anything you have already been told about, and the terminal chip decides.
Shows come from Ticketmaster Discovery with performer verification and a real per-result distance. Releases come from Apple's latest-release feed for your own top artists, inside a 14-day window.
Connect Apple Music, then open Shows near you once. That visit is how it learns where “near me” is — your home base is read from the edge and saved. After that the sweep runs on its own, and your own AI inherits the same home city when it calls find_concerts. That is the whole setup.
Set a radius. Not a list of cities.
Live between two metros and city-pickers make you choose. A radius doesn't. Click a ring — these are the four choices that ship in the app, wired to the same numbers.
24
12
Every row carries the real computed distance and a performer check against the artist name — not a fuzzy keyword match on a city, which is how people end up with a ticket to the wrong act.
Travel mode is a control, not a prompt trick. Switch the city in the app and the same sweep points somewhere else — or just say it to your AI, and find_concerts takes the city argument directly.
Useful before you connect anything.
Four of the tools run entirely on our own API keys. Sign in, ask a question, get a real answer — then connect Apple Music when you're ready for the digest and the player.
Concert search, similar-artist discovery and off-catalog video search need nothing from your library. The status pill below stays grey for all three.
The version that isn't on Apple Music.
The live take. The remix. The 2011 DJ set somebody uploaded once. Streaming catalogs are licensing artefacts — they simply do not contain most of what a fan actually wants to hear again.
Put it on. It doesn't stop.
A play cues a list and ends. A station never ends — when the queue runs low the tab asks for the next batch, seeded by what is playing right now, so it drifts with the music instead of looping a static seed. Anything already heard this session is excluded, so it keeps moving forward.
The next batch comes from Last.fm's similar-tracks for the current song, resolved back to real Apple catalog ids. Apple's own recommendations are the fallback when the track is too obscure for Last.fm.
Two answers, and we tell you which one you're getting.
play and start_station check whether your Music tab is actually alive — a 180-second freshness window — before they answer. Open, and the AI drives the player. Closed, and they hand back tap-to-play links into your own Apple Music app, which is where background audio and lock-screen controls actually work. now_playing uses the same window and marks its answer stale past it.
21 tools. One endpoint. No install.
Sign in once and your account gets a single MCP connection that covers Music and every other Parsons app. Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor. Tool calls are free and uncapped — driving Music from your own AI all day costs nothing beyond the subscription.
The DIY Apple Music MCP servers on GitHub run locally — Python, AppleScript, the desktop Music app, a config file per client. This one is hosted. It works from your phone, and it does concerts, releases, the digest, off-catalog search and Last.fm discovery, which none of them do.
recently_playedfavoritessearch_catalogrecommendations
listening_profilenew_releasesfind_concertssimilar_artists
similar_trackssearch_youtubecreate_playlistadd_to_playlist
list_playlistsget_playlistplaystart_station
playback_controlnow_playingdigest_settingsconnect_apple
disconnect_apple
It can read your playlists, not just write them.
Most Apple Music integrations only build. Music also reads: ask what's in a playlist, what you've had on repeat, what Apple is recommending you and why. Then say “make me one like that, but calmer.”
Playlists are created in your own library, up to 100 songs at a time, and appended the same way. They are yours, in Apple Music, on every device you already use.
Music can create and append. It cannot clean up. That limit is written into the tool description your AI reads, so it will tell you the same thing rather than pretending and failing. We would rather lose the sentence than the trust.
Reading side: recently_played, favorites (Apple's heavy rotation), recommendations grouped by reason, and listening_profile — a compact taste summary your AI can fetch before it searches the web, so the answer reflects what you actually listen to.
What we hold, and how you take it back.
Connecting Apple Music gives us one thing: a Music User Token scoped to your own account. Here is its whole life.
Where we win — and the two places we lose.
A table that only flatters us reads as a lie, so the losses go at the top.
| Parsons Music | Bandsintown | Songkick | Apple Music Concerts | Spotify Live Events | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small independent & club-only nights | We lose here. Ticketmaster Discovery only — if it isn't ticketed there, we don't see it. | Much broader catalogue | Strong on the indie circuit | Bandsintown data | Varies by market |
| Native mobile app | We lose here. None, and none planned. Web app plus your AI client. | iOS + Android | iOS + Android | Built into Apple Music | Built into Spotify |
| What triggers an alert | Artists you play — weighted heavy rotation + recents | Artists you follow | Artists you track | Artists you follow | Ranked “just for you” subset |
| Email frequency | One Friday send, deduped against every prior email, suppressed entirely on a quiet week | Frequent, all-or-nothing settings | Per-artist alerts | Push, per artist | In-app + weekly playlist |
| Radius control | 50 / 100 / 200 / 300 mi chips, 5–500 from the tool, auto-widens to 350 and says so | Pick cities | Pick a metro | Not user-controllable | Not user-controllable |
| Point it at another city | Yes — a control in the app and a tool argument | Add the city | Add the city | No | No |
| Drive it from your own AI | 21 MCP tools, hosted, free and uncapped | No | No | No | No |
| Off-catalog search (live cuts, DJ sets) | Yes — YouTube Data API v3 | No | No | No | No |
| Streaming service | Apple Music only. Not Spotify. Not SoundCloud. | Several | Several | Apple Music | Spotify |
| Price | $15/mo — we'd rather charge you than sell you, and the free columns here are funded by ads and affiliate ticket links. The same $15 opens every other Parsons product, in unlimited projects, with no per-seat charge. | Free, ad/affiliate funded | Free | Included with Apple Music | Included with Spotify |
One subscription. And Music is the smallest part of it.
The subscription is access to the whole platform, not to one app — and it is the same access whether you pay by the month or by the year. Here is what the line item actually looks like.
every line stamps in — the total never moves. paid yearly it is $150.00 — the same receipt, two months off.
- All of Music — the Friday digest, all 21 tools, the in-tab player
- Nothing in Music is metered. No cap on shows searched, releases checked, stations started or playlists built
- Every other Parsons app included on the same subscription
- Unlimited projects, each with its own data, members and spend caps
Fifteen dollars buys one app nearly everywhere else.
So the honest question isn't whether there's a catch — it's whether it's worth it. Three checkable reasons the same $15 buys the whole catalogue here instead of one row of it.
One app's price. The whole catalogue.
A single specialist subscription lands in exactly this range — Copilot $13/mo for budgeting alone, Cronometer Gold $10.99/mo for a food log, Linear $8 a seat for issues. Per app we don't undercut them, and won't claim to. The difference: this $15 isn't one app — it is Music, Money, Fitness, Journal, Tracker, CRM and the whole platform underneath them, on one account and one bill.
One platform, not 22 apps
Music is a single edge worker sharing the same auth, billing, notifications and MCP hub as everything else. There is no per-app infrastructure, no per-app ops team and no per-app margin to fund.
The expensive part is metered separately
The things that genuinely cost money per use — AI tokens, voice minutes, phone numbers, domains — are prepaid, capped by you, and never ride the subscription. The $15 lane stays flat because it was never carrying them: nothing to true up, and no metered surprise at the end of the month.
Unlimited projects. No extra cost.
One for your life, one for the band, one for the label. Each project has its own data, its own members and its own spend caps — and none of them costs a cent more. Most software bills you per workspace, or per seat, or both, for exactly this shape. We charge once, for the account, and the second project is the same $15 as the first.
The questions everyone asks first.
digest_settings. There is also a “Send me one now” button, so you can see the whole chain work in five seconds instead of waiting until Friday.play and start_station check a 180-second freshness window and tell your AI which mode they answered in; now_playing marks its answer stale past the same window.disconnect_apple, and fully purged when you delete your account — the platform's deletion orchestrator calls Music's own erasure endpoint.find_concerts will tell you so rather than silently returning nothing.Last call.
Connect Apple Music, open the app once so it knows where you are, and the next time a new date near you turns up for a band you actually play, you'll know that Friday.
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