Rainmeter skin with AppleMusic/Cider Classic support

[FilipSly]

Hello, I'm looking to install a skin for media controls and song info and whatnot for my desktop but I can't seem to find a skin that works with Apple Music (not iTunes, the new one) nor Cider Classic. If anyone happens to know of any, please let me know of them.
Thanks

[Yincognito]

Hello, I'm looking to install a skin for media controls and song info and whatnot for my desktop but I can't seem to find a skin that works with Apple Music (not iTunes, the new one) nor Cider Classic. If anyone happens to know of any, please let me know of them.
Thanks

It's not about the skin, it's the plugin (i.e. the .dll) it's using. Generally, you'd try a skin using the WebNowPlaying plugin (don't forget about the extension and testing it with YT or something afterwards):
https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?t=26619
to try and achieve the above. If that doesn't work, then probably other ways of making it work won't either.

[FilipSly]

It's not about the skin, it's the plugin (i.e. the .dll) it's using. Generally, you'd try a skin using the WebNowPlaying plugin (don't forget about the extension and testing it with YT or something afterwards):
https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?t=26619
to try and achieve the above. If that doesn't work, then probably other ways of making it work won't either.

EDIT: So the test skin that it came with works perfectly fine, but I cannot find another skin that supports it whatsoever!. I have tried a few, 5 to be exact, one which said it works but would end up making Rainmeter as a whole run very badly and still not working, only the visualizer working.

Could you please provide a link or something to where I can find any? Thanks

[Yincognito]

EDIT: So the test skin that it came with works perfectly fine, but I cannot find another skin that supports it whatsoever!. I have tried a few, 5 to be exact, one which said it works but would end up making Rainmeter as a whole run very badly and still not working, only the visualizer working.

Could you please provide a link or something to where I can find any? Thanks

I think that a good choice would be to follow this advice:
https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?t=37459#p190569
and search for whatever you prefer yourself. There are many skins using this plugin, but personally I'm not that good in recommending one or another - I think that, if you didn't try it yet, the rewritten Mond skin works with WebNowPlaying too:
https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?t=42042

Anyway, just to clarify, did you manage to have Apple Music or Cider work with WebNowPlaying, or you just referred to the YouTube testing part when saying that it worked?

[FilipSly]

I think that a good choice would be to follow this advice:
https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?t=37459#p190569
and search for whatever you prefer yourself. There are many skins using this plugin, but personally I'm not that good in recommending one or another - I think that, if you didn't try it yet, the rewritten Mond skin works with WebNowPlaying too:
https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?t=42042

Anyway, just to clarify, did you manage to have Apple Music or Cider work with WebNowPlaying, or you just referred to the YouTube testing part when saying that it worked?

Yes I got Cider Classic to work with WebNowPlaying, I haven't tried AM Preview but Cider worked, the shuffle or replay or like/dislike buttons don't work but its not a big deal, as the Play/Pause Forward/Backwards buttons work.
The rewritten Mond skin works well, with everything including the seek bar, and it looks good as well, thanks for the recommendation.

Thanks for everything, that's it from me.

[Yincognito]

Yes I got Cider Classic to work with WebNowPlaying, I haven't tried AM Preview but Cider worked, the shuffle or replay or like/dislike buttons don't work but its not a big deal, as the Play/Pause Forward/Backwards buttons work.
The rewritten Mond skin works well, with everything including the seek bar, and it looks good as well, thanks for the recommendation.

Thanks for everything, that's it from me.

You're welcome - glad I could help!

[flailingcomet]

Does this still work for you? I'm using the latest version of apple music from the Microsoft Store but WebNowPlayingRedux only displays the album art, song title, and song duration. The skip and back buttons also work. I also tried using latest versions of Cider from itch.io and the Microsoft Store as well as the latest Cider Classic build, but in all cases with Cider the WebNowPlayingRedux does not work at all, displaying "N/A" for everything and unable to control the music.

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[Yincognito]

Does this still work for you? I'm using the latest version of apple music from the Microsoft Store but WebNowPlayingRedux only displays the album art, song title, and song duration. The skip and back buttons also work. I also tried using latest versions of Cider from itch.io and the Microsoft Store as well as the latest Cider Classic build, but in all cases with Cider the WebNowPlayingRedux does not work at all, displaying "N/A" for everything and unable to control the music.

Don't know about Cider since I don't use it and this is one of the few threads mentioning it (so the OP is the person to ask about it, given his apparent success on that front), but when it comes to Apple Music, I think this clarifies things a bit in that regard:
https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?t=26619&start=110#p222006

Not sure if this is what you wanted to hear, but it's a more informative answer, probably written after thorough testing.