Music Bar sits in your menu bar and quietly digs up album anniversaries from your Apple Music library. Records you forgot you loved. Ones turning nineteen, or twenty-five, or five.
Every morning Music Bar pulls one album from your library that's having an anniversary today. Sometimes it's a round number, sometimes it's a weird one like nineteen. Click it to open in Apple Music.
A short list of releases from the last seven days, pulled from the artists in your heavy rotation. Not a recommendation feed. Just the people you actually listen to, when they put something out.
Five artists adjacent to someone you've been playing a lot lately. No pop-ups, no notifications, no “for you” carousel. You see them when you open the popover.
Music Bar uses Apple's MusicKit framework to read your library and heavy rotation. The token stays on your Mac, and we never see it, because there is no “we” on the receiving end. There is no server.
The popover opens instantly from disk cache, then revalidates in the background each time you open it. Anniversaries roll over at midnight; new releases and similar artists re-check on every open.
Every row is a deep link into Apple Music. Music Bar doesn't play audio itself. It points at the thing you already pay for and then gets out of the way.
api.music.apple.com from your Mac, with credentials stored locally. We don't run a backend, and there's nothing that logs or analyzes anything you do.