Apple Music integration (with new Apple Music Web-API?)

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

This is, as far as I know, the canonical answer from Roon and is rather current, from May and June:

Integrate Deezer streaming service

Apple integration is easy for us on iOS/MacOS – but we couldn’t do any of the audio magic. We’ve spoken to them and they are willing to give us the data dumps we need. The biggest issue with Apple is that they won’t give us audio streams or playback outside their platforms.

Apple Music integration (with new Apple Music Web-API?)

since Apple would control the audio stream, and not Roon’s MUSE audio engine: no DSP no hi-resolution audio no multi-zone no bit-perfect playback no using your devices’ clocks for networked audio no signal path no volume leveling no crossfade forced resampling, possibly asynchronous Airplay only for networking In many cases, Roon + Apple products will be better than Apple Music + Apple Products – but this requires using Roon’s audio engine (which we have recently branded as MUSE so it’s easi…