Apple Music on Arch Linux (April 3rd, 2026)

I wish this wasn't the blog for Chromium garbage, but my life sucks

Attention: I assume you know how to touch computers a moderate amount. This is literally just building the package, but that is because apple-music-bin is using the wrong electron. This leads to a problem: Widevine is missing. Guess what you need to run a proprietary music service.

Do you need to install Apple Music on Arch Linux? Do this in your terminal.

1. git clone https://github.com/Alex313031/apple-music-desktop
   yay -S nvm
   cd apple-music-desktop
   nvm install
   npm install
   npm run build
   sudo cp -R dist/linux-unpacked /usr/local/lib/apple-music
   sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/apple-music /usr/local/bin/apple-music

2. Congrats, you can now sell your soul to Tim Cook.

People who give more of a shit than I do can go ahead and figure out how to PKGBUILD this, or alternatively how to fix the existing AUR package for this: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/apple-music-bin