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Is preview-only playback (no user authentication) permitted for a web game?
I'm building a free web-based music trivia game (guess the release year of a song). I'd like to use the Apple Music API in the following way and want to confirm it complies with the Apple Music API / MusicKit terms: The app requests only 30-second preview clips (previews[].url from the Catalog API), played through a standard HTML element. No user ever signs in with an Apple ID — there is no Music User Token; only my developer token is used, server-side, to query the catalog. The app is free, does not gate playback behind any payment, and displays "Music previews via Apple Music" attribution. Full-track playback and user subscriptions are not used at all. The Apple Music API terms describe the purpose as facilitating access to end users' Apple Music subscriptions — since a preview-only integration never touches a subscription, I want to make sure this usage is sanctioned before launching publicly. Is preview-only, unauthenticated playback of catalog previews permitted in this scenario?
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Is preview-only playback (no user authentication) permitted for a web game?
I'm building a free web-based music trivia game (guess the release year of a song). I'd like to use the Apple Music API in the following way and want to confirm it complies with the Apple Music API / MusicKit terms: The app requests only 30-second preview clips (previews[].url from the Catalog API), played through a standard HTML element. No user ever signs in with an Apple ID — there is no Music User Token; only my developer token is used, server-side, to query the catalog. The app is free, does not gate playback behind any payment, and displays "Music previews via Apple Music" attribution. Full-track playback and user subscriptions are not used at all. The Apple Music API terms describe the purpose as facilitating access to end users' Apple Music subscriptions — since a preview-only integration never touches a subscription, I want to make sure this usage is sanctioned before launching publicly. Is preview-only, unauthenticated playback of catalog previews permitted in this scenario?
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