Shortcuts

Seven actions, in every ChorusPop for Mac, the App Store version included. Open Shortcuts, search the actions for “ChorusPop”, and drag them in.

Wait Until Done

Make Song, Remove Vocals, Vocals Only and Make Stems have a Wait Until Done switch, on by default.

• On: the action holds, showing progress, until the job is finished. The Job it returns has Files, ready for Save File, Quick Look, AirDrop or Mail. A failed or cancelled job stops the shortcut and says why.
• Off: the action returns the queued Job at once. Pass it to Get Job Status later to see its Status, Progress and Song ID.

Songs take minutes (about 1¼ for 0:30). Versions take seconds. Either way the job keeps going in ChorusPop if the shortcut stops.

Examples

Song from the clipboard

1. Get Clipboard
2. Make Song — Lyrics: Clipboard, Genre: Pop, Moods: Happy, Length: 60, Wait Until Done: on
3. Get Details of Job — Files
4. Save File — Ask Where to Save: on

A karaoke track of the newest song

1. Find Songs — Limit: 1
2. Remove Vocals — Song: Songs, Format: Apple Lossless
3. Get Details of Job — Files → Quick Look

Stems for every song in an album

1. Find Songs — Album: Summer, Limit: 50
2. Repeat with Each item in Songs: Make Stems — Song: Repeat Item, Format: FLAC
3. Inside the repeat: Export Song — Song: Repeat Item, Version: Stems, Destination: Music Folder

Queue now, collect later

1. Make Song — Wait Until Done: off → Save to variable or Set Variable “Job”
2. Later, in any shortcut: Get Job Status — Job. When Status is done, Export Song with the Song ID.

From the terminal: shortcuts run

Any shortcut runs from a shell or a script, with no window. Build a shortcut named “Song from Text” whose first action is Make Song with Lyrics set to Shortcut Input, and whose last is Get Details of Job — Files. Then:

printf '[verse]\nNeon on the river\n[chorus]\nTurn it up\n' > lyrics.txt
shortcuts run "Song from Text" --input-path lyrics.txt --output-path ~/Desktop/neon.m4a

shortcuts list | grep -i song        # your shortcuts that make songs
shortcuts run "Song from Clipboard"  # the clipboard example above

The direct download also has the command-line tool, which is quicker to script than a shortcut.

Siri and Spotlight

Two actions are ready without building anything: say or search “Make a song with ChorusPop” or “Find songs in ChorusPop”.

Actions

Song parameters take a song from Find Songs, or pick one from the list. Length is 30–290 seconds, rounded to a 10-second step.

A Job has Title, Kind (song, instrumental, vocals, stems), Status (queued, running, paused, done, failed, cancelled), Progress (0–100), Song ID and Files. A Song has Title, Style, Length (seconds), Lyrics and Made.