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Go to https://store.rg-adguard.net/. Click the first dropdown box defaulting to “URL(LINK)” and select “ProductID” then on the further right drop downbox select “Fast”. From there, enter in the box suggesting sample data the product ID “9PFHDD62MXS1”. From there, a dropdown of several items to download appears. Select the, as of 12/01/2023, 167MB file titled “AppleInc.AppleMusicWin_1.0.9985.0_neutral_~_nzyj5cx40ttqa.msixbundle”. This may change, the essential part is downloading the file with the .msixbundle in it’s name.
Once downloaded, right click the downloaded file use 7zip to “Open Archive”. Extract the contents into a folder. Then right click the x64 package (which will be the largest sized item in the folder) and extract this; I recommend extracting it to a folder simply named “Apple Music”.
Now enter the extracted Apple Music Folder. Scroll down to the file “AppxManifest.xml”(just a few under the Apple Music application). Open it with notepad or Notepad++ and then CTRL+F using the words “TargetDeviceFamily”. We need to change this to YOUR particular version of windows. To find this, simply do Win+R and type winver or search in the searchbar “winver” with no speech marks. You need to change the values after 10.0 to the build numbers you have.
Home stretch now! Delete the files AppxBlockMap.xml, AppxSignature.p7x, [Content_Types].xml and then the folder AppxMetadata folder.
Hold down shift and right click in the folder. You’ll get a dropdown menu allowing you to open powershell. We’ll use this in a moment so keep it open. Make sure to enable developer mode at this stage by searching for it via search bar under “developer settings”.
From here, type in Add-AppxPackage -Register and then the file path for the AppxManifest.xml. You can do this by right clicking the AppxManifest.xml file, going to properties, the details tab and under the column “Folder Path” left click the value and press ctrl+c. Finally, do Add-AppxPackage -Register and after one space, right click to paste in the folder location and type \AppxManifest.xml.
You may get an error asking to install something. It should be about missing 1.2 of an SDK. You can download it here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/windows-app-sdk/downloads, just select the 1.2 Installer, install it, go back to powershell and press the up arrow key.
It will type out the command again and you can simply press enter to retry. From here you should FINALLY be finished. Please note you can’t rename or move the folder from where it’s installed otherwise it breaks the installation. If you want to move it to a more permanent location, uninstall the app from the start menu(it doesn’t delete the files), paste the folder in it’s new home and then redo the Add-AppxPackage -Register filepath command. Just select “Sign In” at the bottom left and sign in through THERE, NOT through the “try Apple Music”. It’ll send the verification message and you can sign in!! Make sure to first authorize the PC and then sign in! You’re now finally finished! Click the “…” button top left of the window, to the right of “Apple Music” heading, select “Playback” and make sure to select loseless or hi-res loseless to properly stream your music in high quality!!
