Restarting the Music and TV apps on the Mac actually makes it work again. So I have now created a small shell script to automatically do that.

First let me say that I know next to nothing about Apple script and I'm pretty new to the whole religion too. I'm using Linux primarily.I want to start a long running script so I wrote a script ...

Start by launching Automator and creating a new custom, blank workflow. In the Utilities category of the actions list, you’ll find the Run Shell Script action.