Negative Space: iTunes
- Catalina vs. Mojave for Scripters
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More detail about the issues I ran into updating the scripts from 42 Astounding Scripts for Catalina.
- Catalina: iTunes Library XML
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What does Catalina mean for 42 Astounding Scripts?
- Cleaning iTunes track information
- Python and appscript make it easy to modify iTunes track information in batches—if you’re willing to get your hands dirty on the Mac OS X command line.
- Copying album art with GraphicConverter
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One of the many useful features of GraphicConverter is its extensive AppleScript dictionary. I use it, along with Unskew, to use photos of album covers as album art in iTunes.
- Copying an iTunes playlist
- Hah! My present to Palm turned out to be a present to me. I needed to copy 32 gigabytes of music to an SD card, and it was easy to add that capability to my itunesLists script.
- Getting the selected playlist in iTunes
- It took a while to figure out how to get iTunes’s selected playlist as opposed to the current playlist in AppleScript.
- Importing vinyl into iTunes
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This script takes songs split by marker from SoundStudio and converts them directly into iTunes, setting track number, track total, and album name along with the song title.
- iTunes Alarm
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Set up iTunes to start playing at a specified time, but to not play if you are on vacation and want to sleep in.
- Listen to the Music
- Apple’s new music store is a great step forward for music lovers, but it’s still a long ways from making music downloads as useful as buying a CD.
- MP3tunes.com: consumer-friendly music
- A new music download site from MP3.com founder Michael Robertson promises restriction-free, consumer-friendly music and more money for artists.
- Play this song backwards in iTunes
- Using AppleScript and Quicktime, you can play any song backwards. Find out what Fred Schneider was saying on “Detour Thru Your Mind”.
- A present for Palm
- Palm needs a little help understanding XML.
- Run a script on inserting an audio CD
- You can run a script every time you insert an audio CD to ensure that iTunes is ready for import.
- A simple iTunes sleep timer
- If you enjoy listening to music for a while before you go to sleep, but don’t want to have iTunes on all night, you can use AppleScript to make iTunes and your Mac do what you want it to do.
- Using appscript in Python to control GUI applications
- The appscript module for Python lets you control scriptable applications on the command line without having to coordinate your command-line script with your Applescript applications.
