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Download 454 (and counting) free user-contributed AppleScripts for Apple's iTunes that will make maintaining your digital music collection easier and more fun!
What's AppleScript?
AppleScript is a simple Macintosh-only programming language that can control and automate actions on your Mac. AppleScripts written for iTunes can manage files and track information, create playlists, interact with other applications, and perform many other tasks which otherwise would be repetitive and time-consuming.
Cool! Where Do I Start?
Start browsing the site by using the scripts ↓ Menu link above. Or use the search boxes at the top of every page to try and find something specific.
The right column displays the 10 Most Recently Added Scripts, the Top Eleven Downloads, Other Sites' Favorite Scripts, and 10 Random Scripts.
What Else?
See Script Solutions for the answers to most frequently asked questions...get plenty of tips & info on writing your own AppleScripts for iTunes...query other Correspondents via the forum at iLounge.
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DIY: iTunes Remote Management Assortment
DIY: Remote Management Assortment is a tutorial suggesting several methods of manipulating iTunes files among users on a network, with particular emphasis on using AppleScript to swing passwordless ssh, rsync, scp, osascript, and other utilities. Rather than develop a batch of scripts for you to download (and have to support), you can use the fundamentals described here as the basis for your own AppleScript projects.
It's a None/All Bug
The "none" bug I described yesterday turns out to be a bit more extensive: it's a "none/all" bug.
iTunes 8.2 introduces a bug whereby the the use of the none value with special kind and video kind, and the all value with song repeat in AppleScripts compiled in iTunes 8.1.1 and earlier will not work correctly in iTunes 8.2. I understand that Apple is aware of this situation and assume a fix will be forthcoming in a future version.
If you encounter an error caused by this bug, chances are you are running iTunes 8.2 and the script had been compiled and saved with an earlier version of iTunes.
The fix is to open the script in Script Editor, look for chevron-bound raw constants, and replace them with the appropriate bare-word value. For example, if you see «constant eSpKkSpN» change this to none. (I'm afraid I don't know what the raw constant for "all" is, but it would appear with a song repeat command; song repeat takes the values "off", "one", and "all"). Then re-save the script; it will compile referencing iTunes 8.2 aete and will work fine. Such recompiled scripts, however, will then not work with pre-iTunes 8.2.
Special Kind Playlist Property Weirdness, ctd
A little more about the "none" bug, mentioned earlier today. Any script compiled and saved before iTunes 8.2 which uses the "none" constant with playlist's special kind property will error. Thus, if you get an error concerning "«constant eSpKkSpN»" then it is most likely this bug.
The fix, as I also mentioned earlier, is to open the script with Script Editor, making a note of whether the script's format is compiled (.scpt or .scptd extension) or application (.app extension), and replacing any occurrence of «constant eSpKkSpN» with the bare word none. Then "Save as..." the script, making sure the File Format in the save dialog is set as you noted.
The script should run fine under iTunes 8.2, but, because it has been re-compiled, will not under iTunes 8.1.1 and earlier.
Special Kind Playlist Property Weirdness
A script I had written a year ago looks for playlists whose smart is false and special kind is none. Since updating to iTunes 8.2 it is showing as raw «constant eSpKkSpN». The error is: "Can’t get name of every user playlist whose smart = true and special kind = «constant eSpKkSpN»."
If I open the script and change «constant eSpKkSpN» to "none" then save, all's OK.
Join Together Breaks with Latest iTunes/QT
Haven't had a chance to investigate this yet, but it appears that the latest iTunes and/or QuickTime doesn't play well with Join Together. I'll have a look-see as soon as I can and an update shortly thereafter.
iLounge Goes Over 8.2
Instant Expert: Secrets & Features of iTunes 8.2 is quite thorough. Good stuff about iPhone 3.0 compatability.
iTunes 8.2 Released
Apple put iTunes 8.2 up on the web and in Software Update, along with a QuickTime and GarageBand update. 8.2 sports accessibility and bug fixes, compatability with iPhone Software 3.0. I've been away all day and haven't given it a run through, so perhaps there will be more to report later.
ScriptPal v1.1 Posted
I posted ScriptPal v1.1 on Monday. This new version can now display the contents of the user "Scripts" folder (~/Library/iTunes/Scripts/) and/or the local "Scripts" folder (/Library/iTunes/Scripts/), can add a script to an existing Workgroup via the contextual menu, and addresses a couple of minor issues.
ScriptPal Gets Macworld Gem Treatment
Macworld's Dan Frakes has a great review of ScriptPal. Thanks!
UPDATED: Lyrics Via LyricWiki v1.1
Lyrics Via LyricWiki has been updated to v1.1. This script will use the name and artist of the single selected or playing track as the basis for a SOAP query to LyricWiki.org; fruitful results will be displayed so you can choose to apply the lyrics to the particular track.
Latest version addresses issue with properly converting high ASCII text.
ScriptPal v1.0.2 Released
This latest update to ScriptPal fixes a problem displaying consecutive sub-folders.
ScriptPal v1.0.1 Released
Just made a couple of quick fixes to ScriptPal, now at version 1.0.1. Fixed a problem listing scripts when the "Scripts" folder has a custom icon and addressed an issue whereby the contents of application bundles with non-standard hierarchies were being displayed.
Thanks for the great feedback on ScriptPal.
