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August 29 2014 - 12:23 pm

Dupin v2.8.0 Available

I waited a little longer between updates this time around, so Dupin has gained a feature point.

Dupin v2.8 has significant memory management and CPU fixes making it faster than ever. More info and download is here.

posted in Dupin
August 29 2014 - 8:21 am

More iTunes Power Search at Your Fingertips

[UPDATE: In iTunes 12.2 and later, selecting "Music" in this script will go to the "New" section of Apple Music. The other kind selections work as expected.]

Kirk has noticed that Apple has spruced up the iTunes Power Search page. Inspired, I improved this simple AppleScript to launch a Power Search by kind (click the AppleScript Editor icon below the code to display the code in AppleScript Editor on your machine):

set chooseOptions to {"All Results", "Apps", "Music", "Movies", "TV Shows", ¬

"Podcasts", "Books", "iTunesU"}

set optList to {"mt=3", "mt=8", "mt=1", "mt=6", "mt=4", "mt=2", ¬

"media=books#powerSearch&restrict=false&submit=media", ¬

"institutionTerm=&media=iTunesU"}

set opt to (choose from list chooseOptions with prompt "iTunes Power Search...")

if opt is false then return

repeat with i from 1 to length of chooseOptions

if opt as text is (item i of chooseOptions) then

set opt to (item i of optList)

end if

end repeat

set link to ("itms://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/advancedSearch?" & opt) as text

tell application "iTunes" to open location link

Save that as something like "Power Search" in your ~/Library/iTunes/Scripts/ folder and assign it a shortcut. When you launch it, you can select the area you want to search:

posted in DIY, iTunes 11
August 27 2014 - 10:49 am

Daypart v2.4.0 Available

Daypart v2.4.0 can schedule sets of iTunes playlists to play throughout the day and week.

I'm very pleased with this latest version. I had the extraordinary luck of being able to assemble a great group of hardcore Daypart users as beta-testers. This group included cafe, bar and hostel operators in the US and Europe who were able to put Daypart through some serious paces. (From the German hostel owner: "400 person hostel, daily 7am wake-up program made by kids, scheduled with Daypart, transmitted via Airplay to 3 Airport Express wired to three 100 volt PA systems with speakers in each room of our hostel". Wow.)

This version fixes issues with day/week localizations, fixes a problem with setting fade seconds, tames some excessive CPU usage, improves memory mangement, and has general performance fixes for increased reliability. All current users are encouraged to update to Daypart v2.4.0.

Additionally, this version drops support for pre-OS X 10.8 operating systems. However, I have prepared a version 2.3.1 with comparable fixes for OS X 10.6-10.8 which can be downloaded from this page. Version 2.3.1 will be the last version of Daypart that runs on pre-OS X 10.8 systems.

posted in Daypart
August 26 2014 - 11:15 am

UPDATED: Random Full Albums to Playlist

Random Full Albums to Playlist v1.1 will assemble a user-set number of randomly selected full albums to a playlist.

This version fixes a problem whereby only the last disk in a multi-disk collection would ever be selected. Now, only a single disk in such a collection will be selected.

More information and download is here.

posted in Managing Playlists
August 7 2014 - 9:47 pm

iTunes 11.3.1 Released

Apple has posted iTunes 11.3.1 which fixes some podcast related issues.

posted in iTunes 11
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