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October 31 '09 - 10:17 am
Confirmed: iTunes 9.0.2 Script Menu App Bundle Bug

iTunes 9.0.2 will not display AppleScript Application Bundles in its Script menu. The apps are still where they are supposed to be, ~/Library/iTunes/Scripts/ or /Library/iTunes/Scripts/, and they still work when fired from the Finder. It’s just that iTunes doesn’t recognize them for inclusion in the Script Menu. Apple is aware of the issue.

This is a problem in Snow Leopard since the default build type for AppleScript applications is the bundled type–there is no longer an option to create “plain” application scripts. Thus any AppleScript applications created in Snow Leopard will not appear in iTunes’ Script menu, as well as, of course, any AppleScript application ever saved as Application Bundle.

Scripts affected will display Kind: Application (Universal) in their Get Info window.

Affected apps that you simply gotta access while iTunes is frontmost can be copied/moved to ~/Library/Scripts/Applications/iTunes/ and they will appear in the system-wide Scripts menu.

posted in Bugs, iTunes9

October 30 '09 - 1:39 pm
Apps Not Displaying

On further investigation, it appears that AppleScript applications with bundles are not displaying in the iTunes 9.0.2 Script menu. This means that any app written under 10.6 will not appear since app bundles are the default application build style. Apps written without bundles pre-10.6 will display. Regular scripts, with or without bundles, seem fine.

UPDATE: ScriptPal is a good workaround.

posted in Bugs, iTunes, iTunes9

October 30 '09 - 1:26 pm
Interesting iTunes 9.0.2 Mystery

A Correspondent alerted me to an unusual behavior with iTunes 9.0.2 and the script application Needle Drop: it doesn’t appear in iTunes’ Script menu, under Leopard or Snow Leopard. I don’t know what to suspect yet.

Of course, it still works if you double-click it in the Finder, but that kind of defeats the purpose of having a Script menu.

I will investigate.

posted in Bugs, iTunes9

June 3 '09 - 4:51 pm
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.

posted in Bugs, Join Together, iTunes

April 6 '09 - 4:34 pm
iTunes 8.1.1 Released

Apple released iTunes 8.1.1 which enabled HD movie rentals and supplies some VoiceOver and syncing fixes.

The shortcut bug introduced in version 8.1–whereby scripts assigned keyboard shortcuts would run twice–appears fixed. Hooray!

posted in Apple, Bugs, Updates, iTunes

March 16 '09 - 7:46 pm
iTunes AppleScript Keyboard Shortcuts Activate Twice

Correspondent Peter Kappesser noticed that under iTunes 8.1 AppleScripts to which he had assigned keyboard shortcuts (via the Keyboard Shortcuts tab in Keyboard & Mouse of System Preferences) would be activated twice when launched by the keyboard shortcut. Thus, they will perform their task twice in a row. I can verify it happens at my house, too. File a bug report.

posted in Apple, Bugs, Tips and Info, iTunes

October 18 '08 - 3:36 pm
Multiple Library Confusion

I’ve just posted a brief article explaining how your system can get confused when using iTunes’ multiple library feature:

Some of my AppleScripts for iTunes use a routine which reads the iApps.plist in order to obtain the location of the current iTunes library’s XML file in order to get information from it. I occasionally get reports that these scripts don’t seem to be working correctly; that the information seems to be wrong or doesn’t correlate with track tags in iTunes. When the Correspondent and I investigate this phenomenon, very often it is because the iApps.plist contains the wrong location for the current iTunes library….read more here.

posted in Advice, Apple, Bugs, Tips and Info, iTunes

September 23 '08 - 7:31 pm
It’s Official

I got a follow-up email to my bug report to Apple regarding the iTunes 7.7.1 “whose clause” to-do: “Engineering is no longer able to reproduce the issue with iTunes 8.” The iTunes guys put things back the way they were, more or less. An implied list (using “every” as the specifier or a range) returns a list or empty list, an implied single entity specifier (”first”, “last”, “some”, and so on) returns a bare value.

posted in Apple, Bugs, iTunes

September 14 '08 - 8:46 am
Genius 4010 Error

This Apple forums discussion post describes an error that many iTunes 8 users are getting:

“iTunes 8.0 gathers data about my music library well enough and sends it to Apple too; but then 10-15 seconds into ‘processing’ by Apple, iTunes stops and reports that ‘Genius results can’t be updated right now. An unknown error occurred (4010)’. I thought it might be overloaded servers and tried several more times in the hope of squeezing my request in between those of everyone else; but that didn’t work; plus if it were a server issue I’d expect to see postings here from others with the same problems, and I’m not.”

Several posters have tried removing dead tracks–tracks whose files cannot be located as designated with the encircled exclamation point–from the library using the script Super Remove Dead Tracks and trying again, and although this didn’t work for everybody, several posters did get things working correctly afterwards.

posted in Apple, AppleScript, Bugs, Managing Tracks

September 9 '08 - 3:06 pm
iTunes 8

Apple released iTunes 8 today at the “Let’s Rock” event.

Happily, the “whose clause” bug from v7.7.1 has been fixed: a filter using an implied plural (”every” or a range) will return a list and one that implies singularity (”first”, “last”, “some”) returns a bare item. As it should be.

More as it develops.

posted in Apple, Bugs, Updates, iTunes

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