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NEW: Search IMDB
Search IMDB allows you to choose a search term from the pertinent tags of a selected iTunes track and then choose the type of search to make at the IMDB website.
Results are displayed in your designated default browser using a Finder routine. Most web browsers are not ’scriptable which somewhat limits what you can do with them with AppleScript.
And, what the heck. Here’s a Rotten Tomatoes script I use on my “entertainment center” Mac Mini that uses the name of the selected track for a search:
tell application “iTunes”
set sel to selection
if sel is not {} and (length of sel) is 1 then
my processSearch(get name of item 1 of sel)
end if
end tell
to processSearch(n)
try
tell application “Finder” to open location (”http://www.rottentomatoes.com/search/?sitesearch=rt&search=” & n) as text
end try
end processSearch
UPDATED: Discogs Search Kit v1.1
About a month ago I started getting emails from users reporting that Discogs Search Kit wasn’t getting track info correctly. I finally got around to making some fixes. This latest version of Discogs Search Kit makes accommodations for formatting changes at Discogs, which apparently were implemented a month or so ago (April 2011).
UPDATED: AMG EZ Search v2.0
AMG EZ Search v2.0 will use the tags of the selected or playing iTunes track as the basis for a Song/Artist/Album search at the allmusic website. This version accounts for changes in the AMG site’s search mechanism, can parse the stream title of a radio stream for tags if available.
NEW: Search YouTube
Search YouTube will use the Song Name and Artist of the selected or playing track as the basis for a search on YouTube.
I’m surprised I never had a need of this before, but I was looking for a clip from an old Dave Edmunds documentary on his sessions for the “Repeat When Necessary” album. There’s a clip of Albert Lee doing solo stuff on “Sweet Little Lisa” that I wanted to check out. The script makes searching from iTunes a tad easier.
UPDATED: Search Wikipedia v2.2
I have been doing a lot of listening to radio streams in iTunes recently. And because of the “surprise” factor inherent in radio listening, an artist will often be played in a stream that I’m curious about. A good provider will format the current stream title to the somewhat standard format of Artist – Song Name which will be scrolled in the the iTunes display while the stream is, er, streaming. Search Wikipedia v2.2 can now detect if a stream is playing, and, if the current stream title is formatted correctly, search Wikipedia using the artist portion of the title. Of course, otherwise, Search Wikipedia will use the playing or selected track’s tags as the basis for a Wikipedia article search.
Gracenote Search MIA?
I’ve never known Gracenote (CDDB) to be down for maintenance, so it’s unusual to see a 404 when going to the Gracenote search page. What’s up with that?
UPDATED: Current Track to Twitter v2.0
Not necessarily to commemorate the opening of Chirp: Current Track to Twitter v2.0 will tweet information about the currently playing track to your Twitter account, either automatically every time a new track starts or manually with a click of its Dock icon. This latest version is pretty much just a maintenance update since it was last updated in 2007. (See the screenshot I’ve included on the entry page. “Updating live every two minutes” and “What you and your friends are doing” sure bring back memories.)
UPDATED: CDDB Safari Kit v3.1
These two AppleScripts, “CDDB Safari” and “CDDB Tracks to iTunes via Safari”, assist in finding and retrieving Album track information, Album, Artist, and Year from Gracenote’s CDDB website using Apple’s Safari browser. CDDB Safari Kit v3.1 addresses some minor changes in Gracenote’s page formatting.