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February 12 '10 - 7:14 pm
Nine Years

Before I forget: February 15 is, apparently, the ninth anniversary of this site. As Regulars may know, the site began as a repository for AppleScripts written for SoundJam. (In fact, I still have SoundJam on my old iMac Rev B running OS 9 quite serviceably–if you think of that sort of thing as serviceable.) By February 15, 2001, Apple had released iTunes, but it wasn’t ’scriptable until iTunes 2—as it was called—was released November 3, 2001. For a while I was posting both SoundJam and iTunes scripts. At the time no one was aware that SJ was doomed.

Anyway, thanks for all the visits and good words over the years. It’s still a lot of fun.

posted in Site News, SoundJam, iTunes

January 30 '10 - 10:28 am
Dave Taylor on Dupin

Dave Taylor is one of my favorite coding guys; he’s got the know-how on everything from HTML to UNIX. So I was pretty bowled over to see Dave’s take on Dupin v2.1 in a post on de-dupin’ iTunes. Many thanks!

posted in Dupin, Mentions, iTunes

January 28 '10 - 8:01 am
Dupin v2.1 Released

Dupin v2.1 is now available.

Dupin is your iTunes duplicates manager.

With Dupin you can:

New in Dupin v2.1:

More information and download links are here.

posted in Dupin, Snow Leopard, Updates, iTunes

January 14 '10 - 9:29 am
Size of Files, Size of Library

It’s not the size of your “iTunes Media” files that best describes how big your media file collection is. Often, querying Correspondents will report that their iTunes Media folder is so many GBs (or so many days-worth). But if that total includes a lot of video then the number of files is smaller than the same-sized folder containing just 128kbps audio files (eg: my “Star Trek” with Extras at 6GB+ is a little smaller than my “Compilations” folder which contains over a thousand files). Very few of my scripts and apps directly work on the files in the iTunes Media folder anyway, so in many cases its size is irrelevant; scripts work with tracks in iTunes, so the number of tracks is more important than the size of their files. A better relative measurement for comparison purposes is the size of your “iTunes Music Library.xml” file (located in ~/Music/iTunes). It has an entry for each track in your library and all (well, most) playlists. Therefore, the more tracks and playlists you have the larger the XML file will be.

posted in Miscellaneous, Tips and Info, iTunes

November 27 '09 - 9:40 am
Roll Yer Own iTunes LP

Apple has posted everything you need “to create a rich, interactive experience around your music and movies. All right in iTunes.” It’s a complete development guide including templates, best practices, and the latest TuneKit.

posted in Apple, iTunes

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 29 '09 - 3:54 pm
iTunes 9.0.2 is Released

iTunes 9.0.2 has been released. “iTunes 9.0.2 adds support for Apple TV software version 3.0, adds an option for a dark background for Grid View, and improves support for accessibility.” Meaning that AppleTV has been updated, too, with support for iTunes LP and Extras, internet radio, and Genius. Nice.

posted in iTunes

October 28 '09 - 10:46 am
NEW: Music Folder Files Not Added v2.0

Well, depending on your point of view, perhaps this is an update. Music Folder Files Not Added v2.0 is a Snow Leopard-only application (MFFNA v1.1 is still posted and will run on Tiger and Leopard) that will list the file paths of the files in your designated “iTunes Music” folder which are not in iTunes’ library. Additionally, you can select a different parent folder and its contents will be compared to the iTunes library. You can then Add a selection of found files to iTunes or move them to the Trash.

This version was developed with Xcode using the new AppleScriptObjC framework and as such will only run on Snow Leopard.

posted in Managing Files, Snow Leopard, Updates, iTunes

October 1 '09 - 10:00 am
NEW: Make Add-to-Playlist-Droplet

After posting Drop to Playlist recently, I went crazy for the droplets. This new script, Make Add-to-Playlist-Droplet, will create AppleScript droplets that perform a function similar to iTunes 9’s “Automatically Add to iTunes” folder but for individual playlists. Simply select a playlist and run the script to create a droplet that references the selected playlist. Once such a droplet is created, drag-and-dropping files to its icon in the Finder will add the files to your iTunes library and copy the new tracks directly to the playlist that the droplet references. The script will allow you to create as many droplets for as may playlists as you like.

posted in AppleScript, Managing Files, Updates, iTunes

September 30 '09 - 12:16 pm
UPDATED: De-Genre v3.0

Macworld’s Chris Breen mentioned De-Genre in his recent column and it occurred to me that I should freshen that one up.

De-Genre v3.0 re-assigns the Library tracks of selected Genres to another Genre so that the original—and consequently un-assigned—Genres disappear from iTunes’ Genre pop-up list. This latest version runs as universal binary and includes the aforementioned freshening-up of code.

posted in iTunes

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