To access the ~/Library folder, you can do a couple of things:

• The easiest method: Hold the Option key while clicking the Finder’s “Go” menu and “Library” will appear in the drop down menu. Select it to bring the ~/Library/ folder frontmost. Then navigate to ~/Library/iTunes/Scripts/ and copy your iTunes scripts to this folder. (As usual: if no “Scripts” folder is there then create one.)
• Geekier: Type “chflags nohidden Library” in Terminal while the prompt is at your home directory. This will make the ~/Library/ folder visible at all times.
• *Alternative: Install scripts in the [startup disk]/Library/iTunes/Scripts/ folder (which will make scripts available to all users on your machine) rather than the user’s [username]/Library/iTunes/Scripts/ folder. That Library folder is always visible and accessible in Lion.

If you need regular access, once the ~/Library/ folder is visible, drag it to the Finder sidebar or put an alias to it in the Finder’s toolbar.

Update: You can download this AppleScript applet that will make your ~/Library visible, using the command mentioned above. It takes less than a second to run it.

With the registered version of Spins you can:

• Quickly generate most-played track rankings from your iTunes library
• Easily configure up to four panels each displaying various track plays and ranking information
• Rank most played tracks, Artists, or Albums
• Rank track plays in the total library or in selected playlists
• Count unique track plays or pooled-from-the-artist’s-albums track plays
• Sort and filter track plays by Artist, Genre, Rating, and Year
• Display plays data for the current playing track or a selected iTunes track
• Display breakouts by Artists, Composers, Genres, Ratings, and Years

Left to right: Spins’ “Breakouts” window, main window displaying one of four panels, and “Live Spins” floating display.

Updated in version 1.0.2 (current):

• fixes issues when switching between multiple libraries
• fixes bug displaying panels when selected playlist no longer exists in current library
• fixes issue whereby initial scan of library cannot complete
• will ignore radio stream play counts
• fixes bug with “No Limit” setting (registered version)
• added preference toggle to re-set panel options to defaults on each launch (registered version)
• added Sparkle framework to provide update notifications and installations

This version is a free upgrade for registered users of v1.x.x.

Give Spins a spin…and see what you’ve been spinning.

I suppose this is fine, and my wife will appreciate this if she’s watching my Mac’s media on our Mac mini TV, but if an AppleScript tells iTunes to quit Right Now, the alert requires user to click a button, which 1) may defeat the intention of an unattended quit, 2) could screw up a script if the user chooses “Don’t Quit”, and 3) is annoying in general. A preference to shut this off, which I couldn’t find, would be great.

UPDATE: A Correspondent informs me the Quit alert-while-sharing is not new. I have never seen it before, and do not see it on a machine running iTunes 10.0. But, whatever; it’s still a peeve.

The fix for such a script might be to put a 30 second with timeout block on a quit command, or maybe a delay of 30 after it. I’m not wild about delays, though, because they stall the script. 30 seconds would cover the 20 seconds the dialog times-out at but you made need more time if iTunes performs some extended shut-down housekeeping tasks. Then you have to check if iTunes has actually quit after 30 seconds, and then handle what happens next if iTunes didn’t quit–abort the task for which you needed iTunes shut off, presumably.

This application will allow you to invoke hidden iTunes preferences:

• Show “Library” playlist
• Changing view setting is global
• Allow half-stars in ratings
• Hide “Ping” buttons
• Show/hide arrow links — to either search the iTunes Store or search your library
• Load complete iTunes Store preview before playing
• Create playlists for purchased song collections
• Play songs while importing or converting
• Create file names with track number
• Maintain grid view for Search results
• Option-click zoom button for Mini Player
• Show buttons horizontally

For iTunes 9 or better in OS 10.5 or better only.