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30 Most Recent RSS FeedExport Artwork saves the artwork of the single selected track to a user-chosen folder as a PNG or JPG file, with scaling options. Default location is the folder containing the selected track’s file, however any location can be selected.
This latest version fixes a problem creating the graphics file with iTunes 9 under Snow Leopard, and is generally updated after two years.
Apple has released iTunes 9.0.3. Fixes:
My download went faster from the download page than from Software Update.
Happily, AppleScript applications now appear as they should in the iTunes Script menu, which was a bug introduced in v9.0.2. Thanks!
Wait wait wait. Some apps appear and some apps don’t. Guess I’d better investigate further :P
UPDATE. Nope. AppleScript application bundles do not display.
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.
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.
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.
Rob Griffiths points out that in iTunes 9, as you are selecting or de-selecting tracks in any playlist or library, the size and time in the status display along the bottom of the iTunes browser window increases or decreases respectively. Neat!
If you are about to email me with something along these lines: Hey! Is it possible to get the lyrics from an iTunes LP and put them in the individual tracks’ lyrics tag? That’d be great!
The lyrics you see displayed in an iTunes LP are .png image files and the lyrics cannot be scraped as text.
Betalogue’s post, iTunes 9: About that new ‘Playlist’ screen, may be a bit hypercritical but on target. Being an iTunes user since it was SoundJam I definitely find the In-Case-You’re-A-Total-N00b aspect of it unnecessary. After seeing it, maybe, three times it’s become just plain annoying. A preference to shut the thing off would be great.
When you’re playing an iTunes LP the Command-L shortcut to reveal/select the track in iTunes doesn’t work. Unless.
Place the iTunes LP “booklet” in its own playlist (select it and press Shift-Command-N) and open that playlist in its own window by double-clicking the name of the playlist (or choose “Open in New Window” by Control-clicking the playlist name). Double-click the booklet to open the iTunes LP in the playlist window just opened. Now you have access to the main iTunes browser while the iTunes LP stuff is playing in the separate window.
This script will emulate the Command-L shortcut providing the iTunes LP is in a separate window:
tell application "iTunes" if player state is stopped then return set pID to (get current track's persistent ID) set mLib to (some playlist whose special kind is Music) reveal (some track of mLib whose persistent ID is pID) end tell
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