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Search Wikipedia using the Song Name, Album, Artist, or Composer of selected or playing track

You may also want to check out WikiScoop, a Wikipedia browser app for your iTunes Artists.
Performs a "Go" search of Wikipedia (like Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky") in your default browser using the Song Name, Album, Artist, or Composer tag of the single selected or currently playing iTunes track. OR if a radio stream is currently playing and the provider has formatted the stream title correctly, such that Artist - Song Name is displayed, the script will do a Wikipedia search for the Artist name.

    Info:
  • short url: http://dougscripts.com/419
  • category: Internet
  • build type: Bundle (universal binary)
  • latest version posted: September 8, 2010
  • latest version downloads: 3426 | total downloads: 10316
  • download size: 263.6K
 
Search Wikipedia screenshot

Select which tag of the selected or playing track you want to look up on Wikipedia.

 

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