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30 Most Recent RSS FeedEPPC and AirPlay Bug?
A Correspondent alerted me to an issue he is seeing, and that I can verify, using the EPPC protocol to access the AirPlay device property via iTunes on a remote machine. For example, with Remote Apple Events enabled on a remote machine, a script like this—that up until recently worked—will fail:
tell application "iTunes" of machine "eppc://user:password@Remote-Machine.local"
set apDevices to (get name of every AirPlay device)
end tell
In this example, you would expect to get a list of the names of the AirPlay devices available on the remote machine. But instead, the script trips up on the word "AirPlay" with the error "Expected class name but found identifier". "AirPlay device" is a class name. Other conventional iTunes/Remote Apple Events routines work as expected.
Our Correspondent reports that this sort of script worked happily in the past; sounds like he uses it to control iTunes like a server on the remote machine. There have been EPPC-related bugs in the past that were introduced with Security Updates so I'm hoping this is one of those sorts of things and not a deliberate "security feature". File a bug if you can.
