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UPDATED: Search Wikipedia v3.2
Performs a "Go" search of Wikipedia (like Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky") in your default browser using the Song Title, Album, Artist, or Composer tag of the single selected or currently playing Music track. OR if a radio stream is currently playing and the provider has formatted the stream title correctly, such that Artist - Song Title is displayed, the script will do a Wikipedia search for the Artist name.
Latest version:
- Maintenance update
- Accommodations for macOS 12 Monterey
More information for Search Wikipedia v3.2 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Search Discogs v1.1
For macOS 10.15 and later only. This script will use the Song Title, Artist, Album Artist or Album name of the selected or playing track as the basis for a search of the Discogs website.
Note: A current bug (or feature) in the Music app (v1.1) prevents AppleScript from getting tag information from a streaming Apple Music track.
Latest version:
- Accounts for Music app bug/error getting tag info from streaming tracks
More information for Search Discogs v1.1 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Search Wikipedia v3.1
For macOS 10.15 and later only. Performs a "Go" search of Wikipedia (like Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky") in your default browser using the Song Title, Album, Artist, or Composer tag of the single selected or currently playing Music track. OR if a radio stream is currently playing and the provider has formatted the stream title correctly, such that Artist - Song Title is displayed, the script will do a Wikipedia search for the Artist name.
Note: A current bug (or feature) in the Music app (v1.1) prevents AppleScript from getting tag information from a streaming Apple Music track.
Latest version:
- Accounts for Music app bug/error getting tag info from streaming tracks
More information for Search Wikipedia v3.1 and download link is here.
NEW: Search Tower Records v1.0
This script will initiate a "search all" of the Tower Records website based on your choice of the Song Title or Artist or Album of the selected or playing Music app track. Results will be displayed in a new window in your default web browser.
Latest version:
- Initial release
More information for Search Tower Records v1.0 and download link is here.
NEW: Amazon Lookup v2.0
This script will look at the current selected track and take you to Amazon's web page for that track's Album. If nothing is selected, it will default to the current playing track. If nothing is playing it will not run. Works nicely with a keyboard shortcut.
Latest version:
- Accommodations for macOS 11 Big Sur
- Performance, UI and security enhancements
More information for Amazon Lookup v2.0 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Guitar Tab Search v2.0
This script performs a search for guitar tabs on the UltimateGuitar.com website using the Song Name or Artist of the playing or selected track. Results are displayed in your default web browser.
Latest version:
- Accommodations for macOS 10.15 Catalina and the Music app
- Performance and security enhancements
More information for Guitar Tab Search v2.0 and download link is here.
Script of the Day: AMG EZ Search
AMG EZ Search will initiate a "search all" of the allmusic website (also known as the "All Music Guide" or AMG) based on your choice of the Song Name or Artist or Album of the selected or playing iTunes track.
Results will be displayed in a new window in your default web browser.
More information and download is on this page.
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NEW: URL Track Info
I'm not sure when it happened, but the tags of URL tracks—internet streaming tracks—cannot be edited in the iTunes Get Info window. A Correspondent who apparently regularly made use of this ability recently drew my attention to it and inquired about a workaround.
URL Track Info will let you edit some of the tags of a selected URL track.
If you select more than one URL track it behaves like a multi-item edit window.
I didn't see much point in using a lot of tags, especially those in common with regular audio file tracks. You really want to keep these things away from file tracks in a playlist since they sort of hijack the flow when they come up for play.
More information and download is here.
NEW: Search IMDB
Search IMDB allows you to choose a search term from the pertinent tags of a selected iTunes track and then choose the type of search to make at the IMDB website.
Results are displayed in your designated default browser using a Finder routine. Most web browsers are not 'scriptable which somewhat limits what you can do with them with AppleScript.
And, what the heck. Here's a Rotten Tomatoes script I use on my "entertainment center" Mac Mini that uses the name of the selected track for a search:
tell application "iTunes"
set sel to selection
if sel is not {} and (length of sel) is 1 then
my processSearch(get name of item 1 of sel)
end if
end tell
to processSearch(n)
try
tell application "Finder" to open location ("http://www.rottentomatoes.com/search/?sitesearch=rt&search=" & n) as text
end try
end processSearch
UPDATED: Discogs Search Kit v1.1
About a month ago I started getting emails from users reporting that Discogs Search Kit wasn't getting track info correctly. I finally got around to making some fixes. This latest version of Discogs Search Kit makes accommodations for formatting changes at Discogs, which apparently were implemented a month or so ago (April 2011).
