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30 Most Recent RSS FeedUPDATED: Lossless to AAC Workflow v2.2
If you're one of the Correspondents who over the past couple of years have been suggesting I add AIFF-ability to Lossless to AAC Workflow, then the new v2.2 is for you.
These are two scripts that assist with importing/managing Apple Lossless or AIFF audio files and sending converted AAC copies to a mounted iPod set to "manually manage songs and videos". Yes, iTunes 9.1+ will auto-encode tracks to iPod, but only 128kbps AAC; these scripts enable to use your Custom AAC encoder settings.
No More Mute
I just noticed that "Mute" has been removed from iTunes' contextual menu in the Dock as of iTunes v9.1. Man, that was handy. Of course, a script hooked up to a shortcut does the job:
tell application "iTunes" to set mute to (not mute)
I'm pretty sure there is no other on-board control to toggle mute otherwise.
Join Together v6.0.1 Available
Join Together v6.0.1 fixes some bugs that arrived in the v6.0 version:
- fixed issue whereby file would not finish up export
- addressed issue with QuickTime not creating new document
- fixed issues that emerged with iTunes 9.1
- fixed error if no user playlists [Plus version]
- other minor fixes
Several Correspondents provided a lot of excellent trouble-shooting help on this. I really appreciate their time and effort. Future users salute them!
After Further Investigation...
Didn't care for the iDisplay. It was not very responsive when trying to run iTunes from the iPad. Although it did work. There was just a lot of delay. I will certainly check them out again when I see some updates. Someone recommended Pad Mouse and that'll do for the time being. But it could use some finessing as well. No rush! Like the rest of us neither of these outfits had an iPad to work with until Saturday.
iPad-Media Center Touch Control
So I saw the iDisplay that allows the iPad to be a second monitor to your desktop and thought: Perfect! This is exactly what I've been wanting to do with my Mac mini media center. I imagine I might even write an app or script that can reside in the second iPad monitor to control iTunes. I'll post later on how it works out.
Join Together v6.0 Bug Reports
Several users have reported (and are helping me trouble-shoot) a bug in the latest Join Together, which is v6.0. Essentially, the issue seems to be that the join never leaves "Finishing export". I'm working to solve the issue and have an update early in the coming week. Thanks for your patience.
iTunes 9.1 - Author column
In View Options for Books, the "Genre" column has been removed, and the "Artist" column appears to be renamed as "Author". In AppleScript it looks like the "Author" is accessible as a book track's artist. Also, FWIW, I'm not seeing my "Jeeves" ePub book in the XML.
UPDATED: Append to Selected Tag v2.1
Append to Selected Tag got an update to v2.1. A couple of days ago when I posted v2.0 I left out a line of code that prevented the thing from working most of the time. Thanks to Correspondent David R. for bringing it to my attention.
iTunes 9.1 - I Got It Wrong
After a re-start, sure enough, AppleScript Application Bundles are back in the menu.
iTunes 9.1 - Books
Following Kirk's tip, I downloaded a version of P.G. Wodehouse's "Right Ho, Jeeves" from Gutenberg, added it to iTunes, and did some 'script to it.
It behaves like a track in that it has most of the same properties, can be copied to playlists, and so on. The track kind of a track-that-is-a book is "Book", at least my Wodehouse book's is "Book". Properties that don't apply to "bookness", such as start and finish, time, and so on, return zero or null values. Still, some operations you would perform on a music track will error when you run them on a book track, eg: setting the lyrics property.
Books can have artwork. And—perhaps obviously—Books can't be copied to an iPod/iPhone.
More as it develops.
[UPDATE: the kind of a book track may actually vary depending on the, uh, kind of book. That is, if iTunes "knows" it's a book from iBooks, then the kind may be "Purchased iBook" for all I know.]
