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Apple has released iTunes 9.0.3. Fixes:
- iTunes no longer ignores your "Remember password for purchases" setting.
- Addresses problems with syncing some Smart Playlists and Podcasts with iPod.
- Resolves a problem recognizing when iPod is connected.
- Addresses issues that affect stability and performance.
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.
Dave Taylor on Dupin
Dave Taylor is one of my favorite coding guys; he's got the know-how on everything from HTML to UNIX. So I was pretty bowled over to see Dave's take on Dupin v2.1 in a post on de-dupin' iTunes. Many thanks!
Dupin v2.1 Released
Dupin v2.1 is now available.
Dupin is your iTunes duplicates manager.
With Dupin you can:
- Very quickly find all sets of duplicate iTunes tracks based on your choice of criteria
- Select the "Keeper" tracks from among a number of duplicates automatically using a variety of versatile filtering options
- Consolidate the play, skip, and ratings information from all tracks in a Dupe Group to the single "Keeper" track
- Re-populate iTunes playlists replacing "non-Keeper" tracks with "Keeper" tracks
- Purge duplicate tracks from iTunes and send files to the Trash
- Manage intentionally duplicated tracks
- Copy tracks to new iTunes playlists
- View duplicates in non-loaded libraries created with iTunes' multiple library feature or iTunes Library Manager
- View duplicates in iTunes libraries on other machines on your local network
- Sort tracks and view track info
- Export a list of duplicates to a text file
- Locate tracks in the Finder and in iTunes
- Audition tracks
New in Dupin v2.1:
- runs under Snow Leopard or better only
- adds aproximate time matching for Time Criteria (settable to :01 ≤ n ≤ :10 seconds)
- adds File Path column to main table
- made task additions to contextual menus
- some warning dialogs now have suppression/reset options
- "Search" configurable with categories, re-located to toolbar
- other minor GUI improvements and alterations
- speed enhancements
- addresses toolbar customization issue
- addresses threading issue
- addresses memory leak issue
More information and download links are here.
Size of Files, Size of Library
It's not the size of your "iTunes Media" files that best describes how big your media file collection is. Often, querying Correspondents will report that their iTunes Media folder is so many GBs (or so many days-worth). But if that total includes a lot of video then the number of files is smaller than the same-sized folder containing just 128kbps audio files (eg: my "Star Trek" with Extras at 6GB+ is a little smaller than my "Compilations" folder which contains over a thousand files). Very few of my scripts and apps directly work on the files in the iTunes Media folder anyway, so in many cases its size is irrelevant; scripts work with tracks in iTunes, so the number of tracks is more important than the size of their files. A better relative measurement for comparison purposes is the size of your "iTunes Music Library.xml" file (located in ~/Music/iTunes). It has an entry for each track in your library and all (well, most) playlists. Therefore, the more tracks and playlists you have the larger the XML file will be.
Roll Yer Own iTunes LP
Apple has posted everything you need "to create a rich, interactive experience around your music and movies. All right in iTunes." It's a complete development guide including templates, best practices, and the latest TuneKit.
Confirmed: iTunes 9.0.2 Script Menu App Bundle Bug
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.
Apps Not Displaying
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.
Interesting iTunes 9.0.2 Mystery
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.
iTunes 9.0.2 is Released
iTunes 9.0.2 has been released. "iTunes 9.0.2 adds support for Apple TV software version 3.0, adds an option for a dark background for Grid View, and improves support for accessibility." Meaning that AppleTV has been updated, too, with support for iTunes LP and Extras, internet radio, and Genius. Nice.
NEW: Music Folder Files Not Added v2.0
Well, depending on your point of view, perhaps this is an update. Music Folder Files Not Added v2.0 is a Snow Leopard-only application (MFFNA v1.1 is still posted and will run on Tiger and Leopard) that will list the file paths of the files in your designated "iTunes Music" folder which are not in iTunes' library. Additionally, you can select a different parent folder and its contents will be compared to the iTunes library. You can then Add a selection of found files to iTunes or move them to the Trash.
This version was developed with Xcode using the new AppleScriptObjC framework and as such will only run on Snow Leopard.
