Negative Space: iTunes
- Cleaning iTunes track information
- Python and appscript make it easy to modify iTunes track information in batches—if you’re willing to get your hands dirty on the Mac OS X command line.
- Getting the selected playlist in iTunes
- It took a while to figure out how to get iTunes’s selected playlist as opposed to the current playlist in AppleScript.
- Importing vinyl into iTunes
- This script takes songs split by marker from SoundStudio and converts them directly into iTunes, setting track number, track total, and album name along with the song title.
- iTunes Alarm
- Set up iTunes to start playing at a specified time, but to not play if you are on vacation and want to sleep in.
- Listen to the Music
- Apple’s new music store is a great step forward for music lovers, but it’s still a long ways from making music downloads as useful as buying a CD.
- Play this song backwards in iTunes
- Using AppleScript and Quicktime, you can play any song backwards. Find out what Fred Schneider was saying on “Detour Thru Your Mind”.
- Run a script on inserting an audio CD
- You can run a script every time you insert an audio CD to ensure that iTunes is ready for import.
- A simple iTunes sleep timer
- If you enjoy listening to music for a while before you go to sleep, but don’t want to have iTunes on all night, you can use AppleScript to make iTunes and your Mac do what you want it to do.
- Using appscript in Python to control GUI applications
- The appscript module for Python lets you control scriptable applications on the command line without having to coordinate your command-line script with your Applescript applications.
