On 2/11/05 at -0500 Marc K. Myers said this
>I wrote a script to do a Google query to get the lyrics of whatever
>track iTunes is playing. It assembles the URL and then uses "open
>location" to send it. I found that
>
>open location theURL
>
>doesn't do anything. But if I say
>
>tell application "Safari" to open location theURL
>
>it works perfectly. I'm wondering why that is. My understanding was
>that the osax could be used anywhere and would open the default
>application for the protocol of the URL.
It's because iTunes intercepts the "open location" command then tries to open it as an audio stream and silently fails to do so.
From the iTunes dictionary -
open location: Opens a URL to an audio stream
open location [string] -- the URL to open
The solution, as you've indicated, is to direct the URL to something other than iTunes or to remove it from within an iTunes "tell". Using the 'my' keyword would probably also work.
JBS
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