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Re: How to access iTunes using cocoa
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Re: How to access iTunes using cocoa


  • Subject: Re: How to access iTunes using cocoa
  • From: "Paul Sanders" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:41:42 -0000

I use Cocoa's NSAppleScript class.  This seems to work fine on Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard.

Should I be scared of the 'false timeout' bug?  Mostly I just want to add tracks to the iTunes Music Library, although an efficient way to find a track by artist and title would be nice - scanning large libraries in AppleScript is very slow.

And check out Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes - there's some interesting stuff in there.

Paul Sanders.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Neuburg" <email@hidden>
To: "Ramesh P" <email@hidden>
Cc: <email@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 5:27 PM
Subject: Re: How to access iTunes using cocoa


On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:18:38 +0530, Ramesh P <email@hidden>
said:
>Hi,
>Is it possible to access iTunes from cocoa application?  Is there any open
>source framework for accessing iTunes?

I use objc-appscript for this. It has some advantages over Apple's Scripting
Bridge (for one thing, it's backwards compatible to 10.4; for another, it is
not subject to the 10.6 Apple event "false timeout" bug).

http://appscript.sourceforge.net/objc-appscript/index.html

m.

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A fool + a tool + an autorelease pool = cool!
AppleScript: the Definitive Guide - Second Edition!
http://www.tidbits.com/matt/default.html#applescriptthings



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