Re: scripting audion to not quit till finished encoding
Re: scripting audion to not quit till finished encoding
- Subject: Re: scripting audion to not quit till finished encoding
- From: Kate Jenkins <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:41:20 -0500 (EST)
This is long delayed, but thanks for your response to my applescript
question a while back.
I found a script addition called "wait application" that's supposed to
wait till an application is finished with a process. Apparantly it works
with some processes but not this particular one.
If you're interested, it's available here:
http://www.osaxen.com/index.php?id=wait_application
Take care,
Kate
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Obviously, you need to take the quit out of the tell block - just don't
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tell Audion to quit.
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But if you want to get Audion out of the way after the encoding is done,
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the sad news is I can only offer commiseration... it's nearly impossible
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to know when a long process is completed by an app, certainly no way I've
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found that's elegant.
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~Phi
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"waiting to be schooled now by the script masters on the list..."
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>Hi fellow scripters,
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>I'm writing an applescript to
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>1. launch audion
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>2. rip the cd in the drive to mp3
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>then 3. shut down the computer when finished.
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>--my basic script thus far
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>tell application "Audion 2"
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> activate
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> make new playlist
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> add file "Audio CD 1:" to playlist 1
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> encode from playlist 1
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> quit
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>end tell
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>This works fine except the script doesn't know to wait for the items to
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>encode before quitting; it just goes rapidfire through the instructions
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>and quits Audion only a few seconds into the encoding process.
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>I've tried various things like:
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> repeat while application "Audion 2" is busy
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> --do nothing
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> end repeat
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>(the audion dictionary doesn't know the meaning of "busy" - thinks it's an
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>undefined variable)
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>but I've had no luck. Any suggestions?
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>Kate
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>I'd also like to improve the "add file Audio CD 1:" because this only
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>works if it's the first CD I've inserted since restart. Is there a way to
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>specify "the CD currently in the drive?" Any help will be greatly
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>appreciated. Thanks.
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