Re: Controlling iTunes Remotely
Re: Controlling iTunes Remotely
- Subject: Re: Controlling iTunes Remotely
- From: "Johnny AppleScript" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 03:50:54 -0600
On 03/07/17 11:27 PM, "Matthew Smith" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
set oneTrack to item 1 of selection
Does this actually work for you? I don't get any value for this command. In
fact, nearly every standard command I try to apply so far to a selection,
window, view, play list, etc., besides, play, pause, next, etc., that is
applied to either a remote shared library or the iTunes Music Store returns:
-->"iTunes got an error: Unknown object type."
I'm still running iTunes 4.0; is this a 4.0.1-only feature?
I have similar needs/concerns as yours; my most recent foray into remote
management was the frustration of song ratings. I store 100% of my music on
a local server, and simply target said volume/folder as the iTunes Library
source on each client machine. Each client can then play *and* manage the
Library as required, with or without opening iTunes itself locally. The
drawback is that certain tags are not shared in the track itself, but in the
XML Library of the user. Makes sense. But it's a total pita when I want to
use my personal ratings across more than one machine.
So I wrote a couple of different scripts; they run in background (or are
called with a global keystroke when desired) and they first check to see if
the source is being played locally, or remotely by checking player states.
Then it looks for the track info on the playing source, and prompts me to
rate the current track, then applies the rating to the server play list
track entry, the local play list track entry, and any other play list track
entry I want.
What I have been also struggling with is similar to your issue, and that is
how to request a specific remote track. To date, I've been using NetTunes,
which simply rocks for any number of reasons, yet isn't the end-all, be-all.
But, for the purpose of browsing a remote shared Library, and telling that
specific song to play there, not locally, it's insanely great (and it's
AppleScriptable).
Back to the problem at hand, and spending oodles of hours to save $20 and to
gain an object lesson in AppleScript, I wonder if we couldn't approach the
problem by looking to the source text of the xml library file on the remote
machine? With some grep, it shouldn't be hard to get the specific track
match you're looking for -- assuming of course you can get past the error I
can't.
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