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Refreshing itunes selection
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Refreshing itunes selection


  • Subject: Refreshing itunes selection
  • From: Lewis Butler <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 21:12:23 -0600

Since iTunes 4 includes artwork, I want to force itunes to refresh the selection so that I can easily see if a track has associated artwork. I through this together and I have to admit, I expected it to work:

on idle
tell application "System Events"
tell process "iTunes"
keystroke "L" with command down
delay 5
end tell
end tell
end idle

I saved it as an application and told it to stay open. All I get is a system beep after 5 seconds. Trying to force itunes to the foreground didn't seem to work either.

Does itunes HAVE to be foregrounded in order to send it a command key?

I also tried various variations of

tell application "iTunes"
if player state is playing then
set selection of current playlist to current track
delay 5
end if
end tell


but I just get a "iTunes got an error: Unknown object type." error

or "Can't set selection of +class cPly; to +class cFlT; id 13125 of +class cLiP; id 7959 of +class cSrc; id 32 of application \"iTunes\"."

if I say

set selection of playlist to current track

nothing I've tried will change the selection in iTunes to the currently playing track besides my manually pressing command-l.

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or should you?
-George Carlin
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