Re: iTunes scripting - comparing playlists
Re: iTunes scripting - comparing playlists
- Subject: Re: iTunes scripting - comparing playlists
- From: Mr Tea <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 13:26:11 +0000
On 16 Feb 2004, at 8.33 am, Stephen Schaefer wrote:
I have 5 smart playlists in iTunes that contain songs that have played
each of the last 5 days separately (i.e., Last played is not in the
last 2 days, Last Played is in the 3 days, etc). I want to compare
the tracks in each of these playlists: specifically, I'd like to set
up an expression that finds tracks that appear in 2 or more of the 5
playlists. For example, the script would look all the tracks in the
first list and see if any are also in one or more of the other four
playlists. Then it would check the second playlist and see if any of
the tracks were in one more or more of list three, four, or five, and
on down the line.
Hi, Stephen.
Here's a script that will find any tracks that appear more than once in
a specified list of playlists. Hope it does what you need.
--===========================================================
tell application "iTunes"
activate
set d1 to database ID of every track of playlist "Last 1 Day"
set d2 to database ID of every track of playlist "Last 2 Days"
set d3 to database ID of every track of playlist "Last 3 Days"
set d4 to database ID of every track of playlist "Last 4 Days"
set d5 to database ID of every track of playlist "Last 5 Days"
end tell
set dList to d1 & d2 & d3 & d4 & d5
set mostPlayed to {}
repeat ((count dList) - 1) times
set thisID to item 1 of dList
if thisID is in rest of dList then set end of mostPlayed to thisID
set dList to rest of dList
end repeat
tell application "iTunes"
repeat with trk in (every track of masterList)
if database ID of trk is in mostPlayed then set rating of trk to 100
end repeat
end tell
--===========================================================
(Any lines that abut the left margin of the message window have been
wrapped and should be re-connected to the end of the previous line.)
The last part of the script (inside the second iTunes tell block) is a
tad sluggish. More knowledgeable scripters may know how to speed this
up...
Nick
pp Mr Tea
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