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Re: Best way to monitor iTunes track changes?
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Re: Best way to monitor iTunes track changes?


  • Subject: Re: Best way to monitor iTunes track changes?
  • From: Marc Palmer <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 16:30:02 +0100


On 14 Apr 2006, at 16:11, Emmanuel wrote:

At 2:06 PM +0100 4/14/06, Marc Palmer wrote:
Is there a clean and efficient way to detect track changes in iTunes from AppleScript? I just want to know when the track changes so that I can get the track info etc (which is the easy part).

Do you think that tracking a track change could boil down to tracking the changes in "iTunes Music Library.xml"?

Well to do that wouldn't we need to poll the file anyway, or can we listen for changes to a file with AppleScript? I'm pretty new to Mac OS and AppleScript.


In short, yes probably this is true, but I'm not sure it offers many benefits over polling itunes every 60s or so. The bit about this approach is that it bugs me that my AppleScript will have to be running all the time.

Having my tiny applescript launched only when the track changes would be best for system performance.

Cheers

~ ~ ~
Marc Palmer (email@hidden)
AnyWare Ltd. - Consultant

Authorized JIRA reseller, support and solutions provider

http://www.anyware.co.uk/

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