| Hi, I need some help with this applescript. What I need to do is:
1. pull all tracks from the Library that have been played in the past week 2. sort tracks by most frequently played and condense the list to the top ten most frequently played tracks 3. save to itunes playlist 4. export that playlist as an XML document. 5. Upload that XML file to a server
So far I have been successful in 1, 3 and 5.
I can't figure out how to sort by the top ten most frequently played songs or export a playlist to an XML document. Can anyone offer any help?
Thanks
Below is a portion of my code without the uploading script because I am certain that works as-is:
set startDateUn to the (current date) - (7 * days) set endDateUn to the current date set masterList to "Library" set startDate to my format_date_using(startDateUn, "/", {"MM", "DD", "YY"}) set endDate to my format_date_using(endDateUn, "/", {"MM", "DD", "YY"}) set recentlyPlayed to ("Played " & startDate & " - " & endDate) set topTenList to {}
tell application "iTunes" --create folder for these playlists if one doesn't exist if not (exists folder playlist "Top Ten") then make new folder playlist with properties {name:"Top Ten"} end if
if exists playlist recentlyPlayed then delete playlist recentlyPlayed make new playlist in folder playlist "Top Ten" with properties {name:recentlyPlayed} else make new playlist in folder playlist "Top Ten" with properties {name:recentlyPlayed} end if
copy (tracks in playlist masterList whose played date > startDateUn and played date < endDateUn) to playlist recentlyPlayed end tell
on format_date_using(this_date_record, delimiter_string, format_list) -- get numeric day set numeric_day to day of this_date_record -- get month set month_name to month of this_date_record -- convert month to number set list_of_months to {January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December} repeat with i from 1 to 12 if item i of list_of_months is month_name then set numeric_month to i exit repeat end if end repeat -- get numeric year as text set numeric_year to year of this_date_record as string set formatted_date to "" -- count number of items in list set item_count to count of format_list -- parse format list repeat with i from 1 to item_count set this_item to item i of format_list if this_item is "D" then set formatted_date to formatted_date & numeric_day as string else if this_item is "DD" then if numeric_day is less than 10 then set numeric_day to ("0" & (the numeric_day as string)) set formatted_date to formatted_date & numeric_day as string else if this_item is "M" then set formatted_date to formatted_date & numeric_month as string else if this_item is "MM" then if numeric_month is less than 10 then set numeric_month to ("0" & (the numeric_month as string)) set formatted_date to formatted_date & numeric_month as string else if this_item is "YY" then set formatted_date to formatted_date & ((characters 3 thru 4 of numeric_year) as string) else if this_item is "YYYY" then set formatted_date to formatted_date & numeric_year end if if i is not item_count then -- add delimiter set formatted_date to formatted_date & delimiter_string as string end if end repeat return formatted_date end format_date_using
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