Re: iTunes : "File permission error"
Re: iTunes : "File permission error"
- Subject: Re: iTunes : "File permission error"
- From: "Hiroshi T." <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 12:19:28 +0900
Thank you for your support.
Here is my Music directory listing:
[kelvino:~:6] ls -alo ~/Music/iTunes/
total 50472
drwxr-xr-x 6 hrst unknown - 204 28 May 10:55 ./
drwx------ 10 hrst unknown - 340 28 Nov 11:38 ../
drwxr-xr-x 4 hrst unknown - 136 28 Dec 11:43 Previous iTunes
Libraries/
-rw-r--r-- 1 hrst unknown - 13725374 28 May 10:55 iTunes Library
drwxr-xr-x 3 hrst unknown - 102 21 Jan 2003 iTunes Music/
-rw-r--r-- 1 hrst unknown - 12115604 28 May 10:55 iTunes Music
Library.xml
[kelvino:~:7]
I store music files in an external FireWire hard disk, where "iTunes
Music folder" also resides.
Even if I set the folder for "iTunes Music folder" to other place than
~/Music in iTunes Preference,
iTunes keeps on using "iTunes Music Library.xml" and "iTunes Library"
under ~/Music/iTunes (of course).
The "File permission error" occurs at the line:
set bookmarkable of curTrack to false
I use two recording applications: Audio Hijack Pro and RadioShark.
In RadioShark I set file creation parameters to bookmarkable AAC and it
creates files with extension ".m4b".
These files cause "File permission error" in my script.
In Audio Hijack Pro I set file creation parameters to bookmarkable and
non-bookmarkable Apple Lossless,
which I call B-files and N-files, respectively. Audio Hijack Pro
creates files with extension ".m4a" for both B- and N-files.
I also made a script to make tracks bookmarkable, which I call B-script.
Let us call my script to make tracks non-bookmarkable N-script.
B-files cause "File permission error" in both B- and N-script,
while N-files do not cause such error in either B- or N-script.
I can turn bookmarkable on and off for N-files, which I checked by
actual playing in iTunes.
I cannot check all tracks that I have but exceptions to the above law
are not found so far.
On May 27, 2006, at 11:45 PM, Axel Luttgens wrote:
On 27/05/06 9:12, Hiroshi T. wrote:
Hello,
I made a small script to make selected tracks not bookmarkable:
tell application "iTunes"
set sel to a reference to selection
repeat with i from 1 to count items of sel
set curTrack to item i of sel
if class of curTrack is file track then
set bookmarkable of curTrack to false
end if
end repeat
end tell
But "File permission error" occurs. I'm using iTunes 6.0.4.
Tracks are recorded either in Apple Lossless or in AAC format and
have ".m4a" extension.
The song files and "iTunes Music Library.xml" have write permission
and I can change their track number, for example.
Any ideas?
Above code works without a problem here.
It seems you really have a file access problem (as far as one may
trust the error message, of course).
Assuming your iTunes library is at its usual location, could you show
the output of following command:
ls -alo ~/Music/iTunes/
executed in Terminal.app?
Could you also tell us on which command exactly your AppleScript code
raises the "File permission error"?
HTH,
Axel
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