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Re: AppleScript-Users Digest, Vol 7, Issue 105
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Re: AppleScript-Users Digest, Vol 7, Issue 105


  • Subject: Re: AppleScript-Users Digest, Vol 7, Issue 105
  • From: Kevin Bradley <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:05:41 -0600

What you want is something that selects the track by the artist's name.  Like this:

Tell application "itunes"
	set theSong to file track of playlist 1 whose name is "push it" and artist is "Salt-N-Pepa"
	play theSong
end tell

Kevin Bradley
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"You may find, after a time, that having a thing is not as pleasing as wanting a thing. It is not logical, but it is often true."
-- Spock


On Feb 22, 2010, at 2:01 PM, email@hidden wrote:

> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:12:27 -0600
> From: Josh Cheek <email@hidden>
> Subject: how to tell iTunes to play specific song
> To: email@hidden
> Message-ID:
> 	<email@hidden>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> I can get the specific song I want, but can't figure out how to tell it to
> play it (the api is a little sparse)
>
> set start_time to 120 + 27
> set end_time to 120 + 42
> tell application "iTunes"
>    set my_search_results to (search playlist 1 for "Salt-N-Pepa" only
> artists)
>    play (track whose file track id is my_search_results)
>    set player position to start_time
>    delay end_time - start_time
>    stop
> end tell
>
>
> I can also get it to play the song like this
> tell application "iTunes"
>  play track "push it" in playlist 1
> end tell
>
> but it always finds "push it" by Garbage, which isn't the song I want it to
> play.
>
> I've been messing with this for a few hours now, and can't figure out what
> to do.
>
> Also, is there an API more prolific than the one in the Script Editor's
> library? The only AppleScript experience I have was some playing around in
> Automator.

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