Re: How to determine if iTunes has been updated or a sync has occurred?
Re: How to determine if iTunes has been updated or a sync has occurred?
- Subject: Re: How to determine if iTunes has been updated or a sync has occurred?
- From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:13:00 -0500
On Mar 25, 2012, at 11:46 AM, Michael Crawford wrote:
> I examined the file you pointed me to and it looks like data that is updated when iTunes is installed or a software update is applied. Nice to know that data is there but it does not appear to be what I need. What I really want to know is when a user adds or removes one or more tracks to their iTunes library. I'm assuming there is actually no published property or method for determining this but I thought, if there is, AppleScript Users would know about it.
Oh. OK. I looked around and found this file
/Users/username/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music Library.xml
To take a look at its contents, make a copy onto your desktop; change the extension from xml to plist; then open the file with Property List Editor or Xcode.
I think the info you need is in the 'Tracks' dictionary/record. You can read this into AppleScript using "System Events", but you have to use the Xml Suite, not the not the Property List Suite. Somewhere I have the code to read 'Tracks' into a record, but I don't remember where it is at the moment.
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