good ways of communicating info from AS with non-scriptable apps?
good ways of communicating info from AS with non-scriptable apps?
- Subject: good ways of communicating info from AS with non-scriptable apps?
- From: Alastair Leith <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2015 19:58:24 +0800
I’m looking for a good way to share small blobs of info from iTunes about the current song and play-head position (and maybe next-song if not in shuffle mode) with a Quartz Composer composition/app that will be a Visualiser. There’s a stock way to bring limited info into QC from iTunes but it’s unreliable (on my system at least) and doesn’t pass all the info i need. Going in the other direction, I may want to flip iTune’s shuffle mode on/off from the composition/app and communicate that to iTunes.
The ‘easiest’ way I can think of is just writing an XML to disk with AS to somewhere like /usr/bin/visualiser/. Quartz Composer (QC) has text and XML file importer patches and I can prompt once a second to check the file for changes and parse the data I need.
Other ways of sharing info with QC using stock patches and 3rd party patches which are in-memory are OSC, MIDI, WebSocket and Network patches for broadcasting and receiving. I will probably need two-way comms but nothing fancy. MIDI won’t do it but all the others can transmit structured text objects.
Are there any ways I could investigate for maybe AS invoking a shell command to get info back and forth on OSC or some kind of IP/web-socket methods?
Best Alastair
Alastair I Leith
Useful Design
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