I'm trying to run an Applescript that will play a song in iTunes. The problem is I need the song to have a specific artist as well. Whenever I write some script that uses "artist" I get an error stating that artist could not be accessed.
tell application "iTunes"
activate
play track "My Song"
end tell
this code works to play a track but I also need to specify the artist so that a track with the same name isn't accidentally played. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Sam
Adjust as necessary.
tell application "iTunes"
set mySongs to every track of library playlist 1 whose artist is "Styx" and name is "boat on the river"
repeat with aSong in mySongs
play aSong
end repeat
end tell
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I have an issue with my music library.
Some songs I am unable to play because they cannot be found locally.
Here's an example of the error messages I get when playing a specific song:
The song ... could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?
I can simply press Cancel and the song will be matched via the Apple Music Service.
This allows me to then play the song.
This issue has been discussed here, albeit not in an automated way. Hence, I would like to find an automated solution.
For this, I took the approach of looping through my library by playing each song.
By default, if a song cannot be found, the script automatically skips to the next song.
However, I would like the script to deal with the "file not found" errors and press Cancel.
My current attempt unfortunately does not work:
-- Play first song in library (turn off shuffle and repeat)
set i to 4000 --number of songs in library
repeat while i > 0
tell application "Music" to play (next track)
tell application "System Events"
key code 53
end tell
set i to i - 1
end repeat
How can I force the script to deal with these pop-up errors?
Note: I am also open to any other, more efficient solution to my problem if you have any suggestions. I decided not to go for the Locate option because it takes more time and I will delete any unreferenced songs from my disk at a later stage anyways.
UPDATED VERSION. Following script doesn't play tracks and programatically clicks button "Cancel" when track is corrupted. Like described by OP fixing tracks manually workflow:
tell application "Music"
activate -- required
tell source "Library"
repeat with nextTrack in tracks
try
with timeout of 2 seconds
set theResult to play (contents of nextTrack)
end timeout
theResult
on error
delay 1
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Music" to tell window 1 to if UI element "Cancel" exists then click UI element "Cancel"
end try
stop
end repeat
end tell
end tell
The following script does not work as I expect:
tell application "iTunes"
tell source "Library"
tell playlist "Music"
set theTracks to (every track whose album artist is "xxx" and album is "Fiddle Tunes 2006 Concert")
count of theTracks
end tell
end tell
end tell
It matches tracks whose album artist property is empty. It should match no tracks. That particular album title has no tracks with a non-empty album artist field (and no tracks with the compilation flag set).
It I replace album artist with artist, it matches no tracks, which is correct.
Am I missing something obvious or is this a bug in iTunes?
It was a bug, fixed in macOS 10.12.5 and iTunes 12.6.1.25.
I know that there are many commands in AppleScript for Spotify such as the simple playpause command, but how would I pull a playlist's information from Spotify, and paste it in a choose from list? I would like it to take all of the songs from wherever you're listening from, and paste them in a choose from list so you can choose which song you would like to listen to. Is this even possible? Can I do something similar?
Also, how would you enable/disable shuffling?
Additionally, is there a way to search Spotify through AppleScript?
I'm not sure if any of these are possible, and Google doesn't have any info on this right now. Does anyone know how to do this?
The Spotify AppleScript implementation does not have specific commands to get at playlist information -- it only exposes "current track" to get info about the currently-playing track and "next track" to play the next track. You can work around this limitation to build an AppleScript array containing all the tracks in a current playlist.
set trackNameList to {}
set trackIDList to {}
tell application "Spotify"
activate
set shuffling to false
set repeating to true
set sound volume to 0
if player state is not playing then
playpause
end if
set trackID to spotify url of current track
repeat while trackIDList does not contain trackID
set end of trackIDList to trackID
set end of trackNameList to name of current track
next track
delay 1 -- otherwise Spotify misbehaves
set trackID to spotify url of current track
end repeat
end tell
tell me to activate
set chosenNames to choose from list trackNameList without multiple selections allowed
set chosenName to (item 1 of chosenNames) as string
repeat with i from 1 to count of trackNameList
set itsName to (item i of trackNameList) as string
if itsName is chosenName then
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
set trackID to (item i of trackIDList) as string
tell application "Spotify"
activate
set sound volume to 100
play track trackID
end tell
There is no AppleScript support for searching in Spotify.
I'm writing an Applescript that displays a notification with the name, album, and artist of the current Spotify track. Yes, I'm aware there is already an app that does this, but even with the latest version, it's very buggy and behaves erratically.
So far, I have a good little script. Here it is:
repeat until application "Spotify" is not running
tell application "Spotify"
set theSong to name of current track
set theAlbum to album of current track
set theArtist to artist of current track
set theTime to player position
set theDuration to duration of current track
end tell
(* This sets the amount of delay to the length of the song minus the current place in the song, which leaves us with the amount of time left until the next song plays.*)
set delayTime to theDuration - theTime + 0.5
tell application "Spotify"
if player state is playing then
display notification theArtist with title theSong subtitle theAlbum
end if
delay delayTime
end tell
end repeat
Basically, the problem with this is if I pause or change the track, delay stays the same and thus doesn't display the notification when the song starts.
I used delay in this script because I don't really know a better way of checking for the end of a track. Is there any Applescript event for the end of a song (or the beginning of a new one?)
Thanks.
P.S., If this question is too complicated, feel free to ask more.
Use a loop to check the current track, exit the loop when the song change
repeat until application "Spotify" is not running
tell application "Spotify"
set theSong to name of current track
set theAlbum to album of current track
set theArtist to artist of current track
set thisTrack to current track
if player state is playing then
display notification theArtist with title theSong subtitle theAlbum
repeat until thisTrack is current track
delay 3
end repeat
end if
end tell
end repeat
I am using iTunes to convert a large .aif file to a much smaller .mp3 file. The filename changes each day because I am adding the date to the name. So, a file named "abcxyz 2-2-2014" gets converted in iTunes. After the conversion, I want to delete it from iTunes. I'm trying to use Applescript to search for the file and delete it. I'm trying this:
on deleteTrack(trackName)
tell application "iTunes"
set theTrack to track named trackName of playlist "Library"
set songFile to location of theTrack
delete theTrack
end tell
tell application "Finder" to delete songFile
end deleteTrack
on run
tell application "iTunes"
set result to (file tracks whose name contains "abcxyz")
repeat with t in result
deleteTrack(name of t as string)
end repeat
end tell
end run
I found the deleteTrack routine which works perfectly if you pass it a string like this:
on run
deleteTrack("abcxyz 2-2-2014")
end run
But that requires that I know the exact name of the track, which I don't. The error that I get is "Can't continue deleteTrack" ..with the deleteTrack(name of t as string) line selected in Applescript Editor.
Thanks for any help.
You should re-read the material about AppleScript's handlers. Because your handler call is inside of a tell application "iTunes" block, AppleScript is looking in iTunes for deleteTrack. Try this instead:
my deleteTrack(name of t as string)