Lost in iTunes

Hey all,

I just tried to start understanding viewtopic.php?f=107&t=13889&start=15 and, well, I failed. Is it even the right direction to go in order to duplicate this typical functionality?

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tell application "iTunes"
   if player state = playing then
      --copy (get rating of current track) to trackRating
      -- repeat with theTrack in (get selection)
      set the rating of current track to ((rating of current track) - 20)
      set trackRating to (rating of current track)
      tell application "IndigoServer"
         set value of variable "iTunesStars" to trackRating / 20
      end tell
      -- end repeat
   end if
end tell

Short version of that code: It's an example of one of several things about iTunes that the iTunes integration doesn't cover. So now I'm wondering how to get and manipulate these values with Python. I get that it's the last "tell" that is the part that has to move to Python. But can I do it all in Python?

[jay (support)]

If you install the py-applescript module (which will ship with Indigo 7.1) as described in the AppleScript blog post, then this script will get the rating of the current track and insert it into a variable:

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import applescript
script_source = '''
tell application "iTunes"
    rating of current track
end tell
'''
compiled_script = applescript.AppleScript(source=script_source)
reply = compiled_script.run()
indigo.variable.updateValue(VARIDHERE, value=str(reply))

The value inserted in the variable will be whatever is returned by "rating of current track".

Is it possible to locate any items that contain any AppleScript w/o manually opening and looking in the 5 million places I might have cut and pasted some of it into - pls say yes, pls say there will be a zippy dippy AppleScript locater thingy in Indigo 7.1

[jay (support)]

We're looking in to it. It may not be part of the 7.1.0 release, but we'll look at doing something in the 7.1.x releases or potentially a separate script that just runs against an Indigo database file. But we'll figure something out.

Wow, cool - thx so much!