Comments on: Windows iTunes Scripts Downloads

By: straylight

straylight — Wed, 05 May 2010 23:52:50 +0000

sorry, im completely new to scripts, and dont have a clue what im doing wrong here.
when i click ‘download’ for the ‘has lyrics’ script, there is just text, which i save in a text document, which i then save as a .js file. when i try to open that, it gives me an error saying:
line: 17
char: 1
error: expected ‘catch’
code: 800a0409
source: microsoft jscript compilation error

should i post what text im saving? again, i dont know how to write scripts, so i have no idea what an error on line 17 character 1 would look like… or if thats even whats wrong…

By: Alvin B.

Alvin B. — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:29:54 +0000

Excellent scripts. Would love to see scripts that let you set the rating for the currently playing track… that way I could map it to my F-Keys and simply hit the F-Key I want on my programmable keyboard to launch a script to rate the current track 1-5 stars. Might manage to write it myself, dunno.

By: Sammy

Sammy — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:32:46 +0000

hey there! I am thinking of something that would be very helpful… I use smart playlists heavily and having songs in the right GENRE is critical, but through apple’s rigidity, the ipod does not display Genre of the title while playing. A work around would be to copy basic fields to the fitst line of the Lyrics section… I am not good with scripting but this seems doable to me. I think they key element would be to insert it at the begining of the lyrics with a line break after to ensure that those songs with lyrics do not get overwritten and the user does not need to scroll to the end to get the genre – do you think this is possible?

By: Sammy

Sammy — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:11:46 +0000

thanks for this! I have been searching for a long, long time for a script that would allow me to append the comments and grouping fields ( I have several codes for acoustic versions, language etc…) As obvious as this may seem, I think it is worth puting the idea out there that if you edit several copies of the script in a folder with appropriate file names and content it will make your life easier on repetitive tasks. i for example have several simmilar copies to add , , and so on to identify the language of different groups of songs, all saved in an easy to access folder. Again, thanks for making this available – the world needs more nice people like you!

By: liquid parallax

liquid parallax — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:03:08 +0000

Amy,

I think your settings are set in your Operating System (Windows?) to automatically open Javascripts in Dreamweaver. See if you can open with itunes. I switched to a mac, so I can’t test out directly what is happening in your case. Sorry to come short why your computer does that…

By: Amy

Amy — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:09:11 +0000

I tried the adjust play count one, but it didn’t work. I saved the file and changed it from a *.txt to *.js but when I try to open it(double-click) after highlighting the songs in my itunes it just opens the script in Dreamweaver. Can you please help?

By: Michael S

Michael S — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 01:32:42 +0000

I really like your script for adding comments, is it possible to have it add comments in particular order. For example I have a spreadsheet with a list of what a shortcut means to me and I add them to each particular comments field. Some aply to the whol album and Some to the whole band.
One song’s comments might look like this
(B) (D) (G) (J) (K) (L) (O) (P) (B1) (G1) (P1) (DD1) (B2) (C2) (G2) (A3) (B3) (C3) (K3) (U3) (EE3) (C4) (P4) (AA4) (SS4) TT4)
If I sort with the comments colum the order only varies slightly with added or removed codes. Each code has a playlist that searches for it (D) is for Driving music and (E) is for Easy listening, right through to (C4) has bass guitar and (SS4) has vocals.

By: liquid parallax

liquid parallax — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:53:10 +0000

I admit that the lyric search is a bit buggy. Although it handles selected items, it seems like it somehow browses through the entire library. It just takes a real long time, but it should work and only match selected items in the end. I’m not sure why it uses so much resources, but if you try an overnight search if you have a large library, let me know if that is the issue.

By: Violet

Violet — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 06:40:59 +0000

I was using the lyrics search and was wondering, I highlighted items from a playlist but it did not seem to work…is this normal and I just have to live with it?

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