iTunes UDF

[torels]

OK

but I still don't get what you want to do...

Do you want to navigate with the KeyBoard in the iTunes window?

[lunkan]

no I want to navigete with a script in iTunes window and rhen select an album with a script.

I had no problems with play/pause and next song, that is doable for me.

[lunkan]

Im using homeseer for steering la ot of things and also want to navigate thru iTunes and select albums. Im going to use HSTouch with autoit scripts for this if possible. Tried vith next song to see if the idea works and it does.

Edited December 9, 2008 by lunkan

[Function]

I thought this thread would have had a million replies by now because of how useful this script is, but when I realized it's only two pages, I figured it's time to praise you, torels for making this script. I've been using it for a long time to delete songs from my iTunes. It's been a boon to my life. Thanks

I'm also looking for a way to set the album art for my whole library. I was thinking of downloading it with Album Art Downloader because it has a command line interface and then setting it with this script. Does anyone know how I would go about automating this process?

[Function]

How can I test to see if a song has artwork associated with it? I want to make a playlist of the songs that don't have album artwork

[torels]

here is a way to do it

#include <iTunes.au3>
_iTunes_Start()
$f = _iTunes_Current_ArtworkSaveToTmp()
If FileExists($f) And FileGetSize($f)>0 Then
    MsgBox(0,"","Yes. Artwork exists")
Else
    MsgBox(0,"","Nope. No artwork for this song!")
EndFunc
FileDelete($f)

[senthor]

Small example...

It connects iTunes with the windows media keys on keyboard and wmc remote.

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#NoTrayIcon
#RequireAdmin

global $HKstate = false
Global $iTunesApp
Global $Library_Tracks
Global $file
Global $path
_iTunes_Start()
HotKeySet("{MEDIA_STOP}", "SwitchHK")
SwitchHK()

While 1
    Sleep(100)
WEnd

Func SwitchHK()
    If _IsPressed(23) then Exit
    If not $HKstate Then
        HotKeySet("{MEDIA_NEXT}", "_iTunes_Next")
        HotKeySet("{MEDIA_PREV}", "_iTunes_Prev")
        HotKeySet("{MEDIA_PLAY_PAUSE}", "_iTunes_Play_Pause")
        HotKeySet("{VOLUME_DOWN}", "_iTunes_Vol_Down")
        HotKeySet("{VOLUME_UP}", "_iTunes_Vol_Up")
        $HKstate = true
    ElseIf $HKstate Then
        HotKeySet("{MEDIA_NEXT}")
        HotKeySet("{MEDIA_PREV}")
        HotKeySet("{MEDIA_PLAY_PAUSE}")
        HotKeySet("{VOLUME_DOWN}")
        HotKeySet("{VOLUME_UP}")
        $HKstate = false
    EndIf
    return $HKstate
EndFunc

Func _iTunes_Start()
    $iTunesApp = ObjCreate("iTunes.Application")
    $Library_Playlist = $iTunesApp.LibraryPlaylist
    $Library_Tracks = $iTunesApp.LibraryPlaylist.Tracks
    $sel_Track = $iTunesApp.SelectedTracks
    $current_Track = $iTunesApp.CurrentTrack
    $Player_State = $iTunesApp.PlayerState
    $Playlist_Handle = $iTunesApp.LibrarySource.Playlists
EndFunc   ;==>_iTunes_Start

Func _iTunes_Vol_Up($vol_percent = 1)
    $iTunesApp.SoundVolume = $iTunesApp.SoundVolume + $vol_percent
EndFunc   ;==>_iTunes_Vol_Up

Func _iTunes_Vol_Down($vol_percent = 1)
    $iTunesApp.SoundVolume = $iTunesApp.SoundVolume - $vol_percent
EndFunc   ;==>_iTunes_Vol_Down

Func _iTunes_Prev()
    $iTunesApp.PreviousTrack
EndFunc   ;==>_iTunes_Prev

Func _iTunes_Next()
    $iTunesApp.NextTrack
EndFunc   ;==>_iTunes_Next

Func _iTunes_Play_Pause()
    $iTunesApp.PlayPause
EndFunc   ;==>_iTunes_Play_Pause

Func _IsPressed($sHexKey, $vDLL = 'user32.dll')
    ; $hexKey must be the value of one of the keys.
    ; _Is_Key_Pressed will return 0 if the key is not pressed, 1 if it is.
    Local $a_R = DllCall($vDLL, "int", "GetAsyncKeyState", "int", '0x' & $sHexKey)
    If Not @error And BitAND($a_R[0], 0x8000) = 0x8000 Then Return 1
    Return 0
EndFunc   ;==>_IsPressed

Just press the play/pause, next, previous oder vol up/down buttons to sww how it works.

With the stop-button you can de/activate the tool, when you press "End" and stop it will be closed.

senthor

Edited January 19, 2009 by senthor

[torels]

If i were you i'd change the value of $volPercent to something around 10. So you get to rise or low copletely the volume in 10 steps...as it is now it will take you 100 click sto take the volume up completely!

and 2 important things

1) you need no _isPressed function

2) just include the library... when you get to compile your script the functions get added automatically

anyway good example!

[TheSaint]

@torels - are there any commands for adding playlists to the Ipod itself (not just Itunes), and are you considering adding them ... including updating/combining/addingto/editing for playlists, etc?

[torels]

no... everything that goes on an iPod has to pass from iTunes before... unfortunately

but you could add anything you need to your library, update the iPod, and change back the library... even if I don't get the point in doing it

just add the files to the library

[TheSaint]

no... everything that goes on an iPod has to pass from iTunes before... unfortunately

but you could add anything you need to your library, update the iPod, and change back the library... even if I don't get the point in doing it

just add the files to the library

Thanks for responding!

The point is, that I have several thousand songs on my Ipod, and next to none in Itunes, as I don't store all my music on my PC (all on CD's or backed up to DVD), and I don't use bloated Itunes to play my music when I do ... either I use Winamp, foobar2000 or CDRun2 (my kids use Media Player).

So Itunes doesn't like to do business that way, it demands that you have the tracks in it's normal database first, before you can place them on the Ipod.

Once they are on the Ipod, it no longer cares, unless you do a sync ... which then matches both databases ... this is where thousands of users have lost their songs ... the match only works one way ... Itunes never imports stuff unless you tell it to, and only then if it's purchased items and it's been validated for them.

This whole scenario, is why many people the world over hate or dislike Itunes (& Apple), and so use or keep trying to find an Itunes replacement (amongst other reasons).

I've now settled pretty much on using foobar2000 to get my music onto the Ipod, but it is far from perfect at this stage in the Ipod Manager development (though I'm about to test a beta). Getting playlists and tracks onto the Ipod is almost a breeze (sorting of tracks issue aside), it is certainly the best method I've come across so far (Floola was a bit basic and slow in this area). Unfortunately, adding tracks to an existing playlist at this time, is not possible without going through some clunky steps, which I'll list below for those who are interested (hope you don't mind). Thankfully it does recognise when a song in a new playlist already exists on the Ipod, and so doesn't duplicate the file, but keeps the links intact & updated.

I apologize in advance for lack of exact detail in the following procedure, as it was all done from memory ... access to the original PC being unavailable at the time. Anyone who wants greater clarity, can PM me or request that here, and I'll start another topic maybe ... being unfair to usurp torels topic any further.

Steps To Update An Existing Playlist On Your Ipod Using foobar2000

1. Select Ipod Devices from the second dropdown menu.

2. Select the playlist you want to update - it should appear in the left column as IpodView (this relies on the columns addon and your settings), and the existing tracks should be displayed in the main pane of foobar.

3. Drag your new tracks (or a playlist of) to this main pane, and then drag them into position.

4. You then need to delete the playlist from the Ipod, using another menu option on first dropdown menu (note that only the playlist is deleted, not the tracks).

5. Rename IpodView to the original name of the playlist.

6. Select the usual menu option to Send Playlists to the Ipod, then select your renamed playlist. Note, that only the non-existing tracks are copied to the Ipod.

7. Reload the Ipod database.

Order of Steps 3 & 4 doesn't matter, and if your playlist from Step 3 still contains all the files already on the Ipod, then you can skip Steps 1, 2 3 & 5, and just drag that playlist to the left column, then do Steps 4, 6 & 7.

@torels - sorry about all that detail, but maybe it gives you some insight into a need for some more Itunes functions. In fact, I've downloaded the Itunes SDK, and spent many hours yesterday researching and discovering programs and scripts in VBScript & Javascript, that do command-line like operations with Itunes. I may come up with something myself eventually, but you might like to beat me to it ... or even foobar2000 might. Im also looking into the foobar2000 command-line options, but I don't think they work with menu items created by the Ipod Manager addon.

[reyas]

hey guys.

can anyone of you tell me how to play a song which i searched with the itunes udf

sry my english is not very good ^^.

[torels]

this should work

_itunes_PlaySearched($songtitle)
    local $return
    $sResults = $Library_Playlist.search($songtitle,0)
    for $track in $sResults
        _ArrayAdd($return,$track)
    Next
    Return $return
EndFunc

btw... I'm going to update the udf soon... It's quite limited as it is now

@TheSaint

I took a look at the COM object chm... I don't think it's possible without adding things to itunes first

but I'll take a better look

and possibly try and find a way of doing it

thanks for the support everyone!!!

[reyas]

hmm doesnt work for me. dunno know why :/

the return of the function is empty and the song isnt played.

[torels]

ok... I don't know how it works then... it was just a suggestion XD

anyway... as soon as I have some time I will update the UDF

you try playing a bit with it for the moment

[colafrysen]

Hi Torels, first, thanks for this great UDF >_<

But i cant seem to find the UnLoad function in the UDF. it's mentioned in the user calltip entries.

Where is it??

PS the U is capitalized

_iTUnes_Visuals_Enable() - Wrong

_iTunes_Visuals_Disable() - Right

[DJKMan]

When I try to run it this shows up whenever I do any command.

=>Variable must be of type "Object".:
$iTunesApp.VisualsEnabled = 1
$iTunesApp^ ERROR

[colafrysen]

Make sure that you call _iTunes_Start() to create the object.

[DJKMan]

Ah. I got it working now. Thank you.

Quite an excellent UDF. Great job! =]

[psynegy]

Found a few missing values which are quite handy for _iTunes_Current_GetInfo()

_ArrayAdd($tInfo, $iTunesApp.CurrentTrack.trackid)
    _ArrayAdd($tInfo, $iTunesApp.CurrentTrack.location)

Thanks for a great UDF!