iTunes UDF

[James]

Hey Guys ... is there any chance to get the current position in a song thats currently playing?

so if I use _iTunes_Current_GetInfo() I can only get the length of the titel, but what I want to have is the exact point the player is at atm

I tried to modify something in the udf, but I can just guess what I have to call the object with since I don't know how to look up what I can ask the object .. maybe I'm just a little stupid but nevermind ..

$iTunesApp.CurrentTrack. <- and then? currentPosition, currPos .. it wont work

please help me

My has this built in _iTunes_PlayerPos(), you call $iTunesApp.PlayerPosition

[Leo1906]

thanks James!

I added this to the udf in this thread and it worked. just didn't knew where to get the command I can ask the object.

Where do you get this, how can you figure out that it is called .PlayerPosition ?

but what ever .. it's working Thanks for your reply

€: and there's something else I would like to ask .. is there any chance to unload the itunes object without quitting itunes?

Edited April 9, 2013 by Leo1906

[James]

Where do you get this, how can you figure out that it is called .PlayerPosition ?

but what ever .. it's working Thanks for your reply

€: and there's something else I would like to ask .. is there any chance to unload the itunes object without quitting itunes?

The documentation I made great use of it when I was writing iTunesTweet. I've uploaded it to Dropbox.

Good question. This was the bane of many problems for me. If you take a look at the bottom of my UDF you'll see these functions:

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; Sets the $iCOMEvnt to 1 if COM is disabled
Func _iTunesCOM_onCOMCallsDisabledEvent($reason)
    $iCOMEvnt = 1
    ConsoleWrite("!>COM Disabled... " & _iTunesRes_Disabled($reason) & @CRLF)
    Return 0
EndFunc   ;==>_iTunesCOM_onCOMCallsDisabledEvent

; Sets the $iCOMEvnt to 0 if COM is enabled
Func _iTunesCOM_onCOMCallsEnabledEvent()
    $iCOMEvnt = 0
    ConsoleWrite("+>COM Enabled..." & @CRLF)
    Return 1
EndFunc   ;==>_iTunesCOM_onCOMCallsEnabledEvent

; Quits the iTunes COM interface
Func _iTunesCOM_OnQuittingEvent()
    _iTunes_Quit()
    ProcessWait("itunes.exe") ; Wait for the process to come back
    _iTunes_Start()
EndFunc   ;==>_iTunesCOM_OnQuittingEvent

; If the database changes (renamed/deleted/moved) whilst playing just ignore it
Func _iTunesCOM_OnDatabaseChangedEvent()
    Return 1
EndFunc   ;==>_iTunesCOM_OnDatabaseChangedEvent

Func _iTunesCOM_OnPlayerPlayingTrackChanged()
    _iTunes_Quit() ; Close the iTunes COM handle
    _iTunes_Start() ; Then re-open it to get all of the data again
    Return 0
EndFunc   ;==>_iTunesCOM_OnPlayerPlayingTrackChanged

; What happens when iTunes wants to close
Func _iTunesCOM_OnAboutToPromptUserToQuitEvent()
    ConsoleWrite("->iTunes says bye bye!" & @CRLF)
    _iTunes_Quit()
EndFunc   ;==>_iTunesCOM_OnAboutToPromptUserToQuitEvent

; Returns the value why the COM is disabled
Func _iTunesRes_Disabled($iReason)
    Switch $iReason
        Case 0
            Return "COM interface is being disabled: for some other reason."
        Case 1
            Return "COM interface is being disabled: a modal dialog is being displayed."
        Case 2
            Return "COM interface is being disabled: iTunes is quitting."
        Case Else
            Return "COM interface is being disabled: only iTunes knows why."
    EndSwitch
EndFunc   ;==>_iTunesRes_Disabled

When iTunes quit and my program was running, it'd crash. This is how I got about that

[Leo1906]

haha yeah I thought that you should get them from the documentation, but as I was looking fot it yesterday I wasn't able to find it

but thanks for the upload

Edited April 9, 2013 by Leo1906

[James]

I was looking fot it yesterday I wasn't able to find it

You have to login to their developer portal, hunt for iTunes, then Windows and help. It's a lot of work, but now it should be much easier. These docs might not apply to iTunes 11 though.

[Vreo]

Hey torels, it's been a while since you wrote Your script is awesome. I am just starting with AutoIt. I am looking for a way to control Airplay speakers, to activate and deactivate them by name. Do you know a way I can do that? Thank you and congrats.

[htclub]

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