Refresh Smart Playlists in iTunes using AppleScript

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Add logic to smart playlists in iTunes
4.5

Add logic to smart playlists in iTunes
4.5 04/30/2004 12:17 PM
I've been thinking hard about how to bypass what I think is a limitation in iTunes' smart playlist capabilities, that is to create a list with a combination of logical operands. You can create lists with only AND or only OR ...

Mac Tip: Smarter iTunes Smart Playlists

Mac Tip: Smarter iTunes Smart Playlists 07/16/2004 06:47 PM
G4 Tech TV Jul 16 2004 11:17PM GMT

iTunes Smart Playlists can cause slow
app loading

iTunes Smart Playlists can cause slow
app loading 07/07/2004 09:23 AM
I recently reinstalled Panther on my shiny new 300GB hard drive. iTunes used to load all my songs (about 1,700 total) with one bounce. Soon after, it would take about seven to eight bounces to launch, with nothing else going ...

Manage iTunes audio streams with smart
playlists

Manage iTunes audio streams with smart
playlists 12/19/2004 02:59 PM
This is a very basic tip on how to match audio streams such as the ones broadcasted with nicecast or shoutcast etc. Basically, all you have to do is create a smart playlist with kind contains "Stream," and you will have a s...

Smart playlists can cause slow iTunes
launch times

Smart playlists can cause slow iTunes
launch times 07/06/2004 09:58 AM
I recently re-installed Panther on my shiny new 300GB hard drive. iTunes used to load all my songs ( about 1700 or so) with one bounce. Soon after, it would take about seven to eight bounces to launch, with nothing else going...

Smart playlists that truly follow your
mood

Smart playlists that truly follow your
mood 05/06/2004 10:14 AM
With thousands of tunes in your iTunes library or in your iPod, it's high time to consider using it as the radio you've always looked for: the one that delivers only tunes you like, and that fit your mood in a unheard of way....

Smart Auto Refresh

Smart Auto Refresh 04/05/2005 09:20 PM
In this tutorial Hermawan will teach you how to create an auto refreshing page. The trick he will show you is how to have the page only refresh when there is new data to display.

Codewalkers.com: Smart Auto Refresh

Codewalkers.com: Smart Auto Refresh 04/06/2005 08:50 AM
In a new posting from Codewalkers.com today, Hermawan Haryanto has a tutorial that shows you how to create an auto-refreshing page that only does so when something has changed.

Publish iTunes 4.5 library and playlists
to the web

Publish iTunes 4.5 library and playlists
to the web 05/03/2004 10:44 AM
I just had one of those Eureka moments. Instead of futzing around with iTunes and Excel to make music lists, I just need to use the new iTunes 4.5. I don't know how Apple does it, but it just keeps getting better. Of course t...

iTunes Celebrity Playlists: Anything But
Ordinary, Please

iTunes Celebrity Playlists: Anything But
Ordinary, Please 05/27/2004 12:16 PM
Writer Dan Kois profiles the pitfalls and rare successes of iTunes Music Store's celebrity playlists. Turns out, most famous people like the same crappy music as the rest of us.I can't think of a better summation of Avril Lavigne than...

Import playlists and songs into iTunes

Import playlists and songs into iTunes 04/29/2004 10:44 AM
I've not seen this hint anywhere else, but maybe I've just missed it. If you have an iTunes folder at home, and another at work, and you want to merge the two you can do the following: Copy the work iTunes folder onto your ...

Organize in-progress iTunes playlists
via renaming

Organize in-progress iTunes playlists
via renaming 05/11/2004 10:51 AM
I've got a ton of playlists in iTunes and until Apple lets us have folders in the iTunes sidebar, I'll use this method for creating a new playlist. Right after creating the empty playlist, I'll re-name it " " (just...

Rename iTunes playlists to control order

Rename iTunes playlists to control order 12/15/2003 11:44 AM
iTunes does a nice job of organizing your playlists by type (i.e. Smart Playlists and custom playlists). However, when you transfer those playlists to your iPod, the playlists get re-ordered in alphabetical order. In order t...

Move iTunes playlists and songs via file
export

Move iTunes playlists and songs via file
export 07/06/2004 09:58 AM
Say you have a Smart Playlist of songs you want to copy to iTunes on another machine. Usually, you can mount the other machine's drive on your Desktop, and drag all the songs from the playlist to the folder you want, then go...

The perils of iTunes Music Store
celebrity playlists

The perils of iTunes Music Store
celebrity playlists 05/27/2004 02:08 PM
Slate's Dan Kois takes a humorous look at the celebrity playlists featured on Apple's iTunes Music Store...

I have a dream that my children will one
day be judged not by the color of their
skin but by the content of their iTunes
playlists

I have a dream that my children will one
day be judged not by the color of their
skin but by the content of their iTunes
playlists 11/13/2003 05:26 AM
“ITunes Undermines Social Security” .. playlistism .. Wired

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Beyonc©, Your Mix Tape Sucks - The
perils of iTunes celebrity playlists. By
Dan Kois

Beyonc©, Your Mix Tape Sucks - The
perils of iTunes celebrity playlists. By
Dan Kois 05/29/2004 04:53 PM
Beyonce, Your Mix Sucks .. Slate

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iTunes 4.5 Brings Music Store Refresh,
Free Songs

iTunes 4.5 Brings Music Store Refresh,
Free Songs 04/29/2004 04:59 AM

An AppleScript to check SMART status on
startup/login

An AppleScript to check SMART status on
startup/login 08/06/2004 09:57 AM
This AppleScript should be copied and pasted into Script Editor, then saved as an application. It checks your hard drives' SMART status after restart or login. To have it do so, open System Preferences -> Accounts -> Startup ...

Help With iTunes AppleScript

Help With iTunes AppleScript 01/22/2004 12:57 PM

AppleScript: iTunes Playlist to DVD

AppleScript: iTunes Playlist to DVD 01/09/2004 09:58 PM
The Playlist to DVD application creates a QuickTime movie containing the audio tracks and album art from a chosen iTunes playlist. The newly created movie, and an album art slideshow, are automatically added to the currently open iDVD project. And since the added 640x480 movie is created with chapter markers, it's easy to sequentially navigate its tracks using standard DVD controls.

Use Fetch Art and an AppleScript for
iTunes artwork

Use Fetch Art and an AppleScript for
iTunes artwork 02/05/2005 10:14 PM
Fetch Art (VersionTracker info) is working again with iTunes 4.7.1 (with OSX 10.3.7). I used to use it a lot to update my album artwork, but it stopped working when iTunes 4.5 came out -- it started scanning the entire curren...

iTunes 4.5, Fast User Switching and
AppleScript

iTunes 4.5, Fast User Switching and
AppleScript 05/21/2004 10:05 AM
I use iTunes on my desktop computer but spend most of my time working on my PowerBook. I have a couple of scripts on my PowerBook to pause and play iTunes on the desktop machine. Now that iTunes 4.5 will still play while swit...

Use an AppleScript to remember iTunes
play positions

Use an AppleScript to remember iTunes
play positions 12/02/2003 12:38 AM
Does digital out-do analog every time? Does DVD always beat Video Tape? Do MP3s wipe out Audio Cassettes? Well, quality wise, yes. But the old techs were 'stateful;' they didn't forget! DVDs, MP3s, CDs don't keep where they...

Apple offers iTunes Playlist to DVD
AppleScript

Apple offers iTunes Playlist to DVD
AppleScript 01/08/2004 07:17 PM
Apple has posted a "Playlist to DVD" AppleScript to its Web site for iDVD 4...

An AppleScript to open iTunes videos in
QuickTime

An AppleScript to open iTunes videos in
QuickTime 04/08/2005 11:58 AM
After having recently upgraded my hard drive, I was finally able to fit all my music into one location. Since I have the room (for the moment), I thought about investigating using iTunes to also hold music-related video mater...

iTunes Top 20 smart playlist strategies

iTunes Top 20 smart playlist strategies 03/13/2003 10:23 AM
iTunes has one play-tracking limitation that, if fixed, would yield some very cool playlists: the ability to see how many times a song has been played recently. But there's no timestamp saved for each play; it just incremen...

Create an iTunes 'work safe' smart
playlist

Create an iTunes 'work safe' smart
playlist 06/28/2004 11:23 AM
This came while doing some work in a place where we couldn't use headphones, but could listen to music, every now and then we'd run across a song that wasn't... appropriate. First I added a rule to my Smart Playlist I was usi...

Playlists of Web-available music

Playlists of Web-available music 06/10/2004 01:22 PM
Webjay is a project to host and share listener-created playlists of songs that are freely downloadable from the Web. Link

Smart Box Design Rolls Out Farkle for
Palm OS Handhelds, a Lively Mobile
Rendition of the Classic Dice Game,
Featuring “Smart” Opponents

Smart Box Design Rolls Out Farkle for
Palm OS Handhelds, a Lively Mobile
Rendition of the Classic Dice Game,
Featuring “Smart” Opponents 09/13/2004 12:34 PM
Smart Box Design announces the release of Farkle, a Palm OS version of the classic dice rolling game. Farkle offers players an opportunity to challenge friends or compete against a variety of “intelligent” computer opponents with a wide range of personalities—from cautious to daring—that will determine the level of risk each opponent is willing to take when deciding just how far to push their luck. [PRWEB Sep 13, 2004]

Playlist: Brilliant Playlists

Playlist: Brilliant Playlists 02/05/2005 09:19 PM
As our music libraries swell to gargantuan proportions it can become increasingly difficult to manage the music we listen to (or would like to listen to if we could just find half the tunes we possess). Thankfully iTunes offers a leg up with Smart Playlists -- a tool for automatically creating playlists that contain exactly the kind of music you want in iTunes and on your iPod.

Playlists as media integration

Playlists as media integration 06/09/2004 02:11 PM
RSS and weblogs tag team mano a mano vs. syndication and broadcatching.

RSS and weblogs tag team mano a mano vs. syndication and broadcatching

the weblog of Lucas Gonze: RSS and weblogs tag team mano a mano vs. syndication and broadcatching. "The reason for the awkwardness is that RSS is about content from the creator of the RSS feed, while playlists are about deep linking to resources not owned by the linker. (Thanks to Alf Eaton for this insight)."

The funny thing is I was thinking about emailing Lucas about his thoughts on RSS 2.0 and the proper integration of audio posts and playlists integration into it when I saw this post. 

I don't know if I totally agree that RSS is always about content from the creator and never and can't be about deep linking to resources not owned by the linker.  I think that is what Lucas is trying to say above.  When CNET uses RSS maybe but not when webloggers and blog software outputs it.

Lucas points to some good links about the integration of RSS 1.0 and playlists.  It looks likes he's spent some time thinking about this.  I just don't know if I missed a whole online conversation around the subject and how he came to his conclusions.

When I try to think about this area's awkwardness, I keep thinking something is missing.  Maybe we need to study the best practices of mixing the two.  Should there be more then one "best" way in RSS of refering to playlist as a whole and others for deriving playlists out of RSS?

One thing I noticed it that when the big pubs starting using RSS they made RSS work for them. 

[Audio/Mobile Blogging News]

The nature and location of the payload is crucial to the success of all this.

Enclosures don't have meta-data - so they're worthless.  What ever happened to OpenMedia?

Oh yah, I dropped the ball on that - too.

P2P to influence radio playlists

P2P to influence radio playlists 03/14/2003 01:08 PM

Seb's getting into music playlists now

Seb's getting into music playlists now 04/23/2004 01:26 AM
Seb's musiclog goes live. I've begun rolling music selections in my sidebar using Alan Levine's handy RSS via Javascript tool. Pretty easy. You can see the musiclog on my blog's main page, just below the search boxes. (The RSS feed is here.) [Seb's Open Research]

Are Playlists Factual Information?

Are Playlists Factual Information? 09/17/2004 11:55 AM
When Microsoft launched their new music service, one of the "features" was that they tried to mimic a number of radio stations by offering streaming versions of their playlists, minus all the DJ chatter, commercials and songs that weren't licensed for online usage. This raised a bit of a stink and then quieted down. Now, Wired News is taking a look at the legal issues here and wondering if radio stations have a case against Microsoft? First, they admit that it's a little amusing that Microsoft, who is a strong believer in intellectual property laws, suddenly finds themselves on the other side of this issue. However, it does seem pretty clear that, just like real- time sports data, playlists are protected as being factual information. What the article doesn't say is whether or not the radio stations could claim intellectual property protection over the way they organize those songs -- something that has received some protection in the past, and which may get more protection soon. The other, perhaps stronger case for radio stations is trademark violations. Microsoft is claiming their streaming versions are "like 100.3 FM KSFI FM 100 Continuous Soft Hits," or whatever station they're imitating. The radio stations might make a case that this could confuse users into believing the stream is somehow from that radio station or sponsored by them. Microsoft, of course, will counter that the "like" clearly distinguishes their streams as separate. Either way, there is the question of whether or not this fight is worth it for the radio industry. They don't see internet radio as that big of a threat (yet), and a lawsuit could give Microsoft extra publicity for the service (which might be just what they intended).

Economy of Scales: Smart AV Smart
Console

Economy of Scales: Smart AV Smart
Console 12/24/2004 12:16 PM

Once a week, createdigitalmusic's Peter Kirn highlights drool-worthy music and audio creation equipment, from essential to oddball. This week's computer audio control surface, invented by a former magician and priced like a yacht, hits the oddball end.

Footlights organizes video with
playlists

Footlights organizes video with
playlists 09/23/2004 06:06 PM
Radical Breeze on Thursday released Footlights 1.0. The video playing application arranges movie files into playlists, lets you view them in full screen or compact views, and can loop, shuffle, change speed and more. Movies can also be exported to QuickTime-supported formats and codecs as well. Footlights requires Mac OS X v10.3 or higher and costs US$15; it's free to registered users of DiscBlaze 4.0 and higher.

Share playlists of videos to Xbox

Share playlists of videos to Xbox 03/25/2005 11:25 AM
This tip follows a previous tip on how to share your files from your Mac via Samba to Xbox Media Center. As some of you may or may not know, you can create a .m3u playlist (of videos or music) using VideoLan Client (VLC) by l...

Make M3U playlists play in Safari

Make M3U playlists play in Safari 05/11/2004 10:51 AM
I bet you hate it when you go to a website that offers free music downloads and/or previews (like Broadjam) with Safari, and instead of playing the M3U link, Safari just downloads it to disk. I bet you think "those poor Wind...
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Building Playlists Of Free MP3s

Building Playlists Of Free MP3s 04/09/2004 04:04 PM
Despite what the recording industry would have you believe, there actually are a lot of bands who release tracks as MP3s for free online, as a way of promoting their music. A while back Lucas Gonze came up with the idea of helping people create web-based playlists for such free MP3s and ended up creating Webjay. I had played around with it a couple months ago when he launched it, but haven't had much time since. It looks like many others, though, have started populating it with some interesting playlists. The idea is not to include unauthorized MP3s (and, in fact, those lists get taken down), but as a way to help promote bands who realize the benefit of offering free MP3s online.

Web Sites for Music Playlists and Baby
Blogs

Web Sites for Music Playlists and Baby
Blogs 04/22/2004 01:13 AM
Webjay.org lets people create music playlists; Microsoft has a site that lets lurkers follow the hottest newsgroups; Trixie Update, a `baby blog' with detailed charts.

iVCD 2 adds menus, playlists to Video
CDs, more

iVCD 2 adds menus, playlists to Video
CDs, more 04/27/2004 05:36 PM
Mireth Technology unveiled iVCD 2.0 on Tuesday, a new version of their application for authoring Video CDs and Super Video CDs. The update adds the ability to include menus and playlists in Video CDs, a preview mode for encoded MPEG and more.

MSN Music hijacking radio station
playlists?

MSN Music hijacking radio station
playlists? 09/07/2004 07:53 PM
So far, feedback for Microsoft's newly launched MSN Music has been pretty positive. Until now. SFGate.com is reporting that more than 900 radio stations have complained after Microsoft nabbed effective copies of their playlists.

Although some members might remember the old adage that to be copied means one is admired, Radio station owners don't seem to be seeing it this way. When they broadcast on-air, they have adverts; Microsoft are broadcasting online without the adverts, and without the stations DJs. Rob Bennett, senior director for MSN Entertainment commented "It results in a more pleasant experience because you don't have the ads or the DJs." How kind.

Not surprisingly, radio stations across the nation see this as Microsoft piggy-backing their hard work, and an unfair way to compete in the market. MSN Radio is part of MSN Music, and was largely over looked when MSN Music launched. One of it's features is the 'localised radio', offering content from 1,200 radio stations.

The current situation is arguably quite confusing. Microsoft label sites with "like XY.Z FM" and then list what Microsoft describe as a factual piece of information - the name - rather than a trademark. One can't but wonder, if the tables were turned, would there be trademark cease and desist letters being sealed?

View: SFGate Article
View: MSN Music | MSN Radio

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Refresh Smart Playlists in iTunes using AppleScript

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