ext_212097 ([identity profile] iayork.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] mmcirvin 2004-08-26 06:31 pm (UTC)

Current music:
N.Rimsky-Korsakov - Ii. The Tsarina And Her Son Afloat In The Cask

The iTunes world is just biased against classical users, isn't it? I don't know what you're using to blog with, but whatever it is, just like almost every other program that links to music, the programmer never thought about classical music; you have the track and the composer (which is progress, unless you have the composer in the artist slot), but doesn't include the actual work.

I use XJournal, which exhibits precisely the same behaviour, and you'll never guess what I did, I wrote a script to get the proper behaviour.

But, damn it, it's trivial. If I can do it, why can't the original programmer?

It's people like them wot causes unrest.

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--Copies Composer, Album, and Artist of current iTunes track to clipboard
tell application "iTunes"
set This_Artist to artist of current track
set this_album to album of current track
set This_Composer to composer of current track
end tell
activate
set Track_Info to This_Composer & " - " & this_album & " - " & This_Artist
set the clipboard to Track_Info

tell application "System Events"
tell process "XJournal"
set (value of text field 2 of window "Untitled") to the clipboard
end tell
end tell


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