> my Tune Finder is often asked for tunes that have ABC that's not
> compatible with the tools that my site uses. Barfly extensions
> are a good example of this. I can't very well adopt Barfly as
> one of my site's tools, because it is a GUI tool, and those don't
> work all that well when called by CGI scripts.
BarFly is AppleScriptable, isn't it? So, if you've got a Mac on
your network somewhere, you should be able to tell it to:
- open the file
- go into split-screen mode
- do Print Preview
- save as PICT
and then your conversion tools can take it from there. (The one
problem this won't fix is if the author expected landscape format
or some other offbeat viewer setting, and didn't say so in a %%Bfly
line). Maybe BarFly might analogously be able to save its playback
as a QuickTime movie someday?
This kind of thing might be a useful route for other platforms;
I presume there's some way to drive (at least recent) Windows
applications from Visual Basic.
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