Thanks heaps for the info Ester.
I'll investigate the smart playlist option that you described and also i'll
take a look at the automater actions incase there's something that may work
as well.
Thanks again for letting me know about smart playlists.
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From: "Esther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
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Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 1:09 PM
Subject: Re: iTunes pluggin query
Hi Scott,
It's simple to get a timed playlist of music if you're playing content
that's in your own iTunes library, but if you're working with an external
radio stream you'd probably have to set this up via an AppleScript,
Automator action, or shell script that that uses a timer or runs a cron
job. If you're using a third party program to stream content it might
come with some pre-made AppleScripts.
However, here's the simple way to do this with your own music in iTunes:
create a smart playlist with a checkbox that is set to "Limit to 45
minutes".
For example, let's say that you have a long playlist of good workout
music named "Workout Music", and you want to make a smart playlist in
iTunes that will play 45 minutes worth of this. Create the selection
rule: "<Playlist> <is> <Workout Music>" then limit the playlist by time,
according to your preferred selection method. Limits can be set in time
(minutes or hours), size (MB or GB), or number of items.
1. Command-Option-N (keyboard shortcut for new smart playlist)
2. VO-right arrow to rules section and interact (VO-Shift-Down Arrow)
3. VO-space on first popup button; press "P" then down arrow to
"Playlist" and return to change the popup button from its default setting
of "Artist" to "Playlist"
4. VO-right arrow to the next popup button which is set to "contains",
press it (VO-space), then press "i" and return to change this to "is".
5. VO-right arrow to the last popup button which is set to "Music", press
it (VO-space), the type in the first few letters of your playlist name
(e.g. "W-O") until the name of your selected playlist appears and press
return.
6. Stop interacting (VO-Shift-Up arrow) and VO-right arrow out of the
rules section to the limit conditions
7. VO-space where you hear "Limit to, unchecked checkbox) to check this
box
8. VO-right arrow and type in "45"
9. VO-right to the popup button, press it (VO-space), and press "M-I" and
return to select "minutes"
10. VO-right arrow past "selected by" to the popup button set to
"random". You can change this (VO-space and arrow up or down) to
criteria like Artist, Album, Genre, highest or lowest rating, most or
least recently played, most or least recently added to library, or most
or least frequently played.
11. Once you're done, return to commit your choices (or navigate to the
"Cancel" or "OK" buttons and press your selections with VO-space), then
type in a name for your smart playlist in response to the prompt from the
dialogue box.
You can add additional rules to your playlist -- like a specific Artist
or Genre -- by pressing the button to add another rule at the end of your
first rule, and setting up other rules like "<Rating> <is greater than>
<3 stars>" or "<Genre> <is> <Rock>".
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Esther
P.S. When you set up more than one rule, you have the option of apply
either ANY of the rules or ALL of the rules. When you stop interacting
with the rules section VO left arrow to the start of the smart playlist,
which will say "Match all <popup button> of the following rules" and
change the popup button to "any" if you want a smart playlist that
matches any of your rules.
On Nov 7, 2008, at 12:34 PM, Scott Rutkowski wrote:
Hi all.
Does anyone know of a way in iTunes that would allow one to say play a
radio stream for 30 minutes then iTunes could turn off the stream?
If not available directly in iTunes is there a third party add on or
pluggin that would allow this?
I need this feature so i know after being on the treadmill for 45
minutes the current music in iTunes would stop playing.
If anyone knows anything about the above, could you let us all know?
Thanks all.
