Re: iTunes next song AppleScript via UI Scripting.

[Jonathan Cohn]

Hello, Please find attached two script files. If the attachment process does not work, I can  put them up in drop box. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list.   If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself.   Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com   The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

iTUne Next Song.scpt
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iTunes stop at end of current song.scpt
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Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn On Apr 28, 2017, at 9:30 PM, Des Delgadillo <desdelgadi...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi, I’m not too familiar with Apple Script, but what you have in the line you sent looks good. Having it pause at end of song would be a great added function. Thanks again for your help. I hope this script gets added to the repository. Des Delgadillo Reporter desdelgadi...@gmail.com (562) 652-3415 On Apr 28, 2017, at 7:36 AM, Jonathan Cohn <jon.c.c...@gmail.com> wrote: Hello,  OK, I have made the script work a little better and am almost ready to send a new copy out.  Please update the below line with what you would want spoken:  set TextToSspeak to SongName & " by " & ArtistName & " on album " & AlbumName Currently I have only tested this with Billy Joel and Bob Dylan, if you are working with more classical types of music please also give me a couple examples that I can play from Apple Music so I can make sure everything gets filled out correctly,.  If I remember correctly, you are using this for presentation purposes, so you might want some other functions available, perhaps pause at end of current song? Or maybe even the simple tell Application "iTunes" to play If anybody wants to explore the AppleScript handlers I would be glad to discuss.  Best Wishes, Jonathan    On 26 April 2017 at 14:42, Des Delgadillo <desdelgadi...@gmail.com> wrote: I would prefer just having VO read out the song and artist. No dialogue needed. Des Delgadillo Reporter desdelgadi...@gmail.com (562) 652-3415 On Apr 25, 2017, at 1:27 PM, Jonathan Cohn <jon.c.c...@gmail.com> wrote: I'm not quite sure what you're asking here. Do you want the dialogue or did you want the output would you want to be able to have a choose? On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 3:02 PM Des Delgadillo <desdelgadi...@gmail.com> wrote: Thanks again for this. I’ve got it set up to work with a VO hot key, but how can I get it to display in a dialog box or to just read out the next song? Des Delgadillo Reporter desdelgadi...@gmail.com (562) 652-3415 On Apr 24, 2017, at 6:57 PM, Jonathan Cohn <jon.c.c...@gmail.com> wrote: If you put the script into script editor and click play you should get a dialog asking you to launch System Preferences.  You need to go into the  Security and Privacy panel then click on Privacy.  In the Privacy tab is a table where one of the items is accessibility. You should see in the other table that Script Editor has asked for accessibility access, and you need to check the box next to System Preferences. I can give you more secure way where only this specific script has accessibility access not all scripts, but this is the easiest way.  Also, since I used the  tell application "VoiceOver" to output the SongName, you need to also make sure the t allow Apple Script to control VoiceOver is checked. ,   Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn On Apr 24, 2017, at 5:07 PM, Des Delgadillo <desdelgadi...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Jonathan, Sorry for the delay in responding. Thank you for the script. Getting the song information in a dialogue box would be fine, it would even be ok if VO just read out the song title without displaying a dialogue. I have limited scripting knowledge but I will try to run this script today. Can I just copy and paste the text of your script into the script editor? Thanks again for doing this. Des Delgadillo Reporter desdelgadi...@gmail.com (562) 652-3415 On Apr 22, 2017, at 6:15 PM, Jonathan Cohn <jon.c.c...@gmail.com> wrote: I have a preliminary version of this script working using the Accessibility API. What this means is that an administrator needs to authorize either the script editor application or an application created from the script in order for this script to run. Right now I have it use VoiceOver to speak the name of the next song. There is also a string that returns the Artist and Album. To the person that was requesting this, what was the final requirement? Do you want the information in a dialog box? Should it run just once, or be checking on regular intervals to see if the up next has changed? Perhaps you want me to attempt to insert the information into a Numbers sheet. Text of script so far is below: note, I believe at least one of the handlers is not being used. note 2 I put the UI Elements being accessed as properties at the top of the script.  use application "System Events" use scripting additions property miniPlayerWindow : a reference to window "miniplayer" of application process "iTunes" property ToggleButton : a reference to pop up button 2 of miniPlayerWindow property UpNextRadioButton : a reference to radio button "Up Next" of radio group 1 of miniPlayerWindow property ScrollRegion : a reference to scroll area 1 of miniPlayerWindow property NextSongItem : a reference to static text 1 of UI element 1 of row 1 of table 1 of ScrollRegion property NextAlbumItem : a reference to static text 2 of UI element 1 of row 1 of table 1 of ScrollRegion on run -- find the mini player or create it ActivateMiniPlayer() if description of ToggleButton is not equal to "hide up next" then error "Who are we kidding, this should be the button. Perhaps iTunes changed the arrangement" end if if value of UpNextRadioButton = 0 then -- Up next needs to be selected  click UpNextRadioButton end if -- make sure information is visible  set ScrollSize to size of ScrollRegion if second item of ScrollSize is equal to 0 then -- hight = 0  click ToggleButton end if set Song to value of NextSongItem set ALbum to value of NextAlbumItem VoiceOverSpeech(Song) return Song & ALbum end run on VoiceOverSpeech(myText) tell application "VoiceOver" to output myText end VoiceOverSpeech on ActivateMiniPlayer() set iTunesRunning to my ActivateIfRunning:"iTunes" if not iTunesRunning then error "You must be running iTunes for this script to work." end if tell application "iTunes" if (not (exists miniplayer window 1)) then make new miniplayer window end if end tell return {} return window "MiniPlayer" of application process "iTunes" end ActivateMiniPlayer on appWithName(appName as {text, application}) set c to class of appName if c is equal to application then return appName else if c is equal to text then return application appName end if end appWithName on ActivateIfRunning:appName try set frontmost of application process appName to true set Success to true on error set Success to false end try return Success end ActivateIfRunning: Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list.   If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself.   Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. 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