Dear Mailing List,
I am working on a python program that needs to trash some files.
Ideally, I would like it to move them to the Trash, but I'm not quite
sure what the best way to do this is.
For context, I am using appscript to talk to iTunes and load its list
of songs. This works great.
Thanks; I'll give this a try. Converting an Alias to a path isn't too
difficult, there's an example in one of the sample appscripts I
believe.
Niko
On May 7, 2005, at 1:00 AM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
> On May 6, 2005, at 6:31 PM, Niko Matsakis wrote:
>
>> I am worki
I have a program which identifies duplicates in iTunes and attempts
to delete them automatically. It seems to work like a charm, except
for one problem: once I have identified the set of songs to delete, I
have to go through them one-by-one and delete them. So, if I have
accumulated the d
>
>> To that end, it seems like what I want to do is something like:
>>
>> allsongs.filter (its.database_ID in songdbids]).delete ()
>>
>> except I don't think that the 'in' operator works,
>
> See ch.8 of the appscript manual for a list of supported comparison
> forms. Not all Pyth
>> and it looks like I'm missing a get() in there in any case.
>
> Depends what you're trying to get. iTunes scripting interface is
> pretty extensive, but a lot of the implementation is rather crude
> and many commands won't work on more than one object at a time. So
> the above might work
Shoot, fired that last e-mail off a bit early. Please ignore in
favor of this more complete version.
> Depends what you're trying to get. iTunes scripting interface is
> pretty extensive, but a lot of the implementation is rather crude
> and many commands won't work on more than one object
>> If this *is* just a limitation in iTunes, I have to admit I'm a
>> bit of a loss as to how to proceed.
>
> Did you try the alternative script I suggested? How did that fare?
Well, your alternative doesn't quite do what I want. The duplicates
don't actually have the same database_ID: instea
> Well, I'll benchmark the two approaches against my full library and
> report back on the results :). The question is whether having more
> AppleEvents will be slower than selecting way too much data.
>
Neither is stupendously fast; the bottleneck is definitely issuing
the individual delete co
> Still sounds very slow. What OS & iTunes versions; how big's the
> playlist and what % is duplicates? I mocked up a 550-item playlist
> containing 500 duplicates and my script took 50 secs to get through
> that (iTunes 6.0.1; OS 10.4.3); 10 secs if I close the playlist
> window first so i
