ITunes: get selected mobile apps with AppleScript

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I fear I already know the answer to this one, but is there any way to access the locally-stored Mobile Applications in an iTunes library using AppleScript?

The selection property appears to not function with apps:

tell application "iTunes" to get selection

With, say, a podcast, I get a result like:

{file track id 656 of user playlist id 541 of source id 74 of application "iTunes"}

But with an app selected, I just get:

{}

Alternatively, is there a 'rawer' way to access the mobile applications? Merely enumerating them in the file system won't suffice, because I'm trying to change their file location in the iTunes library.

Best Answer

If you want raw. You could try:

activate application "iTunes"

tell application "System Events"
    tell process "iTunes"
        keystroke "i" using command down -- open the info window
        set theName to title of window 1 -- get the name
        keystroke "." using command down  --close the info window
    end tell
end tell
log theName

This will get the name of the selected app

I have 170 apps so if I selected the first one and then run

set the logList to {}
activate application "iTunes"
repeat 170 times
    tell application "System Events"
        tell process "iTunes"
            keystroke "i" using command down -- open the info window
            set theName to title of window 1 -- get the name
            keystroke "." using command down --close the  info window
        end tell
        copy theName to end of logList

        --DO OTHER SOME STUFF

        key code 124
    end tell

end repeat

count of logList

I can walk through them via the script and get each name. I did not seem to need a delay in it .

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