iTunes has started truncating the MP3s that I add. Who knows why. They tend to get cut off at 4:10. There's a discussion, and a fix, here
The amazing problem-solver, abuckiew, gives an AppleScript to loop through the songs and play each one of them briefly.
If anyone uses my workaround I use the following Apple script after
adding files to my library to let each song play for appx 1 second
(change 5 to however many songs you have added):
delay 1
activate application "iTunes"
tell application "System Events"
repeat 5 times
key code 124
delay 1.5
end repeat
end tell
But I want to improve on this. What I'm looking for is an AppleScript that will remove songs from iTunes (either songs selected or a whole playlist) and then re-add them, and play each one for 1 second. I'm almost there! This is what I've got:
global okflag, selectedTracks
set separator to "."
set okflag to false
-- check if iTunes is running
tell application "Finder"
if (get name of every process) contains "iTunes" then set okflag to true
end tell
if okflag then
try
tell application "iTunes"
copy (a reference to (get view of front window)) to thePlaylist
-- check if "Library"; later, we will not offer to number a Library playlist
set using_the_Library to false
if (class of thePlaylist) is library playlist then set using_the_Library to true
if item 1 of selection exists then
set using_selection to true
copy (selection's items) to theTracks
else -- its the whole playlist
set selectedTracks to (get a reference to thePlaylist)
copy (thePlaylist's tracks) to theTracks
set using_selection to false
end if
repeat with i from 1 to (count theTracks)
if using_selection then
copy item 1 of selection to thisTrack
else
copy track 1 of selectedTracks to thisTrack
end if
-- thisTrack now set
copy (get thisTrack's location) to location_in_finder
delete (some track of library playlist 1 whose database ID is (get database ID of thisTrack))
add location_in_finder to library playlist 1
end repeat
end tell -- iTunes
on error error_message number error_number
tell me to display dialog error_message & return & "Error number " & error_number
end try
end if -- okflag
This script takes the selected tracks (or the whole playlist, if nothing's selected) and removes the files from iTunes and then re-adds them. What I need to do is to play each re-added track for 1 second. How can I get a reference to the file I've re-added, so I can tell iTunes to play it?
Thanks in advance!
Best Answer
Figured it out!
Here's the relevant line:
set newTrack to add location_in_finder to library playlist 1
. I hadn't realized thatadd track
returned a reference to the track added, but the iTunes AppleScript dictionary showed me the light.The Final Script is below: