[ABE.pm] I'm a Mac user!
Ricardo SIGNES
rjbs-perl-abe at lists.manxome.org
Fri Aug 18 08:27:25 PDT 2006
* Steve Lidie <sol0 at Lehigh.EDU> [2006-08-18T10:12:56]
> > I just wish there was an easier way to tell iTunes that a playlist should
> > not have more than X tracks or Y percent of one artist.
>
> Now maybe back on topic for the group: sounds like you should write
> a Perl filter to generate a compatible subset of a playlist
> digestible by iTunes :)
I've started to do so once or twice. The problem is that the existing Perl
iTunes data reader wasn't so good. I couldn't use the XML because the Apple
plist XML format is pathological. I couldn't use AppleScript because iTunes'
apple events are slow. :-/
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rjbs
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