If you've got a full cover art library in iTunes, you want to show it off in iChat! Here are the basic steps which I recently
blogged for myself:
- Get GraphicsImporter OSAX.
- Make sure iChat AV Beta is installed.
- Run this script:
set theAlbum to ""
set theData to ""
tell application "iTunes"
set theAlbum to album of current track
set theData to (data of artwork 1 of current track)
end tell
set theTiff to giconvert theData type "TIFF" resolution {32, 32}
tell application "iChat"
set status message to theAlbum
set image to theTiff
end tell
- Change a lot, add error detection, stuff like that.
Notice that you don't need iChatStatus any more, since there's a real AppleScript interface to change the status message. Just write an AppleScript application with an idle statement, and voila!