An AppleScript to send iTunes info to a weblog

Nov 15, '06 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: rasman1978

There is a significant shortage of tools available for sending information about your current iTunes song to your blog. For Windows, there's iTunesBlogger, but for the Mac, there's not really anything that's simple and transparent. So I wrote an AppleScript that works in conjunction with a PHP script called TrackTunes (part of the CG-PowerPack) to get my currently-playing iTunes song to display properly on my WordPress blog. The script is here:

Blog Current Song.scpt

Further information about my research into this topic and how to install and run the script is available in this entry on my blog.

[robg adds: As the referenced blog entry is rather detailed, I won't try to repeat it here. As noted in the entry, there's a Mac app called Recent Tunes that will do this for you. It's what I've been using on my personal blog, but it is a bit flakey, sometimes not updating the songs when it should. The program hasn't been updated since 2004, and is unlikely to be updated in the future, so the above script/PHP code might be the best solution.]

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