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Tooting my own ITMS horn
Authored by: joemaller on Mar 03, '05 03:11:49PM
I might have been the first to do this shortly after the ITMS debuted at the end of April 2003, predating by nearly a month Philipp Ringli's ITMS players (the MacUpdate and Doug's AppleScripts players are both his).

My script was ridiculously simple (and unlocked):
on idle
    tell application "iTunes" to play (next track)
    return 30
end idle

It's a neat little trick. Back in 2003 I was surprised no one had done it before me.

Fiddling with random word searches can get lists longer than one album. ITMS searches seem to limit results to 75 songs, so the best you can do is 37.5 minutes of uninterrupted samples, but if you don't mind listening to 30 seconds samples that probably won't bug you too much. Some interesting results are searches for colors (red, blue, green, etc), common words (love, war, brother, sister, etc). It would be fun to add something to the script to rebuild a random ITMS search list every so often. Free short-attention span radio.

Thank you cudaboy. It's good to see people are still making and sharing stuff like this.



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