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Save iTMS Music videos in iTunes 4.7.1
Thank you so much to "Umpa" for posting this AppleScript! Prior to this post, I first used "iTMS Extractor" to copy iTMS videos. Later, I switched to an AppleScript that used the "lsof" command (list open files), based on an idea I saw here I believe. From the posts in this thread, I see that there is another method - finding the MOV file in a certain directory. The iTMS, lsof, and directory methods all require waiting for the video to download before you can save it. And, it seems like QuickTime 7 breaks these. Before seeing ash7's Perl script (nice job, BTW!), I took a shot at modifying Umpa's AppleScript. This version (like the Perl script) automatically gets the artist and song name and presents a Save dialog box with the filename filled in. After you pick where to save, the AppleScript runs "wget" in Terminal. Hope others find this as useful as I've found all the other methods presented here.
Save iTMS Music videos in iTunes 4.7.1
Nice script, I like it..
Save iTMS Music videos in iTunes 4.7.1
Good tip, thanks! I've seen curl used (by Perl's CPAN?), but never looked into it. Looks like it runs on just about all platforms, too, like wget. Cool. Anyone know any other advantages of one over the other, besides that curl is bundled with our OS?
wget is GPL, curl is MIT
wget is also getting stale... I had noticed and didn't understand why. FreeBSD has a security advisory against wget that has yet to be resolved as well.
Save iTMS Music videos in iTunes 4.7.1
if it's not too much trouble ehlers, can you post an updated working script with your changes. I don't know how to do it myself. Thanks
Save iTMS Music videos in iTunes 4.7.1
You don't need fink or something similar, just plain OS X. But I'm quite sure you need the BSD subsystem installed. With the finder look into /Library/Receipts. If you have a BSD.pkg you should be fine. Otherwise install the BSD subsystem from your MAC OS system cd.
In the meantime I added some try blocks to catch some errors. Here's my current version.
Save iTMS Music videos in iTunes 4.7.1
I fixed this so that it does not use safari at all now, it will just open up a single terminal window for the download.
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Save iTMS Music videos in iTunes 4.7.1
Thanks for the "curl | gunzip" trick! Wish I had thought of that... :-)
Save iTMS Music videos in iTunes 4.7.1
I tried it on a hunch, i am glad it worked
I did notice a problem with my code though needs to be changed to
Save iTMS Music videos in iTunes 4.7.1
Does anyone know if this method breaks in iTunes 4.8?
Save iTMS Music videos in iTunes 4.7.1
The script works OK with oTunes 4.8 ;-) |
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