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Set picture from current album?
Authored by: thebug on Jul 25, '06 09:22:38PM
I googled a bit and came up with this script to save artwork to a folder. It does the heavy lifting of getting the image of the current song.

http://www.dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/scripts13.php?page=1#saveartworktofolder

This doesn't do everything you want, but you could combine this to easily set your desktop picture to the current album. Just save out the current song art, then execute any of these "set desktop" scripts.

Now if you want to overlay this on the current desktop image, that's more work. You'd need to find some scriptable solution to combine the files (there are many, Image Magik comes to mind). I think I've seen a few hints about doing something like that. Or you could use GeekTool (it has a setting for picture).

Of course you'd have to get something to be notifed when iTunes switched songs. Or you can just poll every so many seconds.


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