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Queue an iTunes song after currently playing library song
Authored by: DougAdams on Apr 20, '07 07:38:24AM

While this is neat and all, why not just use Party Shuffle? Right-click/Control click a track and choose "Add Next to Party Shuffle" from the menu.

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Queue an iTunes song after currently playing library song
Authored by: itrebax on Apr 20, '07 08:23:32AM

The point is to continue playing the currently playing song and then play the queued song after the currently playing song. If I forget to or don't use a playlist or party shuffle I don't believe this is possible. If it is I would love to know how to do it.



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Queue an iTunes song after currently playing library song
Authored by: acvh on Apr 21, '07 07:59:04AM
I made one change and this script fills a definite "want" for me. I hardcoded it to use the Party Shuffle, so now, if I'm listening to a tune from a "not Party Shuffle" playlist, and want to start up a PS session with a new song, without screwing up the active tune, I can use this script to copying the playing tune to PS, add the next tune and go off Party Shuffle browsing.

A minor thing, but the absence of this ability was an annoyance for me. I would forget that the active song wasn't in PS, add a new tune to PS, and the new one would start right up, sending the active song to the void.

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Queue an iTunes song after currently playing library song
Authored by: Laner on Apr 24, '07 01:58:38AM

Please post the script you use. I would love to be able to move my playing song to Party Shuffle



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Queue an iTunes song after currently playing library song
Authored by: itrebax on Apr 24, '07 08:16:15AM

Just change "Queue" to "Party Shuffle" or whatever playlist you want to use as a target.



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Queue an iTunes song after currently playing library song
Authored by: itrebax on Apr 24, '07 08:24:49AM
Although if you just want to move the currently playing track to party shuffle, you can use this simpler script.

tell application "iTunes"
	set queuePlaylist to playlist "Party Shuffle"
	if current playlist is not queuePlaylist then
		set curtrack to (duplicate current track to queuePlaylist)
		set playPosition to player position
		play curtrack
		set player position to playPosition
	end if
end tell


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Queue an iTunes song after currently playing library song
Authored by: Laner on Apr 24, '07 11:01:26AM

But what triggers at end of party shuffle or next in shuffle?



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Queue an iTunes song after currently playing library song
Authored by: itrebax on Apr 24, '07 11:56:18AM

I don't understand your question.



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Queue an iTunes song after currently playing library song
Authored by: Laner on Apr 24, '07 11:58:39PM

When I run the script with "Party Shuffle" the song gets added to the end of the playlist. I would like one that adds the selected song as next in party shuffle.



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Queue an iTunes song after currently playing library song
Authored by: itrebax on Apr 25, '07 12:08:26PM
Have you seen the comments in this thread?

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040830035448525

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Queue an iTunes song after currently playing library song
Authored by: Laner on Apr 25, '07 12:28:06PM

Yes. But I use quicksilver. So I'm trying to make a script the will replace the "add to next" and "add to" options in Quicksilver. Because I'm not always in PArty Shuffle. So a script that does the same and moves the currently playing would be nice.



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Bravo DOUG!
Authored by: sblowes on Apr 21, '07 08:52:49AM

Doug Adams is THE man when it comes to iTunes scripting... so it's pretty cool to see him suggest a built in feature when the hack is not necessary. You gotta be smart to code your own solutions... but smarter to know when not to code. Bravo, Doug.


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Since you are asking ...
Authored by: hamarkus on Apr 21, '07 11:40:59AM

... I never use Party Shuffle because it is essentially just another way of using the Shuffle function, which I have found no use for so far. (Admittedly, there is the added benefit of being able to see what is coming and to edit the list, but it is still useless for me.)

Firstly, this script creates a bonafide playlist, not some randomly selected mostly inappropriate list which I have to keep cleaning up, as Party Shuffle does.

Secondly, it has the elegance of being instant (current song is not interupted), of not cluttering up your source list when you don't need it (as Party Shuffle does), and of creating a playlist with a meaningful and configurable name.



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Since you are asking ...
Authored by: BMarsh on Apr 23, '07 08:10:17AM

Party Shuffle can use any other playlist (including smart playlists) as a source... so the content in Party Shuffle is entirely configurable by you.

(with things like genre, BPM, "My Rating" features, you can fine tune the content in another Play List, then Party Shuffle itself adds the ability to add requests to the mix.)



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Since you are asking ...
Authored by: hamarkus on Apr 23, '07 09:50:12AM

The main point of Party Shuffle is to make it possible to shuffle through a playlist and see what is coming up and edit the playing order yourself.

If you have a playlist that is small enough (to be homogeneous enough that you would want to use Shuffle) but also large enough (so even with Shuffle you don't always listening to the same songs), than Party Shuffle is very usefull. In other words, there is an operational window in terms of playlist (or more generally 'source') size for Party Shuffle, it just happens to be rather small for me.

However, this script is for ad-hoc playlists. Party Shuffle could be used for this by selecting an emply playlist as its source. Still, it would not have the elegance of this script: keep current song playing, accessible via shortcut, do not have both Party Shuffle and this empty playlist in the source pane when you don't need it.

To summarize: yes, Party Shuffle could be used for the purpose this script was written for (ad-hoc playlists) but it is not as elegant a solution.



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