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13 October 2008
Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:57:38 GMTitunes.rb
So I never really post any code here. But why not? Who knows. Maybe I’ll start. Here’s a little script I wrote to drive iTunes in an alarm–clock–inspired fashion. It puts me to bed and wakes me up in the morning. Pretty good for 37 LOC huh?
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05 July 2005
Tue, 05 Jul 2005 21:44:00 GMT CoverFlowvia Kjell Olsen2408 days agoBrowse your album’s cover art in a gorgeous Aqua window. It just feels good to do this.
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18 April 2005
Mon, 18 Apr 2005 20:04:00 GMT furialogvia Kjell Olsen2486 days agoiTunes power user skillz:
My music collection is far larger than my Powerbook or iPod can accommodate, so my encoded selection rotates as new and revived interests push other things out of the active 20GB. Much of the time I use iTunes in Browse mode, listening to individual whole albums in the same way I would have pre-shuffle-era. But increasingly, and especially during periods when my listening isn’t so dominated by new releases, I also use iTunes’ Party Shuffle mode, fed by a Smart Playlist that filters out non-music genres, cuts out tracks that are too short (<1:30) or too long (>5:22) for my shuffle attention-span, and via another playlist reference excludes anything that has been played recently (i.e., in the last two weeks, or the last 10 hours of music, whichever list is shorter). If I’m in an especially random mood, I have an Applescript that goes through the upcoming Party Shuffle selections and eliminates repetition of artists.
Although on very rare occassions I do rate tracks manually, for the most part I find that it is more effective to treat the rating as a temporary variable representing my actual behavior towards the track, instead of an attempt to measure my subjective assessment directly. In my case, the rules are approximately these (I’ve left out some of the more logistical obscurities):
I love how concrete this is. I should do it like this, and maybe rate the song in the comments subjectively.
Automated payment of artists who’s work was downloaded, but not paid for. Sweet script to do it all without lifting a finger.
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