iTunes Current Track

May 26, 2010 - 00:15:34 UTC

This is a script that I wrote to get Geektool to display the current track that iTunes is playing.

Edit: With the addition of a lovely tool iconv, this script now supports all known characters (including non-english characters).

Sample Output:

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Die Toten Hosen

Geektool Shell Entry:

osascript /path/to/itunes.scpt | \
iconv -f utf-8 -t ucs-2-internal

Code:

tell application "iTunes"
	if it is running then
		set this_name to the name of current track
		set this_artist to the artist of current track
 
		this_artist & "\n" & this_name
	end if
end tell

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