a script Id like to see (hint, hint)

iTunes is not really designed for this very well (even with a script). How would you stop someone from double clicking a song to start it playing?

The easiest way (depending on number of songs) might be to use the finder as a browser and write a small script that adds the song to a given playlist. Associate this script application with mp3, and double clicking a song would add it to the playlist which iTunes is playing through in the background.

Delta,

The idea is to double-click a song, but instead of it playing it gets queued up in the currently playing playlist.

Doug- I just thought it would be more intuitive for other people (when I have friends or family over) to just double-click a song. There are too many things that can go wrong if people are trying to drag songs, though it is a simple work around.

Obviously I have the barest minimum understanding of applescripting and I greatly appreciate any effort someone might be willing to put into giving this a spin. The way I envision it working would be to start playing a song from any given playlist, then activating the script, which until it was deactivated would add songs to that playlist rather than play when double-clicked.

Thanks again,

Tim

you could use something like xkeys (available from versiontracker.com) to invoke the script via a pf key or some such rather than double clicking on it.. then something like..

tell application "iTunes"
set fx to fixed indexing
set fixed indexing to true
set thisPlaylist to (get view of front window)
if selection is not {} then
copy selection to selectedTracks
else
copy every track of thisPlaylist to selectedTracks
end if
set activeplaylist to container of current track
repeat with thisTrack in selectedTracks
duplicate thisTrack to container of current track
end repeat
set fixed indexing to fx
end tell

would add the selected track/s or the whole playlist you are currently viewing if there is no selected tracks to the playlist of the current playing track.. sorting the playlist into the order added would require you to sort the playlist by column 1.. might need to add some checking regarding the nature of the current track.. not alot of point adding it to a radio stream for example..

as an aside.. making use of context menus in script editor to add code snippets (such as doug's selected track grabber used here) makes writing these scripts on the fly so much easier... Doug.. remember that thread about reuseable code snippets on the old board ? wonder if its worth recreating it here ?

think there's an issue with your link doug...:eek:

Doug and deeg. Never thought about it before, but you guys sound like a team of some kind. :)

Say, is there any way to have one AppleScript import another as a function when it opens? I was thinking the other day how useful it would be to have an AppleScript Library containing all the routines we use over and over again so we could call them as functions from one place - you know, sort of the way one can link to external JavaScripts in an HTML document?

Say, is there any way to have one AppleScript import another as a function when it opens

Create script objects (http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleScript/Conceptual/AppleScriptLangGuide/AppleScript.14.html) . Script objects are like sub-routines but stored in separate files, which you can save and then load (as libraries, as DeltaTee alludes to above), like "require" in Perl.