Posted by Paul Soderman on 06/04/07 16:14

I'd be willing to give AppleScript a try. While I haven't yet tried to
create any scripts, since it is a Mac I suppose that things can't be
too unduly difficult. I have only 3 fields which need to be imported,
"Song", "Artist" and "Year", which would be inserted into the
appropriate boxes on iTunes. In theory, I would think that I would
essentially be directing the Mac to do a series of cut and paste
operations from the database/spreadsheet file into the iTunes window
where "Get Info" would be revealing the track names to be imported
from the CDR.

I did take the suggestion offered as to the shareware "CopyPaste";
however, I was unable to get it to open the spreadsheet file in
question. I cut and pasted from that file into the CopyPaste program,
but was unable to figure out how it was supposed to get the data into
iTunes. If anyone could direct me to a site where I might be able to
figure out how to create such a script, it'd be appreciated!

On Jun 4, 6:47 am, J. Stewart <cfnz...@crevtrr.arg> wrote:
> On 2007-06-03 17:55:54 -0400, sbt <dogbre...@chaseabone.com.invalid> said:
>
> >> Hopefully, I've described what I'm looking to do with sufficient
> >> clarity to get some help. Is there any way I can do this? I'm running
> >>iTunes7.2 on a Mac with OS 10.4.9. Much thanks for any help!
>
> > I'm not aware of any "pre-canned" method for accomplishing what you
> > request; however, you say that you have a tab-delimited text file with
> > the information. You should be able to write an AppleScript that takes
> > the information from the tab-delimited file and tellsiTunesto place
> > the data in the corresponding fields (the trick will be having the
> > songs in the correct order so that the data maps across properly).
>
> I'm also not aware of any pre-canned method but I can tell you that an
> Applescript that can do this is possible to write assuming you know the
> basics. The problems would be the time required for it to run which is
> dependent on the number of tracks/records involved and error checking.
> On a scale of 1 to 10 where 1 is the easiest, I'd rate it as a 3 or 4
>
> If you'd care to contact me off list we can discuss it in more detail.
>
> J
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