Starjewel

March 22, 2004

iTunes playlist

I've got two different plugins that will upload my last 10 played songs from Winamp to my blog, but has anyone seen a utility to do this for iTunes for Windows? I've Googled, and haven't seen anything but Applescripts. I suppose I could write something to parse the XML and ftp a file to include, but why reinvent the wheel.

A Blogging post by kim at 12:14 PM | Comments (6)

Comments

*eyebrow lift* as a linux-savvy individual, you should be used to reverse engineering and writing trite scripts by now...

Posted by: Bill at March 22, 2004 06:47 PM

It's all about the perl. It's just that I'd have to do it in my copious amounts of free time, and I have no desire to do so at this moment in time.

Posted by: kim at March 22, 2004 09:22 PM

The apropriate "geek" response to "...why reinvent the wheel."...because we can. Also in some cases we can improve upon the original design. Me, I don't want to enable ftp on my server, so I'm thinking about writing a winamp plugin that transmits over another means, perhaps ssh, http, or even samba.

Posted by: CSciCT at March 23, 2004 11:45 AM

SCP is always an option :)

the scripting isn't as big a deal as figuring out how to get itunes to automatically export the recently played list or some other option.

Posted by: kim at March 23, 2004 11:50 AM

I've been looking as well. The only thing that I have found that shows the last song you played is http://www.listen-to.com. The only thing is, the site is not really reliable and slow when it does actually work. The site is an interesting concept though.

Posted by: Gilberto Creque at April 13, 2004 03:59 PM

Hey, I've actually written a program that does just what you want, it's called IndieRock. I hope it works out for you! You can download it here: http://www.seniorjunior.org/code

Posted by: Robin at April 30, 2004 11:32 AM