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• old skool (Score:1)

  by pudge (1)

  I've been doing this in iTunes since before there WAS an iTunes (that is, in SoundJam, its predecessor), from ircle. I have /next, /play, /stop, /previous, /np, etc., all as small compiled AppleScripts, which is quite a bit faster than compiling AppleScript on the fly.
  
  brian may wish to look into including compiled AppleScripts with the module, or, better yet, using osacompile to write out scripts to a directory during make, or on demand. Something like:

  my $folder = dirname($INC{'Mac/iTunes.pm');
  my $scri
  • Re:old skool (Score:2)

    by cwest (1514)

    Yeah, Mac::iTunes is incredibly slow, thus my first ever direct use of fork in Perl code.
    

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    Casey West
    • Re:old skool (Score:1)

      by brian_d_foy (44)

      i'm not too worried about speed at the moment. once Mac::iTunes::AppleScript loads, things are faster than i expected. if you use it for only one command then dump out of the script, well, that's what you get.
      
      i'm also working on an iTunes command server so a daemon process accepts commands.
      
      i'll check out the compiled stuff later. right now i'm still wrestling with iTunes to make it do what it advertises. :)
      • Re:old skool (Score:2)

        by cwest (1514) on 2002.09.25 16:12 (#13288) Homepage Journal

        Hrm.. POE::Component::(Client|Server)::iTunes
        
        I'm feeling the itch...
        
        

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        Casey West

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