iTunes artwork problems

maddys_daddy · January 25, 2005, 5:53am

The following script worked when I first ran it (it’s not mine, I found it elsewhere), but I now get an AS NSCannotCreateScriptCommandError error. By running it from Script Editor, and viewing the Event Log, I’ve narrowed it down to the section where the script is trying to get the data from the track’s artwork. The script is a rating script (1 of 5) for rating iTunes songs via QS hotkeys. Here’s the script:

–Open this script in a new Script Editor window.

property black_star : «data utxt2605» as Unicode text
property white_star : «data utxt2606» as Unicode text

tell application “System Events” to set GrowlRunning to ¬
((application processes whose (name is equal to ¬
“GrowlHelperApp”)) count)

if GrowlRunning is greater than or equal to 1 then
set appName to “iTunes ratings”
set notificationName to “Ratings”
set notifs to {notificationName}
tell application “GrowlHelperApp”
register as application appName all notifications notifs default notifications notifs icon of application “iTunes”
end tell
tell application “iTunes”
if class of current track is in {track, file track, URL track, device track, shared track, audio CD} then
set aTrack to current track
tell aTrack to set rating to 100
set puppies to (name of aTrack)
set rate to (rating of aTrack)
set stars to (rate div 20)
if rate is greater than 0 and stars is equal to 0 then
set stars to 1 – after all, a 10 rating isn’t no stars
end if
set giraffes to “” as Unicode text
repeat with i from 1 to stars
set giraffes to giraffes & black_star
end repeat
repeat with i from stars to 4
set giraffes to giraffes & white_star
end repeat
           [b][color=blue]if[/color][/b] [color=blue]class[/color] [b][color=blue]of[/color][/b] [color=green]aTrack[/color] [b][color=blue]is[/color][/b] [color=blue]URL track[/color] [b][color=blue]then[/color][/b]
                [b][color=blue]set[/color][/b] [color=green]kittens[/color] [b][color=blue]to[/color][/b] [color=blue]current stream title[/color]
                [b][color=blue]set[/color][/b] [color=green]chickens[/color] [b][color=blue]to[/color][/b] ([color=blue]bit rate[/color] [b][color=blue]of[/color][/b] [color=green]aTrack[/color])
                [b][color=blue]tell[/color][/b] [color=blue]application[/color] "GrowlHelperApp"
                     [color=blue]notify[/color] [color=blue]with name[/color] [color=green]notificationName[/color] [color=blue]title[/color] "Streaming Radio (" & [color=green]chickens[/color] & " kbps)" [color=blue]application name[/color] [color=green]appName[/color] [color=blue]description[/color] [color=green]puppies[/color] & [color=blue]return[/color] & [color=green]kittens[/color] & [color=blue]return[/color] & [color=green]giraffes[/color]
                [b][color=blue]end[/color][/b] [b][color=blue]tell[/color][/b]
           [b][color=blue]else[/color][/b]
                [b][color=blue]set[/color][/b] [color=green]chickens[/color] [b][color=blue]to[/color][/b] ([color=blue]album[/color] [b][color=blue]of[/color][/b] [color=green]aTrack[/color])
                [b][color=blue]set[/color][/b] [color=green]kittens[/color] [b][color=blue]to[/color][/b] ([color=blue]artist[/color] [b][color=blue]of[/color][/b] [color=green]aTrack[/color])
                [b][color=blue]if[/color][/b] [color=blue]exists[/color] [color=blue]artworks[/color] [b][color=blue]of[/color][/b] [color=green]aTrack[/color] [b][color=blue]then[/color][/b]
                     [b][color=blue]set[/color][/b] [color=green]aw[/color] [b][color=blue]to[/color][/b] [color=blue]data[/color] [b][color=blue]of[/color][/b] ([color=blue]artwork[/color] 1 [b][color=blue]of[/color][/b] [color=green]aTrack[/color])
                     
                     [b][color=blue]tell[/color][/b] [color=blue]application[/color] "GrowlHelperApp"
                          [color=blue]notify[/color] [color=blue]with name[/color] [color=green]notificationName[/color] [color=blue]title[/color] [color=green]puppies[/color] [color=blue]application name[/color] [color=green]appName[/color] [color=blue]description[/color] [color=green]kittens[/color] & [color=blue]return[/color] & [color=green]chickens[/color] & [color=blue]return[/color] & [color=green]giraffes[/color] [color=blue]pictImage[/color] [color=green]aw[/color]
                     [b][color=blue]end[/color][/b] [b][color=blue]tell[/color][/b]
                     (*
tell application “Quicksilver”
show notification puppies ¬
text kittens & return & chickens & return & giraffes ¬
image data aw
end tell
*)
else
tell application “GrowlHelperApp”
notify with name notificationName title puppies application name appName description kittens & return & chickens & return & giraffes
end tell
end if
end if
else
set puppies to “No current track”
tell application “GrowlHelperApp”
notify with name notificationName title puppies description puppies application name appName
end tell
end if
end tell
end if

[This script was automatically tagged for color coded syntax by Convert Script to Markup Code]

Note that there is the commented out section for passing the notification task to QuickSilver–running the script either way results in the same error, just from the respective app. (Actally scripting is broken in the latest beta of QS, but that’s besides the point) Can someone please help me figure out why AS is unable to properly parse the artwork data? Like I said, this script worked as is before, and now it doesn’t. I’m not sure what, if any, updates or upgrades broke it, but it’s definitely broken now.
TIA!

maddys_daddy · January 25, 2005, 5:57am

Oh, and here’s the output from the Event Log in Script Editor:

tell application "System Events"
	count every application process whose name = "GrowlHelperApp"
		1
end tell
tell application "GrowlHelperApp"
	register as application "iTunes ratings" all notifications {"Ratings"} default notifications {"Ratings"} icon of application "iTunes"
end tell
tell application "iTunes"
	get class of current track
		file track
	get current track
		file track id 1142 of library playlist id 965 of source id 48
	set rating of file track id 1142 of library playlist id 965 of source id 48 to 100
	get name of file track id 1142 of library playlist id 965 of source id 48
		"Home"
	get rating of file track id 1142 of library playlist id 965 of source id 48
		100
	get class of file track id 1142 of library playlist id 965 of source id 48
		file track
	get album of file track id 1142 of library playlist id 965 of source id 48
		"12 Stones"
	get artist of file track id 1142 of library playlist id 965 of source id 48
		"12 Stones"
	exists every artwork of file track id 1142 of library playlist id 965 of source id 48
		true
	get data of artwork 1 of file track id 1142 of library playlist id 965 of source id 48
		«data PICTBC7200000000012C0
<<<SNIPPED ALOT>>>
0736565207468697320706963747572652E000000FF»
		"GrowlHelperApp got an error: NSCannotCreateScriptCommandError"

TTT