Get Artist and Track Name from Shazam to AppleScript

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#1

Make a shortcut with the name: Get the Artist and Track Name
Inside this shortcuts you will use:

  1. Shazam it
  2. Copy Shazam Media to clipboard (action)

Save it…

Next play a song from any media.

Run this script and you will return the Artist and Track Name of the song.

tell application "Shortcuts Events"
	run shortcut "Get the Artist and Track Name"
	return (the clipboard) as text
end tell

Or if we like to use record instead.

set shazam to getArtistAndTrackCurrentPlaying()

log artist of shazam
log track of shazam

on getArtistAndTrackCurrentPlaying()
	tell application "Shortcuts Events"
		run shortcut "Get the Artist and Track Name"
	end tell
	set artistTrack to (the clipboard) as text
	
	set ASTID to AppleScript's text item delimiters
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {" - "}
	set theList to every text item of artistTrack
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ASTID
	return {artist:item 1 of theList, track:item 2 of theList}
end getArtistAndTrackCurrentPlaying
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#2

So could we make something more useful and automate a script to change artist - track
from audio files. This simple example after trying to use and old script ASObjC that didn’t
work for me. Google made it not simple becouse playing a file and use ASObjC should work.

So I used afplay instead. I couldn’t use do shell script becouse I need 2 action to happen…

  1. Play the song.
  2. Run the shortcuts action.

Some ideas to a better solution is always welcome.

The script ask for audio file… play 10s and if shazam find the artist and track.
It will rename it with application “Finder”.

This version only accept 1 selection and quit after 10s

set theFile to POSIX path of (choose file)
tell application "Terminal" to do script "afplay -t 10 " & quoted form of theFile

set shazam to getArtistAndTrackCurrentPlaying()

delay 10

set target to POSIX file theFile as alias
set theFile to target

tell application "Finder"
	set name of theFile to (artist of shazam) & "-" & (track of shazam)
end tell

on getArtistAndTrackCurrentPlaying()
	tell application "Shortcuts Events"
		run shortcut "Get the Artist and Track Name"
	end tell
	set artistTrack to (the clipboard) as text
	
	set ASTID to AppleScript's text item delimiters
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {" - "}
	set theList to every text item of artistTrack
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ASTID
	return {artist:item 1 of theList, track:item 2 of theList} as record
end getArtistAndTrackCurrentPlaying
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