iTunes music folder location?

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1

Hello,

I hope this question isn’t too stupid:

does anybody know how to (easily) retrieve the location of the iTunes music folder?

I know that I could parse the libraries .xml file, but i was hoping that there is an easier solution.

Thanks in advance for any help,
yours kodi

#2

Your stuff is in your Home/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music folder

#3

Hello Adam,

if I go to Preferences->Advanced->General and Change… my stuff might be in a different location :slight_smile:

My question was how to determine what a user chose as his prefered location.

Anyway, thanks for trying to help,
yours kodi

#4

Hi kodi,

Try this:


tell application "iTunes"
	set lib_pl to first library playlist
	set item_ref to location of first track of lib_pl
end tell
set n to ""
repeat until n is "iTunes"
	tell application "Finder"
		set item_ref to (container of item_ref)
		set n to name of item_ref
	end tell
end repeat
return item_ref as alias

Only bad thing is iTunes needs to open.

gl,

#5

Didn’t come up with much last time I saw this. Path to iTunes library

#6

Hello kel,

thanks for your code snippet.
Its not returning the location of the iTunes Music folder in my case.
But your method is returning one of the folders where I store my music,
which is even better!

So thanks again for this nice idea.

Just in case somebody might be interested how to do the same in python with appscript:

def getMusicFolder():
try:
libraryPlaylist = app(‘iTunes’).library_playlists.get()[0]
path = libraryPlaylist.tracks.get()[0].location.get().path
n = “”
while not n == “iTunes”:
path, n = os.path.split(path)
return path
except Exception, e:
print “[KRIX] unable to get music folder:”, e
return None

Thanks as well to Bruce for the forum link.
Have a nice day,
yours kodi