How To Enhance iTunes with AppleScript
// March 8th, 2011 // No Comments » // Apple, Software
I’ve been an iTunes user since its inception, running it starting on one of those old iMac G4′s with the half-dome base, and the movable screen — still my favorite iMac design. Anyway, iTunes has evolved and continued to add new features in all of its ten major software revisions — some good, some bad and some “meh.”
Throughout all of them, AppleScripts have helped enhance iTunes’ functionality. This article does a great job explaining the whole process and recommends a few good scripts that are useful to have. I already use a couple they recommended: “Update Expired Podcasts” and “Change iTunes Hidden Preferences.” I definitely need to get “Super Remove Dead Tracks” as well.
I first heard about the Griffin AirCurve with an older model – one designed for an older version of the iPhone, but I never saw, nor heard it in person. It was a curious device, able to passively amplify the iPhone’s tiny little speaker to a higher volume without power – AC or battery.
This is a great roundup, showcasing times when Apple has and hasn’t listened to the consumer and Apple fanboy masses. Like any company, sometimes they’re right to hold their ground. Sometimes, they’re outright wrong. Then other times, they relent, even though they disagree (the overblown iPhone 4 antenna, for example).
Just got a 16GB iPod Nano from my new employer — a kind of belated Christmas gift, though I wasn’t actually working there until after the holidays had passed. Regardless, it was a really nice gesture on their part, and I think my newest iPod would look sweet in Griffin’s new Courier Band:
