[GrowlTunes] displaying the composer ?

Laozi · Post by **Laozi** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 11:51 am

I want to get the composer displayed within the GrowlTunes window. I tried to edit the scripts :

GrowlTunes > Contents > Resources > jackItunesInfo.scpt
GrowlTunes > Contents > Resources > Scripts > jackItunesInfo.scpt

adding "set aTrackComposer to composer of aTrack" and aTrackComposer on the line set returnValue.

Unfortunately, it doesn't work.

Any cue ?

Thanks !

zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 9:41 pm

You would need to reprogram GrowlTunes.

Hmm… maybe I should do it! If I don’t, this is what I have in mind:

The composer would go after the artist (just for Classical music):

Code: Select all

Adagio for Strings
Los Angeles Philharmonic, composed by Samuel Barber
Bernstein's America: Copeland, Gershwin, Barber & Bernstein

That would use an if statement with “includes "Classical"”

Now to work!

Laozi · Post by **Laozi** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 9:57 pm

I'm quite precise with my iTunes files and I write down the composer on almost every track of every kind of music, not only classical ! So, it would be great for me to have this information displayed by GrowlTunes.
Actually, I'm not a programer, I just followed my intuition, trying to edit the scripts as I did in the past with iChatStatus scripts but it didn't work with GrowlTunes

If you do it, I think that you will make a lot of people happy, not only me !

zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 12:16 am

Laozi wrote:I'm quite precise with my iTunes files and I write down the composer on almost every track of every kind of music, not only classical ! So, it would be great for me to have this information displayed by GrowlTunes.
Actually, I'm not a programer, I just followed my intuition, trying to edit the scripts as I did in the past with iChatStatus scripts but it didn't work with GrowlTunes

If you do it, I think that you will make a lot of people happy, not only me !

Well, where should I put it? After the artist like I said before? Or where?

Laozi · Post by **Laozi** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 8:01 am

Yes, after the artitst(s) would be great !

zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 5:12 pm

Meh... I can't do it for quite a while. My iBook won't start up

But now here is the plan:
1. Have a drop-down in the menu item with options for displaying.
2. This will control what you see in the notifications.
3. And will add other things like Genre, Grouping, etc.

Post by **The_Tick** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 5:28 pm

zaudragon wrote:Meh... I can't do it for quite a while. My iBook won't start up
.

What's it doing?

zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 8:26 pm

OK, I got a new iBook, and I finished it (I think).

Laozi · Post by **Laozi** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 6:52 am

OOoooops

I forgot to thank you ! So, thank you so much for improving GrowlTunes !

anchorboi · Post by **anchorboi** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 10:43 pm

Nice! I, for one, don't use the composer tag and don't want the track length & rating around, but maybe the comments... would be great if every display line could be customized...

John Don · Post by **John Don** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 12:21 am

anchorboi wrote:Nice! I, for one, don't use the composer tag and don't want the track length & rating around, but maybe the comments... would be great if every display line could be customized...

What if one could drag the info around to suit their tastes? Like, say you have a checkbox of each possible info that can be put in the display. When you check what you want, it is then added inside a text box. From that text box you can drag the info "up" the list, or you can drag it "down" the list, depending on how you want it displayed. Is that feasible, or wishful thinking?

zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 2:45 am

John Don wrote:
anchorboi wrote:Nice! I, for one, don't use the composer tag and don't want the track length & rating around, but maybe the comments... would be great if every display line could be customized...
What if one could drag the info around to suit their tastes? Like, say you have a checkbox of each possible info that can be put in the display. When you check what you want, it is then added inside a text box. From that text box you can drag the info "up" the list, or you can drag it "down" the list, depending on how you want it displayed. Is that feasible, or wishful thinking?

Right now the trunk has a checkbox thing. Eventually we may go that far, but I’m too lazy to do it

highpass · Post by **highpass** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 1:22 pm

I'm another user looking to remove the Composer information line.

At first i thought it would be a simple matter of removing the following:

"set aTrackComposer to composer of aTrack"

and

"aTrackComposer" (from the returnvalues).

Obviously there's a little more to it than this, because it's not working as i'd hoped.
Can anyone throw some light on things for me?

Cheers.

zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 12:44 am

highpass wrote:I'm another user looking to remove the Composer information line.

At first i thought it would be a simple matter of removing the following:

"set aTrackComposer to composer of aTrack"

and

"aTrackComposer" (from the returnvalues).

Obviously there's a little more to it than this, because it's not working as i'd hoped.
Can anyone throw some light on things for me?

Cheers.

Be patient. The next major version will have a preference as to which fields you want.

highpass · Post by **highpass** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 10:49 am

Ahh that's great news, i'll keep quiet then.

cheers!