Comments on: Deeper iTunes Data

By: HeadChemists.com

HeadChemists.com — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 14:56:18 +0000

Is this “>the script doing something similar to what you want to do?

By: Matthew Schinckel

Matthew Schinckel — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 01:03:10 +0000

I never even started this. If you have any issues getting the data, and the info in other parts of this blog doesn’t help, I’m more than happy to help you out.

By: Adam Ochonicki

Adam Ochonicki — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 18:31:40 +0000

When will this be available? I am in need of a script that will find the most often played songs in a given week. This sounds like it would be a start in the right direction. I haven’t been able to find anything so I’m going to start writing my own applescript unless you have any suggestions.

-Adam

By: Matthew Schinckel

Matthew Schinckel — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 12:01:29 +0000

@Adrian: I’ll just point you towards The Long Tail, which deals with the idea that niche markets can be profitable under the right circumstances. I’m not saying I’m on the right track, but you never know…

besides, it would be mostly for my own interest anyway.

@Bob: I’ve no idea if this is easy to do. Sounds like it should be. I’ll have to look into it.

By: Bob Ippolito

Bob Ippolito — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:09:50 +0000

You could also write an iTunes plugin that causes your daemon to start up whenever iTunes does, which would make it pretty painless to keep the two in sync.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:07:07 +0000

Whilst a lot of these things are possible to do (like writing a daemon that logs more iTunes information to a DB) unless iTunes actually does this itself, these kind of features will never really permeate the market much, and hence will limit it’s usefulness to be fairly niche market.