PlaySingleTrack

Ever wondered how you can play a single track? Think of it: You navigate to a track in your music library, and you want to play it. Just it. Yes: iTunes offers no method of doing this (except creating a new playlist, adding the track, playing the track und deleting the playlist afterwards. Yes, this sucks).

The bad news: I have ne better solution. Now the good news: You don't have to do it yourself! Here's the script that does it all for you: (place into ~/Library/iTunes/Scripts/)

global tempplaylistname

on run

set tempplaylistname to "temp"

(* Create new playlist, if not existing *)

tell me to set pl to newtempplaylist()

(* selected track -> pl *)

tell application "iTunes"

(* remember old playlist *)

set oldpl to view of (browser window 1)

try

get class of selection

1. log selection
2. if ((count of selection) is greater than 0) then

set t to first item in selection

(* track into playlist *)

duplicate t to pl

(* playlist repeat off *)

set song repeat of pl to off

(* playlist to front *)

try

1. set view of front window to playlist pl
2. set view of browser window to pl
3. set view of (browser window 1) to user playlist pl (*Fuck! (iTunes got an error: A descriptor type mismatch occurred.)*)

set view of (browser window 1) to pl (* Works with iTunes 9 *)

on error (e)

log "Fuck! (" & e & ")"

end try

(* play track *)

play first item of tracks of pl

(* Wait until track played or stopped *)

set dur to duration of t

repeat dur times

if player state is not playing then exit repeat

delay 1.0

end repeat

(* restore old playlist *)

set view of (browser window 1) to oldpl

on error (e)

display dialog "Select something, you weenie!" buttons "Yes, your highness!"

end try

(* delete temp playlist *)

delete pl

end tell

end run

(* Create a temp playlist we will delete afterwards *)

on newtempplaylist()

tell application "iTunes"

set pl to make new user playlist with properties {name:tempplaylistname & " as of " & (current date) as string}

end tell

return pl

end newtempplaylist