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ski93
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I'm trying to get my itunes info eg: album art, song etc, to display on my desktop with geektool. I watched this tutorial on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2e8VRZvRCY and the person posted this link with the codes in them http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/5/29/41982/Geektool%204%20Script

the part where I am confused is if I paste these codes into apple script editor how do I get them to show in geektool??

I hope this makes sense and thank you in advance for your help
Dec 26 2010 2:37PM
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Jaymon
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first off open up geektool... i assume you have it downloaded

click shell, drag a window onto your desktop. Makesure the box next to where you created the shell in geek tool says enable

After draggin a terminal shell onto the desktop a window should pop up, in the second section where it says "command" copy and paste your script for desired function

change color and size and such so it is visible

voila!

hope that helped, probably hard to understand unless you have it open and go step by step
Dec 26 2010 4:35PM
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ski93
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i tried this and i get the red bubble showing up, in the instructions she talked about making it executable in terminal or something but she didn't explain how to do it. Is this right? i'm so lost haha
Dec 26 2010 6:23PM
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Deezy
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fuck that, ill help ya.

text edit this

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tell application "System Events"
set powerCheck to ((application processes whose (name is equal to "iTunes")) count)
if powerCheck = 0 then
return ""
end if
end tell
tell application "iTunes"
try
set playerstate to (get player state)
end try
if playerstate = paused then
set trackPaused to " - Paused"
else
set trackPaused to ""
end if
if playerstate = stopped then
return " Stopped"
end if
set trackID to the current track
set trackName to the name of trackID
set artistName to the artist of trackID
set albumName to the album of trackID
set totalData to "Track : " & trackName & trackPaused & "
Artist : " & artistName
return totalData
end tell

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save as iTunesinfo.scpt (change to scpt after u save)

then in a geektool command

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osascript /Users/(WHERE THE FILE IS)/iTunesInfo.scpt
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if you have any more questions PM me

btw use the searchbar, i have a thread on this.
Dec 26 2010 6:34PM
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ski93
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THANK YOU! i already have you at max karma
Dec 26 2010 7:47PM
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derpina
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How do I get just the Track Name and Artist? Every time I try to delete the album it deletes everything.


THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!
May 26 2011 3:28PM
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