Re: Using "convert" from iTunes with ScriptingBridge

FROM : Dave Verwer
DATE : Thu Feb 07 12:10:06 2008

If no-one knows what is going on with this problem specifically, does
anyone have any links to decent documentation on using iTunes over
ScriptingBridge from ObjC?

Cheers
Dave

On 2/6/08, Dave Verwer <dave.<email_removed>> wrote:
> I am trying to use ScriptingBridge to control iTunes to convert and
> import an aiff file generated by my application, and failing.
>
> I have the file stored as an aiff on disk and the correct file name as
> an NSString. I also have an iTunesApplication instance up and working.
> However when I add the file name (as NSString) to an NSArray and call
> convert with it, nothing crashes but nothing seems to happen.
>
> An iTunes Track is successfully returned from the convert call but if
> I NSLog the returned object, I get this:
>
> 2008-02-06 19:11:01.317 TunesSampleApp[12073:613] (
> )
>
> I have pastie'd the code I am using here (I realise the Array building
> could be more efficient but I wanted to make sure i was drop dead
> simple for the example):
>
> http://pastie.caboo.se/148337
>
> As far as I can see, there is no documentation about what type the
> entries in the NSArray have to be to be accepted by iTunes or any
> documentation really on what convert should actually do.
>
> For all I know it could be converting the file but not adding it to
> iTunes and just storing it somewhere on the disk? Is there any
> documentation other than the sdef and .h files for the API's with
> ScriptingBridge?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Dave
>
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