py-appscript & events

Question

Is it possible to subscribe to events using py-appscript ?

Example: I'd like to get a callback when a user changes a rating on iTunes.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 01 '10 at 21:37

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Some very few applications are recordable: that is, they'll send Apple Events to themselves which can be intercepted. iTunes is not one of these applications. iTunes does send distributed notifications for music start/stop, but not for rating changes. Assuming you don't want to patch iTunes itself, your only real choice is to parse iTunes Music Library.xml.

answered Oct 01 '10 at 21:37

Nicholas Riley

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thanks for your answer. Just one small note: there is no need to parse the database.xml directly though: I found the way to access the data through py-appscript. – jldupont Oct 01 '10 at 21:40
Of course you can do it that way too; I just meant it'd be a file you can watch for changes. – Nicholas Riley Oct 01 '10 at 21:51

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