Comments on: Go To My Music

By: Glenn Sugden

Glenn Sugden — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:05:18 +0000

Here’s a shortcut I use a lot while rating unrated music, etc.:

tell application “iTunes”
reveal current track
activate
end tell

By: Vincent

Vincent — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 06:40:48 +0000

Great solution! Really weird why Apple did not include a shortcut for this simple but often-used action.

By: Twist

Twist — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:22:26 +0000

Alright here is the improved version of the script I mentioned in my previous comment:

“tell application “iTunes” to set view of (browser window 1) to playlist (name of current playlist)”

It is all one line and should execute a tiny bit faster than the Daniel’s original script because of this (you will only notice it on really slow computers though).

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 04:15:31 +0000

Fantastic Stuff

Thanks

By: Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:57:39 +0000

Hi Yoram – the difference is the location I mentioned is where you put it to get it to show up in FastScripts or Apple’s Script Menu. iTunes does have its own app-specific script menu which is different. I wasn’t aware until today that system preferences keyboard shortcuts would work when the iTunes-specific script menu is used. That’s cool!

By: Yoram Blumenberg

Yoram Blumenberg — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:36:49 +0000

Nice script but it didn’t worked when I put it in the folder you said … I had to change/put it into:
“~/Library/iTunes/Scripts/Go To Music.scpt”

Besides that … you don’t needFastScripts to nail keyboard shortcut to it: in Mac OS X 10.6 you can add a shortcut via: System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Application Shortcuts (left sidebar) > [+] > Application: iTunes – Menu Title: “Go To Music” – Keyboard Shortcut: “⌥⌘M” (as example)

By: Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:05:32 +0000

Hi Twist – you haven’t missed that feature in FastScripts. Sounds like a great idea, though. The infrastructure for FastScripts is designed in a way that would make something like that fairly easy. The hardest part would be designing and implementing the UI. I’m adding it to my feature “maybes” list.

By: Twist

Twist — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:01:22 +0000

I think it is possible to get the playlist of the currently playing item and then you could set the view to that playlist so that this script would work no matter what playlist your track is contained in. I don’t have time to look into it right now but the syntax is something like this:

set view of (browser window 1) to Playlist of (current track)

I have written a number of iTunes scripts for use in iKey and have been looking at FastScripts but it doesn’t appear to have a feature I really need which is defining sets of hotkeys that work in all application except a list of applications (mostly just the Adobe CS apps and some games) I can define to be excluded. If I have just missed this feature then please correct me because I am kind of worried about the future of iKey with Snow Leopard.

By: Todd Ditchendorf

Todd Ditchendorf — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:00:21 +0000

the cmd-L shortcut is very nice, and i use that alot.

but usually the situation is that i was browsing the iTunes Store and playing music/media there. and then i want to go back to my own local music library without taking my mits off the keyboard. so in that very common case, cmd-L doesn’t work cuz I’m not currently playing anything in my library.

this shortcut with FastScripts is a *really* nice addition to iTunes :)

By: Matt Parcher

Matt Parcher — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:56:32 +0000

Also, if music is already playing, you can use CMD-L to go to the currently playing song.