Raving and Drooling – A lion’s tail

In Linkinus, you can get the currently playing iTunes track info by typing /itunes, which is all well and good, but what if you have a beautiful g4 iMac dedicated to IRC, but you play your music on another computer ? Alas, all is lost ! O wait, no it isn’t, all you have to do is enable “Remote Apple Events” on the computer with iTunes (in sharing, in system preferences) and then open up ~/Library/Application Support/Linkinus 2/Scripts/itunes.scpt and make the following changes:

1. Change:

	tell application "Finder"
		if (get name of every process) contains "iTunes" then set itunes_active to true
	end tell

To:

	set itunes_active to true

This will stop it checking on the local computer for iTunes. Next change:

	tell application "iTunes"
		if player state is playing then
			set theTrack to name of the current track
			set theArtist to artist of the current track
			set theAlbum to album of the current track
			set theBitrate to bit rate of the current track
			set theKind to kind of the current track
			set theRating to rating of the current track
			set theStream to current stream title
			set got_track to true
		end if
	end tell

To:

	set dest to "eppc://username:password@hostname"
	using terms from application "iTunes"
		tell application "iTunes" of machine dest
			set theTrack to name of the current track
			set theArtist to artist of the current track
			set theAlbum to album of the current track
			set theBitrate to bit rate of the current track
			set theKind to kind of the current track
			set theRating to rating of the current track
			set theStream to current stream title
			set got_track to true
		end tell
	end using terms from

… and lo and behold, you’re getting your iTunes track info from the remote computer instead. Geek points +1 for today.