[jamesa]

Hey,

I'm pretty new to AppleScripting, but I was trying to make iTunes script. However... it doesn't seem to want to.

tell application "iTunes"
activate
play
end tell

From what I can gather, that should open iTunes and get it to start playing.

Instead, I get an error: "the variable play is not defined".

This link says that play is the variable to start playing songs.

Any help would be much appreciated

-- james

[gralem]

This is the thing I *HATE HATE HATE* about applescript...how do you know what commands work for what application?!!

Unfortunately, the link you gave was for a PERL script ("control iTunes from Perl"...via applescript). "play" is a valid method in this perl module that then calls the appropriate iTunes applescript command.

The only way I know anything about the command is because I downloaded the iTunes Script Collection from http://www.apple.com/applescript/itunes

Looking at the script entitled "Play Random Track", you can see that you have "track" variable/object somehow, and then use the "play" command followed by the variable:

tell playlist library
set this_track to first track
play this_track

(I hope this helps). But there *MUST* be some way of saying "play current track from current playlist" or "pause/resume current track". How do you get these commands for an individual application?

---gralem

[Diggory Laycock]

perhaps because there is no event called play in the iTunes Dictionary.

You are looking for PlayPause.

To see what commands you can issue to an app look at its AppleScript Dictionary in Script Editor. (file menu - Open Dictionary.)

[Anomalous]

Originally posted by jamesa:
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tell application "iTunes"
activate
play
end tell

Strangely, that script works fine on my computer. Are you using Script Editor? What version?