Comments on: Quicksilver Screencast: Tags & Playlists

By: managing my ever growing music library at criticaldistance

managing my ever growing music library at criticaldistance — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 00:28:19 +0000

[...] watch this screencast from the apple [...]

By: Jono

Jono — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 07:06:20 +0000

Thanks, http://www.theappleblog.com/wp-content/uploads/Quicksilvertunes.mov did the trick.

By: Colin

Colin — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 03:00:04 +0000

In the URL bar find the tag “file=” and delete that and everything before it. Then at the (now beginning) of the bar replace %3A with a “:” and that make the link work. =)

By: Jono

Jono — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 08:15:35 +0000

Yea, any chance of fixing the link?

By: Eric Nadler

Eric Nadler — Thu, 17 May 2007 20:10:58 +0000

The video link is broken.

By: Learn Quicksilver with video tutorials! on The uber geeks

Learn Quicksilver with video tutorials! on The uber geeks — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 01:03:31 +0000

[...] How to create iTunes playlists from Quicksilver. [...]

By: Resistance is Futile » QueryTunes: QuickSilver+iTunes geekery

Resistance is Futile » QueryTunes: QuickSilver+iTunes geekery — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:28:41 +0000

[...] otro día vi un gran screencast en esta entrada de The Apple Blog, mostrando dos scripts para combinar Quicksiilver e iTunes, TuneTag y QueryTunes, [...]

By: david rudolph

david rudolph — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 03:14:23 +0000

could someone break down how to set up growl for itunes notifications ive installed notification hub + growl but cant get it to show up… I can get quicksilvers, fast user switching style notifications to work but not growls… Thanks

By: RazorSharp iPods & Raw Gadgets » Blog Archive » Metadata in OS X: Part Two

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 23:37:51 +0000

[...] Tagging your songs in iTunes - check out the screencast [...]

By: 2nd metadata post at The Apple Blog

2nd metadata post at The Apple Blog — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:32:36 +0000

[...] Tagging your songs in iTunes - check out the screencast [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 05:02:38 +0000

Nah, no worries. Limitations are limitations, and developers just have to work with the framework we’re given. Maybe with Leopard this functionality will appear; you never know. But many thanks for the props, regardless.

By: Nick Santilli

Nick Santilli — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 01:14:26 +0000

Ed - It’s just Growl, with the Music Video style being used.

Chris - thanks for tunetag! I love the options it gives me - hope I didn’t come off as annoyed with the lack of smart playlist out-of-the-box functionality. I just wanted to make it clear to people what they were getting with this.

And yeah, I should’ve made that point, but it was late and I wasn’t thinking… You absolutely can create a smart playlist that looks for the comment that you add as a tag, and it’ll update for you. Note that the tag is prepended with a *, so it would look like *bboys, if I follow the screencast’s example.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:48:09 +0000

Author of TuneTag here. Great screencast! One thing that people are curious about (and you mentioned in the cast) is the downside of there being no Smart Playlist creation - AppleScript actually doesn’t support the creation of Smart Playlists, just regular ones. Sucks, I know. You could always create your own, I would wager, through iTunes itself that scanned the “Comments” field (where these tags are stored). But for now, we’re stuck with regular ol’ playlists. Damn.

‘Course, if I’m missing something, I’ll be glad to put it in. Not sure if any recent iTunes releases have added the capability.

By: Xander

Xander — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:07:54 +0000

I really look forward to these screencasts. Lots of great information and tips for probably the most useful, malleable and time saving utility ever.

And wow, Abracadabr - Gestures is fantastic!

By: Colin

Colin — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:06:39 +0000

I know very little about Applescript, so I can’t tell if they are adding comments to the song’s “comment” field or if they are just performing a search. If they did the former, it should be possible to set up a Smart Playlist that would search for the tags entered (or if someone were really ambitious, would search for the tags in the comments field, artist in the artist field, etc.). Any Applescript gurus out there that want to write something like that?

By: Runar

Runar — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:43:19 +0000

I love the abbrevation (or something) funtion.
I have set small nonsens words as launchers for often used commands in QS.
Like the rating scripts.
It goes like this:
Invoke QS -> type:set rating to 5 -> tab -> type: Assign abbrevation -> tab -> type:r5
Or choose a nother short word.
I do this for alle the rating scripts, and presto. quick rating by keyboard.

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:36:57 +0000

Nice video, thanks! Can I please ask what you use for your iTunes track notification? Looks really nice!

By: Nick Santilli

Nick Santilli — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:50:49 +0000

No, sorry Alex, it’s not a Video Podcast or anything like that. It’s just a regular article posted with a link to the video file. Sorry for the confusion.
But who knows, maybe Josh will look into doing it that way in the future…

Oh, and it looks like you combined TAB and TUAW. We’re the former.

By: Alex Shultz

Alex Shultz — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:26:18 +0000

I feel really stupid because I cannot figure out where to get the feed for this screencast. Is there a screencast-only feed or do I have to subscribe to the full TUAB feed? I would like to just get these things directly in iTunes. Am I being thrown off by the the “cast” in screencast and there is no feed for it?

By: Nick Santilli

Nick Santilli — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 19:14:01 +0000

Adam - good researching! You’re absolutely right - I was using the Abracadabr plugin for Quicksilver. Hmmm, maybe a screencast on that is in need, eh?

By: Michael DiSefano

Michael DiSefano — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:58:10 +0000

I was just about to ask the same thing, Adam, you beat me to it.

By: Adam Turetzky

Adam Turetzky — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:16:18 +0000

Nevermind. I think I figured it out.

Abracadabr-Gestures for Quicksilver

By: Adam Turetzky

Adam Turetzky — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:03:03 +0000

I feel bad being the first comment and it’s purely esthetic, but it appeared you used some type of mouse gesture to start your itunes playing and pixie dust fell out of your cursor. That was pretty neat, what do you use to do that? I searched around for some OS X gesture apps, but the first couple of hits don’t seem to do that.

Oh, and thanks for doing these screencasts. They’re awesome.