This is old, I know. I am going through my old mail from when I first
got my Mac an didn't understand the coolness of it like I do now. I
tried this script out and it works great! Maybe it can be useful to
someone else. I didn't check his public folder, instead I got it from
his Web site. There are some other goodies there as well.
On Feb 5, 2008, at 2:12 PM, Esther wrote:
Hi Orin and others,
Hi Orin,
I have a new solution to your question below:
Orin asked: Just wondering how to jump to a certain time in
ITunes? I
was listening to something, I whent to rewind it, and it started at
the beginning again.
TK: With the help of Esther and the good folks at DougScripts, I
have
modified a script that will do just what you're asking. The script
is
called "RestartAt", it will bring up a dialog with an Edit field
where
you type where you'd like to start the given iTunes selection. It
will handle hours:minutes:seconds. You can pick it up from my Public
folder of my iDisk by doing the following:
• Go to your Finder.
• Go to the Go menu.
• Go down to iDisk.
• Go right and down to Other Users Public Folder.
• Type in kilburns.
• It is in the iTunes Scripts folder.
Copy this into your /Library/iTunes/Scripts folder. If you don't
have
a Scripts folder in that location, just make one and name it Scripts.
Once the RestartAt script is in that folder, you can navigate along
your menus in iTunes until right after the Window menu. VO will
reach
a menu that it doesn't announce, press your down arrow and the
RestartAt script will be available. There are ways of attaching a
key
combination to it as well but I won't go into that here. Hope I
haven't forgot anything.
you can also pick up the script from
http://homepage.mac.com/kilburns/voiceover/downloads.html
Just a followup suggestion to Tim's post about the RestartAt
AppleScript you can get from his web site: it's easiest to use if you
bind this to a shortcut key. You can do this when iTunes is not
running by navigating to Systems Preferences in the Menu Bar
(VO-keys+m to go to the menu bar; VO-keys down arrow to System
Preferences) then use item chooser (VO-keys+i) to go to the Keyboard &
Mouse menu by typing "Key", selecting Keyboard & Mouse with VO-keys+
spacebar, then using VO-keys+spacebar again to press the selected icon
and actually go to that menu. Use item chooser again and type
"Shortcuts" to get the entry for the Keyboard Shortcuts tab.
VO-keys+spacebar to select this tab, and VO-keys+ spacebar to press
the tab and go there. VO-keys+ right arrow twice to the plus sign.
(VO-keys+h gives "Click to define shortcuts within applications.)
VO-keys+spacebar to press so you can add a new keyboard shortcut
definition. In the window that opens up you'll hear "Applications".
VO-keys right arrow to the "All Applications" popup button. VO-keys+
spacebar to press the button and VO-keys+down arrow to iTunes and
carriage return to select. VO-keys+right arrow to "Menu Title" and
VO-keys+right arrow again to the blank text field. Type in the name
of the AppleScript, "RestartAt". VO-keys+right arrow twice more to
"Keyboard Shortcut" then VO-keys+right arrow to the blank text field
and type in the shortcut keys you want to use. For example, I type in
Command+Option+R here. You can VO-keys+right arrow to the cancel and
add buttons, but I typically just carriage return after entering my
shortcut. Close the Keyboard & Mouse window with Command-W.
Now, if you start iTunes, you can select a track in your Songs outline
and type Command+Option+R. A window will pop up and you'll be told the
start and end times for the track. You can VO-keys+right arrow to
enter
your time in the text field. The default time entry will be the
current
play position.
HTH.
Cheers,
Esther
