| Hi Alastair,
I’m sorry I never got back to you on this. I suppose life took over..!
I am now trying again to get this working. I exported a playlist from iTunes and the composer field is included. If you have time, I wonder if you would be able to send a sample file that I could use to work on my composition?
I am attaching the version I was using before, back in the days of being able to launch iTunes in 32 bit mode, in order to use iVisualize, in case this is helpful.
With Best Wishes,
Nick
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Nick Slideshow.qtz
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HI Nick
CSV plugin:
Text file importer plugin: Kineme File Tools
Also CoGe makes one a text importer but it segments the structure by spaces which would mean you'd have to text process your files.
I started making the comp for you but then noticed that the iTunes Playlist Export file doesn't contain composer only artist, album and file-path (containing title).
So you are going to have to find so way to get the composer field out of iTunes. I don't know how to do that, sorry. If you can get an XML file of your library then you could parse that for composer and title in a text processing program (I use InDesign with GREP commands or Text Wrangler with GREP commands).
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On 03/11/2013, at 6:01 PM, Alastair Leith wrote: Yes a CSV or a plain text file using the import text file patch. Not sure if that is a stock patch but cvs is definitely not stock. Will post when in front of my mac. Someone might beat me too it. Dead easy when you know how :-) Best Alastair Alastair I Leith Useful Design 0432 889 821 03 9480 5506 30 Birch Street West Preston VIC 3072 .AU On 3 Nov 2013, at 11:11 am, nick <nickharam...@me.com> wrote:
Hi Alastair,
Thanks for your message. I can get the title, artist, album and duration using the Track info patch. I was hoping that somehow the patch could be edited to pull the composer field too, but perhaps this isn’t something that is editable. If so, your solution may be the best I can hope for.
If I have understood you correctly I need a CSV file with a line for each track in my iTunes library, and then there would be a way of finding a match based on the fields in the track info patch - based on this match I could return the composer field. Do you have an example of a composition that does something like this, as I may struggle to put this together without an example?
Best Wishes,
Nick
On 2 Nov 2013, at 23:45, Alastair Leith <usefuldesign...@gmail.com> wrote:
It's ages since I looked at the Track info patch so can help with that. However if you can get the track title
still how about making a look up table in excel or a DB and importing it as a CSV (free plugin available but I'm on my phone so can't link) or as text file and use the strong components patch to make a structure. You can perform a search on a structure in QC inside an iterative patch and then publish the hit/constructed filepath.
Best
Alastair
Alastair I Leith
Useful Design
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VIC 3072 .AU
On 3 Nov 2013, at 6:11 am, nick <nickharam...@me.com> wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to redo a QC composition that I have been using with iVisualize. As iVisualize is not being developed anymore and only runs with iTunes in 32 bit mode, which has been discontinued in Mavericks, I need to find another way.
I am having some success with a Music Visualizer composition, but can’t do what I need with the information that is included in the Track Info Input. With iVisualize I could use the information in the ‘Composer’ field in iTunes, but this doesn’t appear to be included in the Track Info Input.
Essentially I need the composition to look for images in the folder of the currently playing song in iTunes. I have my Music folder set up as follows.
Single artist albums are in the structure - Album Artist/Album
Compilations - Compilations/Album
What I did with the iVisualize composition is that I copied the text from the Album Artist or ‘Compilations’ fields in iTunes to the Composer field, and then in the QC compilation I could use the Composer and Album fields to build the URL string used by the Directory Scanner Patch.
Without being able to access the Composer field though, or another field, such as ‘Grouping’, I can’t see what I can do to get the composition working.
I’d be glad of any help.
Thanks,
Nick
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