I’m having the same problems that Tom and Wolf are having; it looks as though iTunes 8 has broken the script in places. Track Parser is sooooo useful….I’d be eternally grateful if you could update the script sometime!

Many thanks for a wonderful tool,

Steve

I’ve checked and rechecked, but since iTunes v8.x Track Parser is not working anymore. The entry at Dougs AppleScripts hasn’t been updated since 01/2005 so I came here again to see if there’s any news about an upgrade or a workaround / fix.
I wasn’t really expecting something, since I myself would probably not be updating a script this old. But then, this things is indispensable for me – and maybe for somebody else too.
Any way you could be persuaded to have a look at it? AppleScript is still AS. iTunes has maybe modified some parameter or what that has the script falling over. Maybe even easy to fix. And it would make me happy. Very much so. :-)

I’m wondering if the substitute (album) pattern quit working because of recent iTunes changes? Maybe “album” is name somehting internally now?

I’m trying to parse the Disc number from the album track (for an 18 CD set, but I get the following error:

Can’t get every item of “l”.

I saw note of an open source Track Parser, but can’t find it to see if the “l” needs to refer to a new element in recent iTunes…

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Yes this is (still) very useful software.

Tom

– Steve

In the first case, today I figured out the problem, and have discovered what may be a bug in the script. I can describe the whole thing in detail if you contact me.

In the second case, track parser mostly focuses on taking hunks of information that have been glommed together into track names and parsing up and out to their proper fields. In my case, I actually want to add some of those fields back *in* to the track name; is that possible? Specifically, I want to add the “album name” at the beginning of the track name, separate by a comma. This is because what I am actually working with are chapters from an audio book, and the way that the iPod presents audiobooks is slightly different from the way it presents music.

I do have a question about the “Parser (Clipboard)” script. Is there a way to remove a saved pattern from the main menu?

Thanks,
Jose

Thanks for sharing Track Parser with us. In the last two years it silently replaced almost all other plugins I used to straighten out track information.
And thanks for giving it out as source code; by looking at it’s innards I even learned something about AppleScript, which still eludes me most of the time, though.

Thanks. Thanks very much!

Cheers from Germany.

cheers,
matt