Comments on: Recent Tunes Update http://www.command-tab.com/2005/04/30/recent-tunes-update/ Technology and Mac geekery. One part exuberance, two parts obsession. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:50:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: akatsuki http://www.command-tab.com/2005/04/30/recent-tunes-update/#comment-2106 akatsuki Sat, 29 Oct 2005 05:39:58 +0000 http://www.command-tab.com/index.php/recent-tunes-update/#comment-2106 I've been working on getting the old Recent Tunes to work also, I just locked the preference file so that it can't add the songs to it and that seems mostly to work except that when it sends the GET request, it fails to append the arguments and instead console just shows the URL with a (null) attribute. However, it appears a new version is on the way: http://don.yacktman.org/blog/archives/2005/10/05/recent-tunes I’ve been working on getting the old Recent Tunes to work also, I just locked the preference file so that it can’t add the songs to it and that seems mostly to work except that when it sends the GET request, it fails to append the arguments and instead console just shows the URL with a (null) attribute.

However, it appears a new version is on the way:
http://don.yacktman.org/blog/archives/2005/10/05/recent-tunes

]]> By: dDub http://www.command-tab.com/2005/04/30/recent-tunes-update/#comment-479 dDub Wed, 20 Jul 2005 04:58:08 +0000 http://www.command-tab.com/index.php/recent-tunes-update/#comment-479 Hey Nate, thanks for the headsup on OnDeck. I'll have to give it a look. As for Recent Tunes, I've come accross a temporary workaround that has been working for me. For those interested : Quit Recent Tunes from the menu bar Open up Apples "Property List Editor." (you must have Apples Developers Tools installed - <a href="http://developer.apple.com/" rel="nofollow">Link for more info</a>) In Property List Editor open up the Recent Tunes pref file, com.freshsqueeze.recenttunes.plist , located in your home pref folder. once open, look for "RT2.0SongList". This is an Array. Click the drop down triang;e to expand this array and notice the "Dictionary" entries which are listed as 0,1,2,3 ... etc DELETE all of these "dictionary" sub-elements. Quit Property List Editor and Re-Launch Recent Tunes Start Pumping some iTune's and hopefully you're good to go! This has worked for me now numerous times no for me, so hope fully it will for others. I've also noted in my experimenting that the failure of Recent Tunes seems to occur after the App itself has been Quit. I;ve Also noted that the here forementioned preference file is only written to (ie new tracks written to file) after Recent Tunes quiting... Hey Nate, thanks for the headsup on OnDeck. I’ll have to give it a look.

As for Recent Tunes, I’ve come accross a temporary workaround that has been working for me.
For those interested :

Quit Recent Tunes from the menu bar
Open up Apples “Property List Editor.” (you must have Apples Developers Tools installed - Link for more info)
In Property List Editor open up the Recent Tunes pref file, com.freshsqueeze.recenttunes.plist , located in your home pref folder.
once open, look for “RT2.0SongList”. This is an Array. Click the drop down triang;e to expand this array and notice the “Dictionary” entries which are listed as 0,1,2,3 … etc
DELETE all of these “dictionary” sub-elements.
Quit Property List Editor and Re-Launch Recent Tunes
Start Pumping some iTune’s and hopefully you’re good to go!

This has worked for me now numerous times no for me, so hope fully it will for others. I’ve also noted in my experimenting that the failure of Recent Tunes seems to occur after the App itself has been Quit. I;ve Also noted that the here forementioned preference file is only written to (ie new tracks written to file) after Recent Tunes quiting…

]]> By: Nate http://www.command-tab.com/2005/04/30/recent-tunes-update/#comment-454 Nate Thu, 14 Jul 2005 17:36:51 +0000 http://www.command-tab.com/index.php/recent-tunes-update/#comment-454 OnDeck is another utility for uploading song information--it goes beyond this by uploading artwork as well. Unfortunately, it also seems to be buggy in Tiger. I've gotten the image upload to work, but not the track listings: http://holocore.com/?OnDeck OnDeck is another utility for uploading song information–it goes beyond this by uploading artwork as well. Unfortunately, it also seems to be buggy in Tiger. I’ve gotten the image upload to work, but not the track listings: http://holocore.com/?OnDeck

]]> By: dDub http://www.command-tab.com/2005/04/30/recent-tunes-update/#comment-452 dDub Wed, 13 Jul 2005 03:52:45 +0000 http://www.command-tab.com/index.php/recent-tunes-update/#comment-452 my bad on the last post, it is "System.log" you should look at in the "Console.app"(and sorry for the grammatical errors as this is a small box to edit in). my bad on the last post, it is “System.log” you should look at in the “Console.app”(and sorry for the grammatical errors as this is a small box to edit in).

]]> By: dDub http://www.command-tab.com/2005/04/30/recent-tunes-update/#comment-451 dDub Wed, 13 Jul 2005 03:50:48 +0000 http://www.command-tab.com/index.php/recent-tunes-update/#comment-451 yea so... if y'all have'nt figured it out now... : it seems that after ~20 or so listings by iTunes in Recent Tunes, it stop updating the track list as well as updating to your webserv, whatever method it may be. take a look at your system.log in "Console.app"; you're probably going to see a message similar to: "2005-07-12 23:37:40.215 Recent Tunes[12212] *** NSTimer discarding exception '*** -[NSCFArray addObject:]: mutating method sent to immutable object' that raised during firing of timer with target 311320 and selector 'checkCurrentTrackID". I'm not all that familiar with Mac OsX programming laguages, but it appears that "NSTimer" has disregarded the "NSCFArray addObject" as it is an "immutable object". *shrug*. Hope this helps someone to fix, or at least explains to some why Recent Tunes is not working in Tiger. yea so… if y’all have’nt figured it out now… :

it seems that after ~20 or so listings by iTunes in Recent Tunes, it stop updating the track list as well as updating to your webserv, whatever method it may be.

take a look at your system.log in “Console.app”; you’re probably going to see a message similar to:

“2005-07-12 23:37:40.215 Recent Tunes[12212] *** NSTimer discarding exception ‘*** -[NSCFArray addObject:]: mutating method sent to immutable object’ that raised during firing of timer with target 311320 and selector ‘checkCurrentTrackID”.

I’m not all that familiar with Mac OsX programming laguages, but it appears that “NSTimer” has disregarded the “NSCFArray addObject” as it is an “immutable object”. *shrug*.

Hope this helps someone to fix, or at least explains to some why Recent Tunes is not working in Tiger.

]]> By: Tino http://www.command-tab.com/2005/04/30/recent-tunes-update/#comment-404 Tino Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:17:30 +0000 http://www.command-tab.com/index.php/recent-tunes-update/#comment-404 Thank you. It works again :) Thank you. It works again :)

]]> By: Aaron http://www.command-tab.com/2005/04/30/recent-tunes-update/#comment-367 Aaron Wed, 08 Jun 2005 22:31:48 +0000 http://www.command-tab.com/index.php/recent-tunes-update/#comment-367 Tino Users/your username/Library/Preferences/com.freshsqueeze.recenttunes.plist delete that.. make sure you save your settings first so you can reenter them in without a hassle of remembering what you exactly had... =) Interesting note.. Mine "just stopped" working now... not sure.. i bet if i delete preferences again and restart it it will work... but not sure what triggered it to just stop recognizing what itunes was playing again.. hmmmm... i hope they fix these tiger bugs... Tino

Users/your username/Library/Preferences/com.freshsqueeze.recenttunes.plist

delete that.. make sure you save your settings first so you can reenter them in without a hassle of remembering what you exactly had… =)

Interesting note.. Mine “just stopped” working now… not sure.. i bet if i delete preferences again and restart it it will work… but not sure what triggered it to just stop recognizing what itunes was playing again.. hmmmm… i hope they fix these tiger bugs…

]]> By: Tino http://www.command-tab.com/2005/04/30/recent-tunes-update/#comment-345 Tino Sat, 04 Jun 2005 11:37:43 +0000 http://www.command-tab.com/index.php/recent-tunes-update/#comment-345 Hey guys! I really loved recent tunes too. I updated to tiger and tada, it doesn't work anymore. Where can i find the prefs to delete? Spotlight failed to find it… very surprising oO Hey guys! I really loved recent tunes too. I updated to tiger and tada, it doesn’t work anymore. Where can i find the prefs to delete? Spotlight failed to find it… very surprising oO

]]> By: Jed Wood http://www.command-tab.com/2005/04/30/recent-tunes-update/#comment-343 Jed Wood Fri, 03 Jun 2005 07:50:01 +0000 http://www.command-tab.com/index.php/recent-tunes-update/#comment-343 OKay, I got it writing files, but still no luck with the HTTP GET, which would be much better since the URL I'm calling grabs Amazon images and all that. Thanks OKay, I got it writing files, but still no luck with the HTTP GET, which would be much better since the URL I’m calling grabs Amazon images and all that.

Thanks

]]> By: Jed Wood http://www.command-tab.com/2005/04/30/recent-tunes-update/#comment-342 Jed Wood Fri, 03 Jun 2005 07:36:36 +0000 http://www.command-tab.com/index.php/recent-tunes-update/#comment-342 Okay, I feel like I'm SO close to getting this to work- but RecentTunes either: a.) makes blank files when I try to use FTP (both in local directory and up on server- though it IS actually FTPing the blank file). OR b.) just doesn't seem to connect if I use the HTTP GET. I can see the proper URL in the console- even copy and paste that in my browser and it works right- but it just isn't calling it on its own. I'm using WordPress. Any ideas anyone? Thanks Okay, I feel like I’m SO close to getting this to work- but RecentTunes either:

a.) makes blank files when I try to use FTP (both in local directory and up on server- though it IS actually FTPing the blank file).

OR

b.) just doesn’t seem to connect if I use the HTTP GET. I can see the proper URL in the console- even copy and paste that in my browser and it works right- but it just isn’t calling it on its own. I’m using WordPress. Any ideas anyone?

Thanks

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