OK, thanks guys. My script is pretty simple-minded: it just retrieves each track in turn and compares the artist and title with what I am looking for. We're way off-topic now, but is there a better way? I'm trying to avoid adding the same track to the library twice. Thanks.
Paul Sanders. Sorry Jens, meant to post that to the list, not to you privately. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jens Alfke" <j...@mooseyard.com> To: "Matt Neuburg" <m...@tidbits.com> Cc: "Paul Sanders" <p.sand...@alpinesoft.co.uk>; "Ramesh P" <ramesh.pauldu...@gmail.com>; <cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 6:51 PM Subject: Re: How to access iTunes using cocoa On Jan 26, 2010, at 10:17 AM, Matt Neuburg wrote: > NSAppleScript is your slowest > choice because it slows way down as you loop and access memory > (such > as > lists). Scripting Bridge and objc-appscript do all the heavy > lifting > in > Objective-C and just throw Apple events at the target, so they > are > inherently much faster, and your bottlenecks are then your > choice of > Apple > event and how long the target takes to process each Apple > event. AppleScript isn't fast, but you'd have to scale up to much, much larger data sets to see a real slowdown. I've done a fair bit of iTunes scripting using [NS]AppleScript, and when the scripts have run slowly, it's always been iTunes itself at fault. (Its AE object resolution support is pretty naively written and doesn't implement any of the fast-querying shortcuts, instead just doing linear searches over the whole library.) So it wouldn't matter what technology you used to send the events, because all the time is spent waiting for iTunes to send a reply. —Jens _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
