Hi,
I'm working on an app based on the ITLibrary so I can get all the tracks info like their persistent ID and I'd like to play it in Music from my app.
I do it easily with AppleScript so do I need to use a bridge or can I do it directly from a Swift 4 app ?
Thx.
can I do it directly from a Swift 4 app ?
macOS has two ‘iTunes library’ APIs:
Both are available from Swift.
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Yes I know about iTunes Library Framework because I spoke about it with the ITLibrary.
But like I said, we can't control the Music / iTunes app, only get its infos :
My question is about how to play a track in the Music / iTunes app from another app ?
Thx.
You will need to use Apple event IPC to control Music.app. Options:
• ScriptingBridge.framework – defective by design and effectively unsupported and abandoned; usually mostly works for trivial stuff, but breaks on a lot of tasks that work perfectly in AppleScript and generally not worth wasting time on
• AppleScript-ObjC bridge – allows you to wrap your AppleScript handlers as NSObject subclasses and call them directly from your Swift/ObjC code. Bridging numerical types is a little fiddly (you have to use NSNumber, not Bool/Int/Double primitives) and block-based APIs are unsupported, but this is by far the least awful option and the one I recommend. Example project here: github.com/hhas/Swift-AppleScriptObjC
(There is also SwiftAutomation, which unlike Apple’s ScriptingBridge actually works right, but I haven’t used or maintained it in ages and don’t provide any support so for the recklessly brave only.)