This actually CONTROLS iTunes from Adium? Can we get a little more information before downloading?

How do we control it?

Ahh I figured it out. You have to download it and it explains how to use it. Sorta glitchy. Messes up my chat.

How so? It's supposed to leave those little spaces if thats that you're talking about...:-D Couldn't figure out how to get rid of them...

Above problems were from an Earlier version, so feel free to download and try it :-D

Impressive and very handy!

(the "ok" and "cancel" buttons do the same thing when viewing iTunes and System commands -it's no big deal at all, and you don't really need to change it... I'm mostly just wondering why there are two buttons)

Actually there are 2 buttons because in the code I specified the dialog box without specifying how many buttons/what they should say. So they put in default lol For example:

I have:

set help_msg to "help"
display dialog help

instead of

set help_msg to "help"
diasplay dialog help buttons {"OK"} Default button 1

For some reason it didn't want to compile with the bottom code...so I just used the top one. :-D

Whats the preview theme?

Wow i love the Message Style, what's its name?

Preview theme is Negative

btw it pwns all other msg styles..lol

Yeah, uh... once you put the randomize song command in, it doesn't seem to ever turn off... any reason why?

ahahaha. never mind. i fixed it.

Lol..no worries... :)

pretty nifty, but satin owns negative :p

oh so collld.....i use eclipse i think..the transparent one, that works on any background..lol

This doesn't work in .7 beta 3 yet, theres an error in adium to where it doens't handle display dialogs correctly. Sorry. the announcers still work however.

OK, update for .7 approved :) enjoy basic functionality! lol I'll get this working for .70 completely hopefully in 3.6....

Ok new version out, please read the read me for complete update info...enjoy!

.70 owns.

sorry,, but you have all the rights to spam.. but still there is no message of how to..

have downloaded it... but do be a failure..

What?

This is awesome!! I really like announce 2. For my away message I have--
"/a2
(what im listening to right now)"

Awesome :) Thanks man! ...don't forget you can build your own announcer ;)

can i have it respond to commands from my contacts?

Not possible with adium....yet :) They're working on that.

I'm going to throw out another version changing the script code to /aitc, because I've been having some issues with links with /x in them, such as http://xbox.com, and the like.

Ok, updated. /x is no more. Enjoy!

Great, great idea. I didn't think it would actually be useful, just kinda neat, but it's definitely actually effective. My main gripe is with something you may not be able to control, which is pause. I have not yet found a way to have iTunes purely pause except by the dock icon. If you play a song and then switch playlists, all "pauses" turn into stops. Perhaps add a "/pause" command that does a true pause?

Perhaps I should add that I don't expect to ever use any commands that require opening a new dialog with "/aitc" because that's just too much effort!

type /play while it's playing. It pasues it. lol and /aitc and entering pause works too, but you're too lazy for that!! lol thanks for the comments :)

It pauses as long as you stay in the same playlist. It's really the same as clicking the big button. If you play from your library, then click on a different playlist and type /play it will actually stop instead of pause. The /aitc with a comma works because if you type /play after that it plays the same song no matter what.

Allright I'll fix that in the next update for you :) 3.8 coming soon

Great! And what about the song's names in the Alias? Is there a way to display it?

Not sure, you can try. I don't think it'll work though.

Awesome change. I can't imagine ever switching to iChat if there's a community this tight here.

:) It's all good.

Maybe I'm an idiot, but the countp and pinfo things dont work for me when I use the them in a chat(i.e. Like showing my friend how many songs are in my library)

countp is no longer in effect, for pinfo it's now /pinfo{playlistname}

for example...

/pinfo{Library}

will return info about your playlist named "Library"...it's NOT case sensitive. Hope that helps, if you need any more help, go ahead and IM me. :)

Ahh thanks I didnt put it in the ()'s

:) np man and thanks

excellent.

but how come it stops working after awhile?
I tried using /a1-/a8 and all different commands..not working. and I have /a8 on my away message

or am I not suppose to put away on mute and disable event notification??

never mind about the previous comment about not working ::blushing:: my bad. i just found out why.

No worries, sorry I didn't reply faster lol :)

Great , the only thing i didnt like was it jumps to the main adium window after a command

Ok I feel really stupid. I completely don't get how this works. Can some one explain and show me how to work it pleasies?

Download Adium (for mac os x only) at http://adiumx.com and then download this and install it (double click the files) Type one of the commands into your message field (/play, /next, /back, /random, /stop, etc.)

or type /aitc for the main script and enter the command there. (you can view help for the commands)

So is there a commane that shows other buddies what song you are currently listening to?

Theres 9. (/a1, /a2, /a3, /a4, /a5, /a6, /a7, /a8, /a0)

And /a0 chooses a random announcer from about 20, I believe.

Can you control cue/review?
Like in iTunes when you hit Cmnd/opt/Right arrow and it skips forward 5 secs.
This would be a great app for me if it could.

I'll see what I can do... :)

I don't get it at all. Sorry. Where is the "controller"? What makes typing scripts easier than controlling iTunes in the traditional way with a click or two?

...and when I finally found the scripts in the menu bar, they were greyed out...

When using /aitc, then executing "Help", selecting "iTunes", the help window will appear showing some things that according to this are already outdated (and won't work).
And if I press "Cancel" on that screen, I'll get another Info dialog that can't be closed and is blocking that I have to go the hard way terminating Adium.

I don't get it at all. Sorry. Where is the "controller"? What makes typing scripts easier than controlling iTunes in the traditional way with a click or two?

I updated the binary again. As for the scripts being grayed out, I don't have this problem. However I do have the problem with the Help in the iTunes commands. Those commands are not outdated...and I'm not sure how to fix this problem, other than pressing "OK" instead. I used a default dialog, meaning I didn't specify buttons (because it wouldn't let me) and therefore I cannot edit it to remove cancel, etc.

nice icon...could it be made into a dock icon? :D

Yeah maybe...IF anyone had some Ideas about the animation, etc. :)

um... why not just run you control:tunes from yousoftware.com? sits in my menu bar, access to my entire library, full control, no crashes, no text input, don't have to be in adium, and it rocks... too glitchy, i'm sure it will get better...

- scratching for connecting
- waving hands when new message is received
...any ideas for the rest?

http://adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=xtr...tra_id=1236

???

I adore this program. Really adore it. I only really use it to skip songs or artists but its a lot more convinient then opening a program and going through it to switch songs. I don't get some of the controls or they don't work when I type them into my chat box on adium. =? Awesome nevertheless.

Which controls? Some of them only work if you type them in the box that pops up with /aitc. The ones without "/"'s in the command list, that is.

When I double click the script to install it I get this error message: "Could not run the script "applet" because of a program error." I don't know why I got this message and I am really bummed because this script looked very cool. :(

I'll fix that for you man. (I'll see if I can include the files with it, so you can manually install of all else fails.)

Allright, I ditched the installer, so you chould be able to just select all the files and double click one of them to install. Sorry for the trouble. (and sorry to those who e-mailed me as well)

I can't seem to find where to get the interface to come up. I have installed the scripts as specified in the installation documentation and restarted adium. Where am I going wrong?

You're not typing /aitc ?

Well... i just found a glitch, but i don't know if it does it for everyone.

When i press 'cancel' instead of 'okay,' the window goes away then comes back right away but i can't move it or press any buttons anymore. I had to force quit to get rid of them.

That's a glitch in Adium.

is Reikon there?

How do I use the build announcer feature?

It's described in the Read Me.

No shit, ownage :D! 5 ducks for sure.

i don't really see the use for this script, why not just use like icontrol or something that can be accesible fomr the finder?
im confused

Don't you think /p would be easier for play/pause? Something that would be nice to implement in the script definately.


I love this script, so handy!

It would be considered. But using /p would cause all other scripts that began with /p to not work. Such as /pinfo, etc. Last I checked anyway.

I admit that I never use the /aitc functions, but I happily use /music as my away message to make everyone ask what program I'm using. I also occasionally use /pause and /play. The thing is, I use iTunes as its "controller" (press the green button) and can click all the buttons without switching apps.

OK I was just checking competition in using /pinfo ;)
Something weird: for /pinfo I get:
[ Pink Floyd ] [ 152 songs ] [ 16:03:00 total time ] [ 1.29 GB ]
While with /tinfo I get:
02 days 10 hours 07 minutes 43 seconds

Good luck in fixing that!

It is not incorrect. /tinfo returns the time you've spent listening to the music. Not how much time the music takes up total. You've spent 2 days, 10 hours worth listening to pink floyd.

Wow, that’s cool… I finally get what it does ;)
And you should rename your scripts .AdiumScripts to avoid any mishaps caused on Case Sensitive HFS+.

Allrighty. I'll remember to do that in the next update. Thanks :)

At times the "/g2s{song}" command stops working after a little while, is that my own fault, or do I need to enter something else? Thank you.

If it stops working, try /play then /g2s{song} or /g2p{playlistname} then /g2s{song}

I downloaded it/installed it, but i don't know how to get the control - box to open up so I can type in the command for the itunes.
Thanks you.

I got this because I don't like having to go back to iTunes to pause or change songs. Playing, pausing, and next song work fine for me. However, I don't see what's on your screenshot (I don't get an "enter command" box)...running /aitc does nothing for me. Also, most of the commands (e.g. a2) will start a creepy, slow computer voice talking to me (it's too slow for me to deciper what it's saying)...and will only shut off if I quit Adium. Do you know what's going on?

I just don't get it
call me a noob whatever command I give in my chat window it doens't do shit
allthough I knwo I installed it properly

I thought it sounded like I could control my other computer on my networks Itunes from this script? Example: I use my laptop but have my mac mini hooked to tv and radio, and would like not to have to screen share to control the itunes running off the mac mini which is sharing the library on my macbook.

ThankS!

Great Script!