Andy Chase

I love OS X, iTunes, Google and the internet.

Now that I'm getting back into the swing of maintaining a web site, I've been thinking about all the little enhancements I can make to my templates. One feature that I lamely tried to implement on my original weblog way back when was an "What I'm listening to" sidebar, complete with thumbnail and Amazon affiliate link. The only problem was, I had to update it manually.

I suspected it would be possible to automate such a feature thanks to iTunes and AppleScript, and Google just proved me right:

Now Playing in iTunes

While it would have been fun to stumble my way through such a project, I'm glad other people have laid much of the groundwork ahead of me, and generously made their knowledge available on the web.