[WS] iTunes, web sources script Options

[leigh]

Can you post your script version or send it to me? It's much easier to find the problem when i can use it and read the debug file.

thanks i have uploaded what i have so far. it really is just a case of using this great script and changing a few fields round to maybe try and apply it to a different media type.

as i say i'm a complete amateur so maybe going about this the wrong way.

Attached File(s)

 iTunes42.src ( 2.28K ) Number of downloads: 132

 

[pone]

thanks i have uploaded what i have so far. it really is just a case of using this great script and changing a few fields round to maybe try and apply it to a different media type.

as i say i'm a complete amateur so maybe going about this the wrong way.

Good work on the script!

Use:
replace "\\\"" """
or
replace "\\\"" "\\u0022"
That works perfectly.

I must confess that i don't know why I have included the replace "\\\"" "\"" line in the index part of my script. It doesn't seem to help anything. I did a few tests about quotationmarks but had the impression that itunes doesn't have this character in ther music database. They use only single quotes there, which avoids the problem.

[DetlevD]

... I must confess that i don't know why I have included ...

I don't want to bother you, pone, but there has been coming up a question to me about apple search entities ... in their API manual I do not find an entitiy called "album", so how can you use "album" successfully in your script?

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[pone]

I don't want to bother you, pone, but there has been coming up a question to me about apple search entities ... in their API manual I do not find an entitiy called "album", so how can you use "album" successfully in your script?

DD.20120608.1532.CEST

It is there. Just look again:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/res....html#searching
In the table there at entity, the following values are listed under music:
musicArtist, musicTrack, album, musicVideo, mix, song

[DetlevD]

It is there. Just look again: ... In the table there at entity, the following values are listed under music: musicArtist, musicTrack, album, musicVideo, mix, song

'pone' I beg your pardon ... now I see it too! Thank you.

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[leigh]

oh wow that's it! superb that's been bugging me for a few days. i've been searching for a way to get the itunes meta onto the mp4's to show under the apple tv.

such a shame the lookup data doesn't seem to include cast, screenwriter or producer fields, only in the html. nevermind tho this will do nicely!

many thanks for your help with that and thanks again for your excellent script!

[poster]

Hi pone,
this is found in the iTunes store. Therefore I wanted it to tag with your srcipt but the script can't find it.
iTunes

[pone]

Hi pone,
this is found in the iTunes store. Therefore I wanted it to tag with your srcipt but the script can't find it.
iTunes

It's again the problem that the album is not in the US itunes store, only in the GB.

You can modify the script to get to other catalogs than the US catalog. For example to get the GB catalog, change the following two lines to appear like this:

[IndexUrl]=http://itunes.apple.com/search?term=%s&entity=album&limit=100&country=GB
[AlbumUrl]=http://itunes.apple.com/lookup?country=GB&id=

[poster]

You can modify the script to get to other catalogs than the US catalog.

Thank you very much, pone.
I had a look in the API documentary and noticed that there seem to be a lot of different national stores and you can define them with country ISO-codes.
I tried DE and this album was found too.

Do you have any experience how much these stores differ and wether it makes any sense to define more special srcipt-versions for different country-stores?

[Link]

2pone:
Thanks for the great script! Can you add 3 additional tag fields: TOTALTRACKS, DISCNUMBER, TOTALDISCS? And replace PUBLISHER tag with COPYRIGHT, as in the original songs from iTunes Store?

[pone]

@poster:
I have no experience how much they differ. The only thing I can say is, there were about three questions here in the forum about problems with albums that could not be found because of that problem.
So there seem to be quite a lot of these cases. I will make a package with 5 or more specific country scripts at the next update.


@Link:
I can build in TOTALTRACKS.

If you want COPYRIGHT instead of PUBLISHER, you will have to edit the script yourself. I think PUBLISHER is more standard. But it's easy to chang for yourself. Upen the src fie in a text editor and change
outputto "PUBLISHER"
into
outputto "COPYRIGHT"

Do DISCNUMBER and TOTALDISCS make sense for itunes? Are there any discs? I Only see digital download releases there.

[Link]

@Link:
I can build in TOTALTRACKS.

If you want COPYRIGHT instead of PUBLISHER, you will have to edit the script yourself. I think PUBLISHER is more standard. But it's easy to chang for yourself. Upen the src fie in a text editor and change
outputto "PUBLISHER"
into
outputto "COPYRIGHT"

Thanks, it works!

Do DISCNUMBER and TOTALDISCS make sense for itunes? Are there any discs? I Only see digital download releases there.

Yes, itunes has the "Disc number" field. It is useful for sorting of multi-disc albums.

[pone]

Yes, itunes has the "Disc number" field. It is useful for sorting of multi-disc albums.

Don't confuse the mediaplayer itunes (your screenshot) with the download shop itunes (my script).

This post has been edited by pone: Jul 20 2012, 13:52

[Jonnyw2k]

Hello,

Thank you for this script, I have some issues tho...
The Album:
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/sound-dub...8?affId=1405655

Has 30 tracks on the UK iTunes site I am unable to check the US version as it wouldn't open in my browser and kept telling me to download iTunes.

But using the script it only has tags for the first 15 tracks.

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OK I fixed it
I changed the script to access the uk iTunes instead by changing 2 lines:

[IndexUrl]=http://itunes.apple.com/search?term=%s&country=GB&entity=album&limit=100
[AlbumUrl]=http://itunes.apple.com/lookup?country=GB&id=

This post has been edited by Jonnyw2k: Sep 8 2012, 14:28

[AppleAddict]

Hello, I'm a French Person and I would like to have the Web Sources Scripts for iTunes France please ! Thanks