Projects that I don't expect to get to anytime soon. Ideas that I've had about things I'd like to build but expect that I very well never get to them.
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(I should probably move this to FeatureRequests).
Ideally this would be a feature in iTunes:
Person A (the DJ) turns on sharing in their network capable music playing software/device (e.g. iTunes).
Person B (the listener) uses their network capable music playing software/device to locate Person A's shared music, selects it, twiddles it open to see their list of playlists etc., and notices a special one at the top called "Now Playing...".
Double clicking that starts streaming the exact music that Person A is listening to, in realtime. If Person A changes the track, Person B gets the new track as well. Etc.
However it might be possible to build this as an AppleScript.
Person A (the DJ) turns on sharing in their network capable music playing software/device (e.g. iTunes) and sets their IM status to be the "current track" that they are listening to.
Person B (listener) launches an AppleScript that makes a list of all people that are sharing their iTunes and also goes thru their buddy list and makes a list of people that are showing what music they are listening to.
If possible it produces an intersection of those two lists as just a list of people whose music you can follow.
If not you have to pick from each list (maybe easier for a first implementation).
The script then:
The only question is whether all that info is available to get/set/change via AppleScript which unfortunately I doubt because AppleScript, and AppleScript support is SO LAME. (Insert rant about wishing there were better ways to automate user-interface actions in MacOS applications, i.e. NO ONE knows applescript well. It is the WORST programming language bar none. I'm pretty sure I have a proof for that somewhere and I am an *expert* HyperTalk programmer which is perhaps the *closest* language to AppleScript. The only way to really program applescript is to look for a script close to what you want on the web, and then modify it it is pretty much impossible to write a script from scratch. I've even written several AppleScripts, I think even published a few.)
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