Try this. You should be able to run it from Script Editor, or export it to an app and use that, or put it in the scripts folder and access it from the menu bar.
use scripting additions
set theOpenFilesFolder to "/Users/Path1/wavFiles/"
set theSaveFilesFolder to "/Users/Path2/rx2Files/"
set toff to POSIX file theOpenFilesFolder
tell application "Finder"
set salt to (every item of folder toff) as alias list
set wavList to {}
repeat with sel in salt -- generate list of path of every wav file
if name extension of sel is "wav" then -- if extension is .wav then add to list
set end of wavList to quoted form of POSIX path of contents of sel
end if
end repeat
end tell
set fissile to "/Applications/ReCycle/ReCycle.app"
launch application fissile
set ot to 1 -- first time through
repeat with wav in wavList
do shell script "open -a " & fissile & space & wav
delay 1.5 -- adjust according to your computer's speed
tell application "System Events"
delay 0.5
key code 1 using {command down, shift down} -- Save current document as a ReCycle file. [S]
delay 1
if ot is less than 2 then -- only for first time through
key code 5 using {shift down, command down} -- Go to… [command-shift-G]
delay 1
keystroke theSaveFilesFolder
delay 2
set ot to 3 -- from now on, will skip the 'go to' actions
key code 36
end if
delay 1.5
key code 36 -- Return
key code 13 using command down -- Close current document [w]
delay 1
end tell
end repeat
tell application "System Events" to key code 12 using command down -- quit recycle [q]
A couple of notes:
It launches ReCycle at the beginning and leaves it open until all files have been processed. This shouldn’t be an issue but we’ll see.
It sets a variable ‘ot’ and after the first file is processed, changes its value. Thereafter, it checks the value and since it has changed, skips the the command-shift-G part. This way, you should only go through it once.
I should add that I don’t have this app. I’ve been testing with Fission, which similarly has no applescript support, but it lets me open and close audio files.
As to your last question, recycle probably doesn’t support that. Using it to open files is different and only depends on recycle’s ability to work with the file type. Presumably, the developer doesn’t feel it’s in their interest to add these kinds of features.
You could always test it though. Launch the Terminal. Right-click on the app and click ‘Show Package Contents’. It should open the application bundle. Click through the ‘Contents’ and ‘MacOS’ folders and then drag the file —which should be just the app name and have a black icon with the word ‘exec’ on it— onto an open terminal window. Type a space and then -h (short for help). Hit enter. It might launch the application. It might display some help text. If it does, then it should let you know what capabilities it has. Conceivably, there might be more than one file in the folder.
Just gave it a go, and, it seems it is going through all the motions. However, none of the converted images were stored, and, I get the following window on every single file within the folder.
One minor inconvenience that still bugs me is that I can not “uncheck” where it says Auto-Play in order to disable the sound preview (of full audio file) when I am selecting the file.
Here is the updated script, edited 1 line and added/changed 2 of lines.
use scripting additions
set theOpenFilesFolder to "/Users/Path1/wavFiles/"
set theSaveFilesFolder to "/Users/Path2/rx2Files/"
-- Added the following line
set rx2FilesPath to theSaveFilesFolder
set toff to POSIX file theOpenFilesFolder
tell application "Finder"
set salt to (every item of folder toff) as alias list
set wavList to {}
repeat with sel in salt -- generate list of path of every wav file
if name extension of sel is "wav" then -- if extension is .wav then add to list
set end of wavList to quoted form of POSIX path of contents of sel
end if
end repeat
end tell
set fissile to "/Applications/ReCycle/ReCycle.app"
launch application fissile
set ot to 1 -- first time through
repeat with wav in wavList
do shell script "open -a " & fissile & space & wav
delay 1.5 -- adjust according to your computer's speed
tell application "System Events"
delay 0.5
-- Changed the following line
-- key code 1 using {shift down, command down} -- Save current document as a ReCycle file. [S]
-- to...
key code 1 using command down -- Save current document as a ReCycle file. [S]
delay 1
if ot is less than 2 then -- only for first time through
key code 5 using {shift down, command down} -- Go to… [command-shift-G]
delay 1
-- Changed the following line
-- keystroke theSaveFilesFolder
-- to...
keystroke rx2FilesPath
delay 2
set ot to 3 -- from now on, will skip the 'go to' actions
key code 36
end if
delay 1.5
key code 36 -- Return
key code 13 using command down -- Close current document [w]
delay 1
end tell
end repeat
tell application "System Events" to key code 12 using command down -- quit recycle [q]
So, from a manual task (taking a long time), it went to 4 min & 12 secs, then to 2 min & 10 secs, with a final time tally (using the above script) to 1 min & 20 secs.
Good catch. That is an artefact from my tests using Fission, which uses command-shift-S to open the ‘save as’ dialogue. I forgot and neglected to fix it when I made the post here.
In regards to your later post… that’s a good savings. You could probably trim some of the delay times as well. I would be surprised if it could get pushed down under a minute that way.
I’m glad it worked out for you.
By the way, while I don’t recall a bit of it, I studied fortran (probably IV with watfor and watfive — although I don’t know if I’m writing that correctly) in high school.
