is this possible?
Im trying to repeat my script over each playlist that isn’t in a folder.
Hi,
reading the property parent throws an error if the playlist is not in a folder
tell application "iTunes"
repeat with aPlaylist in (get user playlists of source "Library")
try
parent of aPlaylist
on error
-- do something with aPlaylist
end try
end repeat
end tell
Hi,
Not sure if you can use this, but you may be able to check for existence. Still checking it out and might need to do speed tests.
tell application "iTunes"
if not (exists parent of playlist "Various1") then
beep 2
end if
end tell
Thanks, both these works, but how would I modify this to work with a specific folder, for instance.
I want my script to target all playlists not in a folder named “IGNORE”.
Or is it possible to ‘get every playlist in a playlist folder’? I have tried many way in my script to achieve this, and searched online, but no answers.
Hi fhill2,
After thinking about it, what I usually do when I want everything that is not something else, is make a smart playlist. You might want to look into that.
gl,
kel
Usually I would do that, but in this case I’m rebuilding my iTunes hierachy in the Finder and only want the script to be performed on certain playlists not within a folder. A smart playlist won’t help me.
and I’ve answered my own question here . I came up with this script which will test to see if a playlist belongs to a certain playlist folder.
Thanks for previous ‘parent’ advice which helped me solve this problem
tell application "iTunes"
set thePlaylists to get every playlist whose special kind is none
set theNewPlaylists to {}
repeat with thePlaylist in thePlaylists
set theTarget to thePlaylist
repeat
try
set theTarget to parent of theTarget
on error
exit repeat
end try
end repeat
if (name of theTarget) is not equal to "IGNORE" then set the end of theNewPlaylists to thePlaylist
end repeat
end tell
I usually do that, but in this case I’m designing a script that imports my iTunes playlists into the Finder. But I only want it to run over playlists that are not in the “IGNORED” folder.
I have found this script, from this post.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15408694/how-do-i-select-playlists-in-a-subfolder-in-itunes-using-applescript
tell application "iTunes"
set myList to {}
set myFolder to folder playlist "testFolder"
set myPlaylists to playlists
repeat with aPlaylist in myPlaylists
try
if aPlaylist's parent = myFolder then set end of myList to aPlaylist's name
end try
end repeat
return myList
end tell
This successfully gets the playlists in a folder, but doesn’t account for playlists of playlists folders in that folder. (uh confusing :o)
I’ve tried this. Which attempts to count up to the final parent. But doesn’t work 
tell application "iTunes"
set thePlaylists to get every playlist whose special kind is none
set theNewPlaylists to {}
repeat with thePlaylist in thePlaylists
set theTarget to thePlaylist
repeat
try
set theTarget to parent of theTarget
on error
exit repeat
end try
end repeat
if (name of theTarget) is not equal to "IGNORED" then set the end of theNewPlaylists to thePlaylist
end repeat
end tell
You can a repeat while or call a subroutine that returns a Boolean value that checks if a folder(parent) name is “IGNORED”
on parentPassedTest:aFolder
set passed to aFolder’s name is not “IGNORED”
if passed.and exsists aFolder’s parent
set aParentFolder to aFolder’s parent
set passed to my parentPassedTest:aParentFolder
end if
return passed
end parentPassedTest: