Afternoon,

I'm writing a small applescript app in xcode to help manage my music collection. I'm trying to display the artwork from the tracks. I use the following code to get the artwork data from iTunes:

tell application "iTunes"
            set track_x to track 17 of playlist "Library"
            set artwork_data to data of artwork 1 of track_x
end tell

It returns the data as an NSAppleEventDescriptor. I query to get the class using:

current application's NSLog("%@", class of artwork_data)

Result:
<NSAppleEventDescriptor: 'JPEG'>

I have tried all kinds of ways to try and extract the data to create an NSImage but I can't figure it out. I've looked at examples for extracting data from NSAppleEventDescriptors that a contain lists etc. I also tried the following, with no luck

set theCode to current application's NSHFSTypeCodeFromFileType("rdat'")
set theData to  (current application's NSAppleEventDescriptor's descriptorWithDescriptorType:theCode |data|:theData) as data

Any thoughts?

Cheers,

James.