ichat away message as current itunes songs

blackjacmac

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• Oct 26, 2008

• #1

hey everybody. i've checked the site a few times but was unable to find out how to create an away message as the current itunes song. i've found a few post about rearranging the order. which was helpful but not quite what i wanted to do. some info on my setup
software info ichat 4
osx 10.5.5 with all updates as of 10/26/08
blackbook 2.2 c2d 4g ram

thanks in advance

 

mkrishnan

Moderator emeritus

• Oct 26, 2008

• #2

Do you mean something like this?

http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2008/03/itunes-status-message-for-ichat/

If you want to set away and iTunes track at the same time, you could probably easily modify it:

Code:

tell application "iChat"
   set the status to away
   set the status message to "%Track - %Artist"
end tell

 

blackjacmac

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• Oct 27, 2008

• #3

thanks for that piece of code. i ran that script and it did set my status to away but instead of showing the artist and track im just getting %track - %artist. i quit and relaunched both programs. im not sure if there is another step that i might need to preform. also is it possible to just change the current itunes song item from available to away?

 

mkrishnan

Moderator emeritus

• Oct 27, 2008

• #4

Hmmm, it seems that the part that says %Track... has to exactly match a plist string called itunesmessageformat. So you might have to look at that value and/or change it to your liking, and then try it. See the article

http://acletras.com/2008/03/29/change-ichats-current-itunes-song-status-message/

For more information on doing that.

And hmm, I don't know a way you can take the existing one and change it, unfortunately.

 

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jca488

macrumors member

• Dec 7, 2008

• #5

it works!

Well, I dont know much code. But for my away i just entered "%Track - %Artist" and it worked!
however when I tried to add text it only showed 'text. %Track - %Artist' instead of the song i was playing. but now it works so thanks for the code!

-J

 

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MasterMind3895

macrumors newbie

• Apr 2, 2009

• #6

jca488 said:

Well, I dont know much code. But for my away i just entered "%Track - %Artist" and it worked!
however when I tried to add text it only showed 'text. %Track - %Artist' instead of the song i was playing. but now it works so thanks for the code!

-J

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Rock on simplicity

 

sou1 so1di3r

macrumors 6502a

• May 5, 2009

• #7

jca488 said:

Well, I dont know much code. But for my away i just entered "%Track - %Artist" and it worked!
however when I tried to add text it only showed 'text. %Track - %Artist' instead of the song i was playing. but now it works so thanks for the code!

-J

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yes! Thanks!