macOS Applescript help

[King Boo]

I need help with this script:

set x to display dialog "What song do you want to hear?" default answer "" buttons {"OK"} default button 1
tell application "iTunes"
activate
play track "x" of playlist "Library"
end tell

As you can see, I am trying to get itunes to play a song that I enter, however, to my dismay, I cannot figure out how to get itunes to play the variable I have entered in. Note that this script:

tell application "iTunes"
activate
play track "x" of playlist "Library"
end tell

works if you change "x" to a song of your choice, such as "Blue Monday". I however think this is against the point and don't want to open applescript just to play a song. Please help with the user input and variable, because this is the problem I have been stumped on for a while. Thank you in advance. If you don't understand, I'm happy to clear up any misunderstandings.

I am also new here. I don't plan on coming to this site much to post, only to browse. Only rare circumstances like these require a post.

 

[Dalton63841]

Okay the problem is you set the variable to the display dialog itself.

set x to text returned of (display dialog "What song do you want to hear?" default answer "" buttons {"OK"} default button 1)
tell application "iTunes"
activate
play track "x" of playlist "Library"
end tell

 

[King Boo]

Yes, I know

That didn't fix it. Have you tried the script? That isn't the problem. I just need to know how to get this:

play track "x" of playlist "Library"

to find the song I typed in. Variable x is used to store that song. I can't get x to be a variable there. In fact, it just opens up itunes and tells me that it can't make some data into the expected type. This happens with your new script and mine.

 

[andy 111r]

Just take the speech marks of x and it'll work as in....

set x to text returned of (display dialog "What song do you want to hear?" default answer "" buttons {"OK"} default button 1)
tell application "iTunes"
activate
play track x of playlist "Library"
end tell

 

[King Boo]

Yeah, thanks

I tried that before, but I hadn't done what Dalton 63841 told me to do along with it, since it had failed before. Thanks both of you.