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iTunes script- How long have I been listening?

G4scott

G4scott

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Is there an apple script anywhere out there that gets the play counts of all your songs, and figures out how long you've been listening to music?

It doesn't seem like it'd be too hard, and I'd be interested to see how many days of listening time I have...

Just a thought...
 
Here's a script I've written:

Code: 
tell application "Finder"
	set myLocation to (((path to desktop folder) as text) & "iTunes_PlayCount.html")
	if file myLocation exists then
		delete file myLocation
	end if
	set myFileRef to (open for access file myLocation with write permission)
	
	
	write "<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>my Play Counts </TITLE></HEAD><BODY>" & return to myFileRef
	write "<p>My playcounts for all my songs...</p>" & return to myFileRef
	write "<TABLE width=500 border=1>" & return to myFileRef
	
	
	tell application "iTunes"
		set myPlaylist to every playlist
		set x to the first item of myPlaylist
		set myTrackList to every track of x
		repeat with y in myTrackList
			set myTrackName to name of y
			set myPlayedCount to played count of y
			tell application "Finder"
				write "<tr><td>" & myTrackName & "</td>" & "<td width=15%>" & myPlayedCount & "</td></tr>" & return to myFileRef
			end tell
		end repeat
	end tell
	
	write "</TABLE>" & return to myFileRef
	write "</BODY></HTML>" & return to myFileRef
	close access myFileRef
	
	display dialog ("Finished Summary")	
end tell

Copy this code into your applescript editor and click the check syntax button, which will format the script and inform you of errors. Then save it as an application.

This script will list all of the tracks in your first library item in iTunes which hopefully is the default library which lists all of your songs. It will then output the song name and the played count to a table and save it as a html file on your desktop. It's not the fastest of scripts so be patient when it runs.

Your second request of logging how long you listen to music is trickier. You can write a logging script which logs when itunes is launched and when it's quit and calculate the hours in between. To use appplescript to log how much time is spent playing tracks is much more complicated.

My apologies for the page width being altered because of the code.
 
OK, I made a little change to your script, to display the track time of each song,
and just show the songs that have been played at least once.

Code: 
tell application "Finder"
	set myLocation to (((path to desktop folder) as text) & "iTunes_PlayCount.html")
	if file myLocation exists then
		delete file myLocation
	end if
	set myFileRef to (open for access file myLocation with write permission)
	
	
	write "<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>my Play Counts </TITLE></HEAD><BODY>" & return to myFileRef
	write "<p>My playcounts for all my songs...</p>" & return to myFileRef
	write "<TABLE width=600 border=1>" & return to myFileRef
	
	
	tell application "iTunes"
		set myPlaylist to every playlist
		set x to the first item of myPlaylist
		set myTrackList to every track of x
		repeat with y in myTrackList
			set myTrackName to name of y
			set myTrackTime to time of y
			set myPlayedCount to played count of y
			if myPlayedCount > 0 then
				tell application "Finder"
					write "<tr><td>" & myTrackName & "</td>" & "<td width=15%>" & myPlayedCount & "</td>" & "<td width=15%>" & myTrackTime & "</td></tr>" & return to myFileRef
				end tell
			end if
		end repeat
	end tell
	
	write "</TABLE>" & return to myFileRef
	write "</BODY></HTML>" & return to myFileRef
	close access myFileRef
	
	display dialog ("Finished Summary")
end tell


Now, I'm not quite sure how to do this, but is there a way I can multiply the
track times by their corresponding play counts, and add them all together for a
total play time?

I'm not quite sure how to work with time formats in Apple Script...
 
YES!!! I have figured it out!!! MWAHAHAHA

Instead of using the time, I used the finish, which shows how many seconds until the finish of the song...

So far, I'm only able to give a total in seconds, but with a calculator, you can do the math. I've played music for a total of:

16 days, 17 hours, 40 minutes, and 50 seconds.

Now, I need to find a way to get this script to get data from an iPod...

here's the code:

Code: 
tell application "Finder"
	set myLocation to (((path to desktop folder) as text) & "iTunes_PlayCount.html")
	if file myLocation exists then
		delete file myLocation
	end if
	set myFileRef to (open for access file myLocation with write permission)
	
	
	write "<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>my Play Counts </TITLE></HEAD><BODY>" & return to myFileRef
	write "<p>My playcounts for all my songs...</p>" & return to myFileRef
	write "<TABLE width=800 border=1>" & return to myFileRef
	
	
	tell application "iTunes"
		set myPlaylist to every playlist
		set x to the first item of myPlaylist
		set myTrackList to every track of x
		set myTotalTime to 0
		repeat with y in myTrackList
			set myTrackName to name of y
			set myTrackTime to finish of y
			set myTrackTimeText to time of y
			set myPlayedCount to played count of y
			if myPlayedCount > 0 then
				tell application "Finder"
					write "<tr><td>" & myTrackName & "</td>" & "<td width=15%>" & myPlayedCount & "</td>" & "<td width=15%>" & myTrackTime & "<td width=15%>" & myTrackTimeText & "</td>" & "</td></tr>" & return to myFileRef
				end tell
				set myPlayedTime to myTrackTime * myPlayedCount
				set myTotalTime to myTotalTime + myPlayedTime
			end if
		end repeat
	end tell
	
	write "</TABLE>" & return to myFileRef
	write "<p>" & "Total Time Played:  " & myTotalTime & " seconds" & return to myFileRef
	write "</BODY></HTML>" & return to myFileRef
	close access myFileRef
	
	display dialog ("Finished Summary")
end tell

Have fun!
 
Well the iTunes dictionary does have the class "device playlist", so I assume you should be able to adjust the script from just looking at the iTunes playlist to looking at the iPod playlist.

I don't have an iPod so I can't help you with the script.

Good luck.
 
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