Comments on: iTunes, Perl, and You http://www.asktherelic.com/2008/09/28/itunes-perl-and-you/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:58:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-bleeding hourly 1 By: askedrelic http://www.asktherelic.com/2008/09/28/itunes-perl-and-you/#comment-115 askedrelic Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:02:48 +0000 http://www.asktherelic.com/?p=111#comment-115 Looks good Scott, although I happen to only run OSX, so no VBS script support for me. If you had to download and install a language anyways, why not use one that runs on multiple platforms! Looks good Scott, although I happen to only run OSX, so no VBS script support for me. If you had to download and install a language anyways, why not use one that runs on multiple platforms!

]]> By: S Yanoff http://www.asktherelic.com/2008/09/28/itunes-perl-and-you/#comment-112 S Yanoff Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:08:31 +0000 http://www.asktherelic.com/?p=111#comment-112 PERL is so awesome for this type of thing, especially it's associative arrays. As I didn't want to install PERL for gathering iTunes stats, I wrote one in VB Script (which uses the concept of a Dictionary object which is like PERL's associate arrays). It basically spits out a bunch of numbers and lists to a date-stamped file and it takes about a minute to run for every 1,000 songs you have. For me, it takes just over 3 minutes to run on my aging home PC (with nearly 5,000 songs). You can save it anywhere on your PC and double-click on it and it should run. You may need to have VB.NET installed, so you can go to the Microsoft Updates site for that. I am VERY interested in feedback on this, and I'd welcome enhancements to the script as well. You can get information and download it from: http://yanoff.org/music/iTunesStats.shtml Cheers, -Scott PERL is so awesome for this type of thing, especially it’s associative arrays. As I didn’t want to install PERL for gathering iTunes stats, I wrote one in VB Script (which uses the concept of a Dictionary object which is like PERL’s associate arrays).

It basically spits out a bunch of numbers and lists to a date-stamped file and it takes about a minute to run for every 1,000 songs you have. For me, it takes just over 3 minutes to run on my aging home PC (with nearly 5,000 songs).

You can save it anywhere on your PC and double-click on it and it should run. You may need to have VB.NET installed, so you can go to the Microsoft Updates site for that. I am VERY interested in feedback on this, and I’d welcome enhancements to the script as well.

You can get information and download it from:
http://yanoff.org/music/iTunesStats.shtml

Cheers,
-Scott

]]> By: iTunes Music Blog http://www.asktherelic.com/2008/09/28/itunes-perl-and-you/#comment-99 iTunes Music Blog Fri, 28 Nov 2008 04:53:10 +0000 http://www.asktherelic.com/?p=111#comment-99 I cannot say how right you are!!! These other people have failed to see your point. I am going to put a link on my blog back to you ok? I cannot say how right you are!!! These other people have failed to see your point. I am going to put a link on my blog back to you ok?

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