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Created August 28, 2012 10:47
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Open link list for the 5by5 show currently playing in iTunes
tell application "System Events"
set itunesRunning to count of (every process whose name is "iTunes")
if itunesRunning is 0 then return
end tell
tell application "iTunes"
if player state is stopped then return
set shows to {{title:"Hypercritical", slug:"hypercritical"}, {title:"The Talk Show", slug:"talkshow"}, {title:"Build and Analyze", slug:"buildanalyze"}, {title:"After Dark", slug:"afterdark"}, {title:"The Pipeline", slug:"pipeline"}, {title:"5by5 Specials", slug:"specials"}, {title:"Back To Work", slug:"b2w"}, {title:"Mac Power Users", slug:"mpu"}, {title:"The Incomparable", slug:"incomparable"}, {title:"The Cocktail Napkin", slug:"tcn"}, {title:"Latest in Paleo", slug:"paleo"}, {title:"Critical Path", slug:"criticalpath"}, {title:"The Big Web Show", slug:"bigwebshow"}, {title:"Content Talks", slug:"contenttalks"}, {title:"Founders Talk", slug:"founderstalk"}, {title:"The Ihnatko Almanac", slug:"ia"}, {title:"Geek Friday", slug:"geekfriday"}, {title:"Internet Superhero", slug:"superhero"}, {title:"The Web Ahead", slug:"webahead"}, {title:"5by5 at the Movies", slug:"movies"}, {title:"Systematic", slug:"systematic"}, {title:"The B&B Podcast", slug:"bb"}, {title:"Amplified", slug:"amplified"}, {title:"In Beta", slug:"inbeta"}, {title:"The Comic Shack", slug:"comicshack"}, {title:"The Nickel", slug:"nickel"}, {title:"Screen Time", slug:"screentime"}}
repeat with theShow in shows
if title of theShow is (album of current track) then
copy (get name of current track) to trackName
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {":"}
set epNumber to last word of text item 1 of trackName
--trim non-digits from episode number (e.g. #)
set epNumber to do shell script "echo " & quoted form of epNumber & "| tr -cd '[[:digit:]]'"
set showUrl to "http://5by5.tv/" & (slug of theShow) & "/" & epNumber & "/#links_block"
tell application "Finder" to open location showUrl
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
end tell
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