Controlling iTunes with Perl

EccentricAnomaly writes "brian d foy has created perl modules for controlling iTunes. His modules, Mac::iTunes and Apache::iTunes, can be found on the CPAN. Now perl mongers can run iTunes remotely via the command line or via a web interface on a Mac hooked-up to a nice stereo to use as a home or office jukebox. I shudder to think what else may be possible now that iTunes is in perl's clutches."

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With a little help from AppleScript, I might add

[djupedal]

The PERL needs AppleScript to talk to iTunes. It doesn't do it on it's own...been there and doing the same thing with PHP :)

Check my gallery site that lets visitors also spy on my currently playing song, etc. I use PHP and MySQL to manage a Mac and Linux (2 box combo) image database. Just for fun, PHP, along w/AppleScript, pulls data from iTunes, while it supports image serving, uploading, resizing, etc. Ho Ho Ho

Re:With a little help from AppleScript, I might ad

[WatertonMan]

Just out of curiousity, how do these Perl scripts work if there is no user currently logged into OSX? After all iTunes works in a user mode. If you call the Perl script and no user is logged in, will it work?

If this is the same code that was discussed over at O'Reilly you need to start tweaking how Apache or other things run.

There was a discussion of this over at MacNN Forums as well.