Comments on: Down Convert http://automatorworld.com/archives/down-convert/ Better Living Through Macintosh Scripting Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:32:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: BDK http://automatorworld.com/archives/down-convert/comment-page-1/#comment-12001 BDK Tue, 22 Aug 2006 18:35:14 +0000 http://www.automatorworld.com/?p=158#comment-12001 <p>I was REALLY hoping this would work because I don't want to listen to Lossless files on my Nano. Unfortunately it seems to be a problem with Doug’s Actions for iTunes vol 1. No problem down converting the files, but there are bugs in "Copy Tracks to iPod". This hasn't worked reliably once.</p> I was REALLY hoping this would work because I don’t want to listen to Lossless files on my Nano. Unfortunately it seems to be a problem with Doug’s Actions for iTunes vol 1. No problem down converting the files, but there are bugs in “Copy Tracks to iPod”. This hasn’t worked reliably once.

]]> By: Dave Abrahams http://automatorworld.com/archives/down-convert/comment-page-1/#comment-5482 Dave Abrahams Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:36:26 +0000 http://www.automatorworld.com/?p=158#comment-5482 <p>This script seems to "work," but also has several problems:</p> <ol> <li>Just by looking at the script in Automator, I get this barely intelligible error if I don't have, on the iPod, a playlist with the same name as the iPod:</li> </ol> <blockquote> AppleScript Error iTunes Got an error: Can't get name of every user playlist of some source whose name of it = "XXX". (-1728) </blockquote> <p>where XXX is the name of the iPod.</p> <ol> <li><p>Complaints about, IIRC, not finding a "domain pair" or something, with something like "com doug YYY" for two of the sub-scripts this one is calling (where YYY is the name of the script). I can't repro it right now because the script is running.</p></li> <li><p>A few other flaky error messages seemingly having to do with the set/restore encoding pair.</p></li> </ol> <p>I've got no Automator fu and lost what little AppleScript fu I once had, so I'm in no position to debug these.</p> This script seems to “work,” but also has several problems:

  1. Just by looking at the script in Automator, I get this barely intelligible error if I don’t have, on the iPod, a playlist with the same name as the iPod:
AppleScript Error iTunes Got an error: Can’t get name of every user playlist of some source whose name of it = “XXX”. (-1728)

where XXX is the name of the iPod.

  1. Complaints about, IIRC, not finding a “domain pair” or something, with something like “com doug YYY” for two of the sub-scripts this one is calling (where YYY is the name of the script). I can’t repro it right now because the script is running.

  2. A few other flaky error messages seemingly having to do with the set/restore encoding pair.

I’ve got no Automator fu and lost what little AppleScript fu I once had, so I’m in no position to debug these.

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