Fetch iTunes song information from Yahoo! Music

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Tue, Jul 24 2007 at 7:30AM PDT • Contributed by: Anonymous

Using Yahoo! webservices, you can interface your iTunes library to the Yahoo! Music Search and fetch any missing information for your library items. I have a lot of songs with missing tags, such as album or release date. Using Ruby and a simple REST query, combined with an AppleScript, you can use a hot key in Quicksilver to quickly load in of the missing information.

You'll need your own Yahoo! API key from Yahoo Developer. The code is a little long, but you can see the listing on my blog.

[robg adds: I haven't tested this one.]

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Fetch iTunes song information from Yahoo! Music
Authored by: martlet on Tue, Jul 24 2007 at 9:59AM PDT

The idea of this is great... finding iTunes data in a new place. But is this a hint, or just something to drive traffic to a blog? Having to download Quicksilver then register with Yahoo! Developer, then cut and paste code in 2 seperate scripting languages, and assemble it all yourself seems more like a project than a hint. Make it a iTunes script menu item, and them we're talking what a hint should be:

"Toss this in your iTunes scripts folder, choose it from the iTunes script menu to update selected songs"

Fetch iTunes song information from Yahoo! Music
Authored by: kristianbf on Tue, Jul 24 2007 at 5:42PM PDT

Alright I understand what your going at - but this isn't an application that can be distributed as easy as that. The application for a Yahoo ID is essential! It takes 2 seconds, and there's a link. No big problem.

I've updated the post to include fast directions on how to put it all into your iTunes script folder:

Download this: http://www.collarhappy.com/yahoo.zip
Extract to ~/Library/iTunes/Scripts
Edit the getinfo.rb file to include your Yahoo ID

I can't do it easier than that!

Fetch iTunes song information from Yahoo! Music
Authored by: maggard on Tue, Jul 24 2007 at 11:23AM PDT

Clever stuff!

Thank you for sharing.

Obviously applying for the Y! developer key can’t be automated, but you’ve done a nice job with the rest. Perhaps those who are dissatisfied can wrap it all up into something more to their liking. At least you’ve got it 95% of the way there.

Fetch iTunes song information from Yahoo! Music
Authored by: kristianbf on Tue, Jul 24 2007 at 5:43PM PDT

I've updated the posts to include fast directions for those not interested in the code behind it. You still need your Yahoo ID though!

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