{"id":1972,"date":"2005-06-17T08:51:45","date_gmt":"2005-06-17T13:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=717"},"modified":"2005-06-17T08:51:45","modified_gmt":"2005-06-17T13:51:45","slug":"assisting-the-bottom-feeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1972","title":{"rendered":"Assisting the bottom-feeding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine recently gave a way a stack of CDs, part of his <a href=\"http:\/\/davidaspitzley.org\/BottomFeeding\/Index.htm\">Musical Bottom-Feeding<\/a> project, where he gets and reviews an armload of discs from the record store bargain bin.  I&#8217;ve put a half-dozen of them into an iTunes playlist to listen to at work.<\/p>\n<p>iTunes has a nifty feature where you can assign a 1-5 star rating to a track, and I got to thinking that it&#8217;d be nice if you could assign this rating without having to actually switch to iTunes from whatever you&#8217;re currently doing&#8230;  iTunes is hugely scriptable, so I suppose I could write a hook into it, but that&#8217;s too much like effort.  Especially when someone else has already written a <i>huge<\/i> collection of scripts, one of which does almost exactly what I want.  Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dougscripts.com\/itunes\/scrxcont.php\">www.dougscripts.com<\/a> there are scripts for pretty much everything.  Well worth checking out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine recently gave a way a stack of CDs, part of his Musical Bottom-Feeding project, where he gets and reviews an armload of discs from the record store bargain bin. I&#8217;ve put a half-dozen of them into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1972\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}