How to randomly play an iTunes-song & show the title of it

VladGhitulescu · May 28, 2016, 4:58pm

Hello!

I would like to

play randomly an iTunes-song from a certain playlist (triggered by a keyboard-shortcut / hot key trigger)
show the name of the song (triggered by another keyboard-shortcut / hot key trigger)

Would this be possible only with KeyboardMaestro or should I start to dig this AppleScript out ;-)?

Thanks!

Regards,
Vlad

DanThomas · May 28, 2016, 5:45pm

Well, here's part of it:

I'll see about the title.

DanThomas · May 28, 2016, 5:48pm

..And

peternlewis · May 29, 2016, 5:35am

VladGhitulescu · May 29, 2016, 1:19pm

Hi, Dan!

That works, thank you!
Now I’m trying the second part (the name)…

DanThomas · May 29, 2016, 1:48pm

Great! Use Peter's method:

VladGhitulescu · May 29, 2016, 5:27pm

I was just about to ask how to insert the variable in a message!
Thanks again, to both of you!

VladGhitulescu · May 29, 2016, 5:31pm

With this 2 KBM-macros I can play randomly a guitar-chord, try to guess it and then get the (correct) name of the chord.

DanThomas · May 29, 2016, 5:34pm

That’s kind of cool, actually. I’ve got more years of experience playing guitar that I care to mention, but I think I’d suck at that game!