/iTunes no longer has iTunes to talk to on Catalina 10.15 about colloquy HOT 7 OPEN

@runrunrirun Do you have a preference for what the new "command" should be, i.e. should it stay /iTunes? Convert to /Music? Should both work regardless?

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@runrunrirun Also, out of curiosity, would you want to be able to do /TV and have whatever is playing in the TV app appear in the chat? What about /Podcast?

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We can make an alias so both /iTunes and /music can live alongside one another, yeah?

A suite of similar commands for other media apps would also be nifty

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@zadr That was my thought.

I'm guessing–but it's only a guess, that the messaging that used to work for iTunes will also work for Music, TV and Podcast, and that the two additional endpoints would need to be added and message the appropriate app. But I'm not intimately familiar with this codebase.

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iTunes support comes through macOS's AppleScript bridge, you can check the script out here: https://github.com/colloquy/colloquy/blob/main/Mac-Old/Mac-Old/Plug-Ins/iTunes/iTunes.scpt

The AppleScript dictionary for the Music and TV apps likely vary somewhat even if they both appear to have current track properties.

Music and iTunes share the same dictionary, so changing the app name we query (or rather, dynamically knowing which to use) is likely enough to get things working on, like @runrunrirun was suggesting!

Podcasts doesn't appear to have an AppleScript Dictionary that we can query, so this extension unlikely right now.

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Perhaps a bit redundant, but probably both /iTunes and /Music should work for backward compatibility. As far as /TV goes, I personally don't have a need there, but if it was easy that would be a logical addition.

I've actually kind of wanted a /nowplaying for whatever audio app is playing, but I assume that things like Spotify don't have scripting support.

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So I was going to take a crack at modifying the iTunes script for Catalina, but the app seems to be completely unable to send to System Events. I think the dev build I have needs to be rebuilt with the Apple Events capability added to the Hardened Runtime (?) Unfortunately it appears that building Colloquy requires a full Apple Developer account to build for Catalina. Any chance someone could cut a version of the existing dev build with Apple Events turned on?

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