[Pythonmac-SIG] appscript: selecting many songs in iTunes

[Niko Matsakis]

> Still sounds very slow. What OS & iTunes versions; how big's the  
> playlist and what % is duplicates? I mocked up a 550-item playlist  
> containing 500 duplicates and my script took 50 secs to get through  
> that (iTunes 6.0.1; OS 10.4.3); 10 secs if I close the playlist  
> window first so iTunes doesn't have to update that each time.

It's not a playlist, the script is running across the entire iTunes  
library of many gigabytes.

> What you mean by 'handles'?

I meant what you get when you do something like app('iTunes').library 
['playlist'].tracks.filter (its.database_ID=someid).get().  Sorry for  
my inaccurate terminology.  I suspect what I saw was an individual  
apple event timing out.


Niko