what is Kung-Tunes?
Kung-Tunes is a with AppleScript Studio created OSX donation-ware utility to retrieve the currently played iTunes track and upload it to a webserver. Any scripts on that webserver can then access the uploaded file to dynamically display iTunes tracks on a webpage. An example can be seen on my weblog (right-hand side bar). A screenshot of the application is shown below, featuring the main window. Either manually or at timed intervals, Kung-Tunes retrieves the currently playing iTunes track, saves it to file, and uploads the file to a specified webserver. Details are provided in the accompanying readme file and an extended tutorial is available on my weblog. For the latest Kung-Tunes (2.2), also read this blog entry on how to use the HTTP POST option.
screenshots
| Main window | Preferences |
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| Formatting | Dock menu |
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download Kung-Tunes
The Kung-Tunes Application + Readme can be downloaded in gzipped disk image format. The Source Code is also available in dmg.gz format (but is outdated).
Distribution is under GNU General Public License and details are provided in the accompanying readme files.
Kung-Tunes donors
For other public Kung-Tunes powered websites, do a Google search.
Put a banner on your site to show that you are using Kung-Tunes. You can find them on my weblog.
what users said about Kung-Tunes
User reviews can be found at VersionTracker.com or MacUpdate.com. Here's a selection:
- Athax: Excellent program! Very easy to use and does exactly what it's supposed to do. A+!
- BMerlin: Killer! I've been wanting something like this for a LONG time.
- - - e r i k - -: Between this and Kung-Log I must say that you are my favorite utility company for running my blog :D
- iobuffa: Awesome program, probably the most useful freeware app i have. think i'll donate :)
- JoeRHaQ: Its dynamic content. it's cooler than you. some people like to appeal to the voyeuristic tendencies of--and preach to--others over the internet.
- neptho: Beautiful meld of script hackery. Bravo, kungfoo - Easy and pretty enough for the juniors, and with enough of a skeleton for us geeky folk to utilize to wrap our own bits, if so inclined
- schmelding: Kung-Tunes, will you marry me?
acknowledgments
Kudos to Apple for their awesome Project Builder and Interface Builder apps. Surely makes developing as easy as boiling an egg. The included source code illustrates how to set up an AppleScript driven GUI, call a UNIX shell command, create a preferences file, add a custom icon, talk to iTunes, text manipulation, and some more stuff. Almost all of it is learned from browsing through Apple's own examples.
Special thanks also to Jason Perkins, Randy Sesser, Bernie Case, and Neil Lee.
changes in latest version
Full history of changes is included in the download.