HTML code to get current iTunes song

[rasmits]

Is there any HTML code (or something) that will display your current iTunes track in simple text, not an image?

[chucker]

You'll have to give more information. By default, iTunes doesn't upload such information at all; it does, however, have interfaces of delivering the information through OSA (AppleScript, etc.) or, on Windows, WSH (VBScript, etc.).

Does the web server run on the same machine as the one that runs iTunes? (Probably not.) Otherwise, you'd have to locally run a script (or have some sort of plug-in or external tool) that uploads the info.

[rasmits]

Does the web server run on the same machine as the one that runs iTunes? (Probably not.) Otherwise, you'd have to locally run a script (or have some sort of plug-in or external tool) that uploads the info.No, it doesn't. It would just be a standard FTP server.

[chucker]

http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/scripts03.php?page=1#trackreporter ?

[turtle]

http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/scripts03.php?page=1#trackreporter ?

Ok, so how did that site know my name? There is a box on the right-hand side begging for donations that used my name. I like this concept for my future site (not the begging just that ID part).

[PKIDelirium]

That's an Amazon box. If you're logged in (with cookie) to Amazon it can read it.

It freaked the shit out of me the first time I saw one. :D

[chucker]

Ok, so how did that site know my name? There is a box on the right-hand side begging for donations that used my name. I like this concept for my future site (not the begging just that ID part).

That's Amazon.com's doing. If you're logged in to Amazon.com, then a page using Amazon.com's "honor system" will show the real name you gave to Amazom.com. This does not mean, by the way, that that site (Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes, in this case) will actually see your name; the 'magic' happens entirely between your browser and Amazon.com. (So there's no privacy issue to it. You're already logged in to the site anyway.)

(edit) PKIDelirium beat me to it.

[rasmits]

Woww, okay, so how do I create a dynamically updating line of text from the file it produces?

[chucker]

Woww, okay, so how do I create a dynamically updating line of text from the file it produces?

I thought the script takes care of that? As far as I can tell, it uploads to your FTP server at a specified interval (such as once a minute).

Or you mean you want it embedded in a web page?

[rasmits]

Or you mean you want it embedded in a web page?Yes, that's what I mean.

[chucker]

Well, if you don't want to bother with SSI, PHP or something more complex, you could use client-side embedding, such as through the embed tag:
<p><embed src="ftp://url/to/your/file.txt" type="text/plain"></embed></p>

[rasmits]

Cool, I'll try that. Thank you.