drowning_not_waving

I love Caleb's Play Song workflow but it has one feature I would dearly love - to search for query text in fallback search. https://alfred.app/workflows/caleb531/play-song/ There is a fallback search option but only for when there is no matche in Apple Music. I have 60K+ songs in Apple Music so almost any text will get a match (usually not the song I'm after) and I would like the fallback search of the query text in youtube/google/discogs etc. whether it gets a match in Apple Music or not. https://www.upwork.com/jobs/~015f4ceabfb49ee45d I don't know if I'll find anyone with Alfred workflow skills on Upwork but I have posted a job anyway because this has been driving me crazy for years. https://www.upwork.com/jobs/~015f4ceabfb49ee45d

Thanks Deanishe. That makes sense. I also found a workflow that does it much better than I could: https://github.com/caleb531/play-song.

Yes David, the metadata is there (get info on the file shows correct author and title). The tagging is good. That is not the issue. The problem may be something to do with the fact that, when searching, the Alfred results only display the song title - rather than the file name (which is what I expected). I assume this is some sort of standard Alfred setting. So, unless the artist name appears in the song title (which would be incorrect) it just won't find title + artist (author). P.S. thank you for your interest in helping solve this.

I have kMDItemAuthors in the file filter + Title, DisplayName, UserTags, OMUserTags. It finds artist name but not in combination with song name. So, as explained, it will find "Chuck Berry" and "Maybelline" but not "Chuck Berry Maybelline". I get a blank even though I have a song by "Chuck Berry" called "Maybelline"

Hi brains-trust, I'm trying to create a simple workflow to find mp3 files in my iTunes music folder (its quicker than searching in iTunes itself). The search scope is correct and it finds all the files BY SONG TITLE but it does not filter by ARTIST NAME. e.g. I have an mp3 of artist = "Chuck Berry", title = "Maybelline". If I search for "Maybelline" it will find all files of song called "Maybelline". But if I search "MAYBELLINE CHUCK BERRY" it doesn't find anything. This is even more frustrating given that the filename is "maybelline_chuck_berry.mp3" I need it to find files by SONG TITLE combined with ARTIST NAME. Any help appreciated.

LEGEND. It appears to work (when I use your workflow). Maybe it didn't work before because I didn't use shell script stuff/workflow folder, I just pasted the script straight into the output. This has to be about the most useful forum on the internets. Thanks smarg19 and Vitor!

Hi Smarg. I'm sorry if I'm not explaining it properly and thank you for your help. What I want to be able to do is: 1. call up Alfred workflow (hotkey or keyword) 2. enter argument text "X.Y" (using "." or " " or whatever as text delimiter) 3. script opens application, e.g Word 4. script pastes/keystrokes item 1 of argument ("X") into Word document 5. script tabs/returns to another part of the document and pastes/keystrokes item 2 of argument ("Y"). I have tried your script and unfortunately it didn't work. It got stuck on the same line as my script: "set query to argv as text" I know that because if I replace "set query to argv as text" with "set argv to "X.Y"" it works (in the sense that it pastes "X" and "Y" separately). But I just can't get the script to take the argument "X.Y" (in an Alfred dialog) and do the same thing. Again, thanks.

Hi Vitor. It relates to an Alfred script I'm working on (using a text box and osascript output). I understand Applescript may not be the ideal language but at least I know a bit of it. I am not an IT person (believe), I'm just trying to learn a few modest skills to make some hacky Alfred workflows. If I can learn how to get multiple queries to work, that will just about do me for programming. I'll leave the rest to the experts. Thanks.

Hi all. I am home-schooled Applescripter. I’m tryin to make an Applescript workflow that splits an argument in half and pastes one half first and the other half later. I am using a text box with a Run Script (osa script) output. The problem is getting the applescript to “see” the argument and parse/explode it. The set clipboard / paste functions work fine. on run argv set query to argv as text set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"."} tell application "Microsoft Word" set the clipboard to text item 1 of argv activate end tell delay 2 tell application "System Events" keystroke "v" using command down end tell delay 2 tell application "Microsoft Word" set the clipboard to text item 2 of argv activate tell application "System Events" keystroke "v" using command down end tell end tell end run Any help much appreciated.