A while back, I developed a suite of plugins for Wordpress and an Applescript for iTunes that allowed an easy exchange of data between the two. Essentially, the Applescript would create a zip file of specially formatted data from the selected iTunes items…this includes text data like album, artist, year, and also extracted artwork image files. This zip is then uploaded directly as-is through the Wordpress Plugin backend and is extracted and parsed on the server.

Here’s a script I hacked together from bits and pieces of Doug Adams’ excellent Applescript work. My modifications are inelegant, but got the job done for my purposes. The script can be pretty easily tweaked (with just a little scripting experience) to many ends.

It took me many years, almost 5 to be precise, to really wrap my head around what a website is. Actually, let me rephrase that. It’s taken me 5 years to figure out what a website ISN’T. Here are my findings.

Though there are more and more ways to hide a lousy performance behind a slew of star-making plugins, in the end, genuine, raw, and real will always outshine its competition. Have a little faith in the modern music listener to find the goodness out there. And have a little faith in the modern musiciain/music producer to use these tools in creative and explorative ways. Be calm, haters, genuine music is far from dead.