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Hey, I am trying to retrieve the currently playing song from iTunes, unfortunetly I find any other way to retrieve it except from COM.

I don't know though, how to deal with this one particular COM function though

So far I have this and it all works fine:

$iTunesx = ObjCreate("iTunes.application")
$iTunesx.PlayPause

It will open iTunes and then hit play/pause.

The one function though requires a parameter to store the track name in. Here is the documentation from the help file Apple provides of iTunes COM stuff:

HRESULT IiTunes::CurrentTrack ( [out, retval]IITTrack ** iTrack )

Returns the currently targeted track.

Parameters:

iTrack An IITTrack object corresponding to the currently targeted track. Will be set to NULL if there is no currently targeted track.

Return values:

S_OK The operation was successful.

S_FALSE There is no currently targeted track.

E_POINTER iTrack is NULL.

E_FAIL An unexpected error occurred.

How would I be able to retrieve this info through AutoIt?

(If you want the COM SDK stuff and help file for it: http://developer.apple.com/sdk/itunesvisualsdk.html)

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If you want try using memory functions.

I've found the now playing name/artist/album etc. using CheatEngine (memory searcher) before.

Haven't managed to get it into a string in autoit though yet

COM is probably better in the end but memory seems to be more versatile

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