Use Keyboard Shortcuts to Rate Songs in iTunes

AppleScript is terribly under-used on my computer, so I poked around a little after the last tip and thought about what I could do. I thought about using Scripts in the Script Menu along with my favorite OS feature: assigning arbitrary keyboard shortcuts to menu items. Together, it appeared that they could accomplish much, yes, but what to try?

Well, I love how you can set the rating of a group of photos in iPhoto to five stars with ??5, and have always wanted the same for iTunes. So, I tried it.

I started by making an Automator action as follows:

• Get selected iTunes items
• Run AppleScript
  

  
  on run {input, parameters}
  	repeat with theTrack in input
  		try
  			tell application "iTunes"
  				set the rating of theTrack to 20
  			end tell
  		end try
  	end repeat
  end run

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