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I'm trying to put together a rule that looks at a particular folder in iTunes to see whether a file exists and has been added more than a day ago and, if so, delete it. I don't have a problem with the basic rule, but I'm wondering whether anyone has a good applescript to do the deletion (rather than simply deleting the file, which won't let iTunes know to remove the file from its list of tracks).

(This is designed to remove voicemails after I listen to them.)

Thanks,
Tony

This is an applescript that should work for your situation:

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set removeTotal to 0
tell application "iTunes"
   set mainLibrary to library playlist 1
   set totalTracks to count of file tracks of mainLibrary
   with timeout of 10 seconds
      repeat with t from totalTracks to 1 by -1
         try
            set this_track to file track t of mainLibrary
            if this_track's location is missing value and this_track's duration is missing value then
               removeTotal = removeTotal + 1
               delete this_track
            end if
         end try
      end repeat
   end timeout
end tell

Essentially, this script checks for anything in the iTunes library (books, music, movies, etc.) whose duration element is null. Even for books, the duration element returns a zero value if the file is present.

Notice the removeTotal variable is currently not used. You could export this as a token to Hazel in order to send an alert that "19 items have been removed from the iTunes library."

Hope this helps!


EDIT - To clarify, this will remove a file from the iTunes library database only. You should physically delete the file from the iTunes directories before this script is run.

Thanks! Does this have any quirky side effects if all of my songs are on iTunes Match (i.e., generally not on my computer's hard drive)?

It shouldn't, but I haven't tested since I don't use iTunes Match.