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I play all my music from iTunes now (most of it is on my FreeBSD box, though, served using mt-daapd). Anyway, time to update my current song script:

#!/opt/local/bin/ruby

require "rubygems"
require "net/ssh"
require "net/sftp"

script = <<SCRIPT
        tell application "iTunes"
                set {art, nm} to {artist of current track, name of current track}
                set disp to art & " - " & nm
                if disp is "" then
                        set disp to current stream title
                end if
                return disp
        end tell
SCRIPT

song = `osascript -ss -e '#{script}'`.chomp

exit if song == ""

`convert -fill black -pointsize 12 'label:#{song}' curr_song.png`

Net::SFTP.start("<host>", "<username>", "<password>") do |sftp|
        File.open("songs.txt", "a") { |f| f.write "#{song} (#{Time.now.to_s})\n" }
        ["songs.txt", "curr_song.png"].each { |file|
                sftp.put_file(file, "public_html/journal/#{file}")
        }       
end

Yeah, that’s a bit of AppleScript in there.

I’ve set it up to run every ten minutes. It also generates a list of all the songs I’ve played. I can probably use that data to figure not-so-useful patterns.