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I recently posted an AppleScript for X-Chat Aqua that displayed iTunes’ currently playing track. However, there were a few limitations and needed improvements, including:

• Complicated installation — made more so by the fact that X-Chat’s user commands menu kinda sucks.
• It’s not contained — you needed an AppleScript file lying around your system.
• Limited functionality — it was impossible to output the information in an action, for example.

I finally got around to digging a bit …

Update: This has been made obsolete by the much-improved plugin.

Courtesy of Joey Brooks, a.k.a. tunicwriter, here is an AppleScript script for X-Chat Aqua that you can use to show your currently playing iTunes song to the rest of the IRC chatroom. Of course, if iTunes isn’t running, a message is shown to that effect.

I want to make it clear that none of it is my code — all Joey’s. Direct all complaints to himSort of …