Neat little iTunes apple script for the Mac users

This Applescript allows you to search Rhapsody for any track in your iTunes library.
Click here to see a screenshot.

Go to you home directory -> Library -> iTunes and create a directory called Scripts.
Place the script into the Scripts directory.
Restart iTunes and notice “Scripts” has been added to your menu bar.
Play or highlight a track and then pick “Search In Rhapsody” in the Scripts menu.
Click here for a screenshot of the menu.
A dialogue will give you the choice of searching on the artist, album or track.
Pick one and watch Safari start up and run your search for you.

Works on MacOS 10.3+ and any version iTunes.

Comments

[Steve]

NEAT indeed. But it would be COOL if I could select tracks in the iTunes Music Store, and then click the script so I could find it in Rhapsody.

[Anthony Baker]

I'm in agreement with Steve here. I recently signed up for an Unlimited subscription to Rhapsody as I watched my iTunes purchases go through the roof (music whore that I am). Love OS X over the PC, but am one of those folks who wishes Apple would offer a subscription-based service. As they don't, and Rhapsody works on OS X, here I am. And happy, too.

The downside of Rhapsody, however, is that there are no star reviews of albums akin to iTunes. This, btw, was always a beef I had with iTunes from the beginning, but am now thrilled that they offer them. Makes a big difference in finding music I like.

You folks do a great job already with listing influences and peers, but without customer ratings, there's a huge information gap that I currently try to fill via checking for albums/artists on iTunes and then checking Rhapsody or using Amazon for the same data.

Would also be great if you could include Audioscrobbler support. One brilliant feature LastFM offers (though they don't highlight it enough, IMHO) is the ability to look up an artist and see what songs fans or listeners of that artist are listening to, based on Audioscrobbler data. I've found a ton of new artists and albums hunting that info down.

Again, great job as it stands.