How do I copy the location of a track to the “Comments” section in iTunes?

Question

I dont understand why this is not working. If anybody knows how to resolve this issue:

tell application "iTunes"
  copy location of track 1 of playlist "Test" to Comments
end tell

Applescript does now show an error but when I see in iTunes, the "Comments" field is still empty.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Because you copy the location to the Comments variable.

Here's how to put the location in the comment tag.

tell application "iTunes"
  tell track 1 of playlist "Test" to set comment to (its location as text)
  -- or set comment  of track 1 of playlist "Test" to (get location of track 1 of playlist "Test") as text
end tell

Answer 2

This should do the trick:

tell application "iTunes"
    set theLocation to location of track 1 of playlist "Test"
    set the comment of track 1 of playlist "Test" to POSIX path of theLocation as string
end tell

The as string is the key here, otherwise the types are incompatible.

If you want it as a one liner, you can do:

tell application "iTunes" to copy the POSIX path of (location of track 1 of playlist "Test" as string) to comment of track 1 of playlist "Test"

If you want the old Mac style paths with colons (Macintosh HD:Users:rob:Music) instead of Unix style (/Users/rob/Music), you can remove the POSIX path of parts of either of those.