hs.itunes

Controls for iTunes music player

API Overview

Constants - Useful values which cannot be changed

state_paused
state_playing
state_stopped

Functions - API calls offered directly by the extension

displayCurrentTrack
ff
getCurrentAlbum
getCurrentArtist
getCurrentTrack
getDuration
getPlaybackState
getPosition
getVolume
isPlaying
isRunning
next
pause
play
playpause
previous
rw
setPosition
setVolume
volumeDown
volumeUp

API Documentation

Constants

state_paused

Signature	`hs.itunes.state_paused`
Type	Constant
Description	Returned by `hs.itunes.getPlaybackState()` to indicates iTunes is paused
Source	extensions/itunes/itunes.lua line 17

state_playing

Signature	`hs.itunes.state_playing`
Type	Constant
Description	Returned by `hs.itunes.getPlaybackState()` to indicates iTunes is playing
Source	extensions/itunes/itunes.lua line 22

state_stopped

Signature	`hs.itunes.state_stopped`
Type	Constant
Description	Returned by `hs.itunes.getPlaybackState()` to indicates iTunes is stopped
Source	extensions/itunes/itunes.lua line 27

Functions

displayCurrentTrack

Signature	`hs.itunes.displayCurrentTrack()`
Type	Function
Description	Displays information for current track on screen
Parameters	None
Returns	None
Source	extensions/itunes/itunes.lua line 108

ff

Signature	`hs.itunes.ff()`
Type	Function
Description	Skips the current playback forwards by 5 seconds
Parameters	None
Returns	None
Source	extensions/itunes/itunes.lua line 304

getCurrentAlbum

Signature	`hs.itunes.getCurrentAlbum() -> string or nil`
Type	Function
Description	Gets the name of the current Album
Parameters	None
Returns	A string containing the Album of the current track, or nil if an error occurred
Source	extensions/itunes/itunes.lua line 137

getCurrentArtist

Signature	`hs.itunes.getCurrentArtist() -> string or nil`
Type	Function
Description	Gets the name of the current Artist
Parameters	None
Returns	A string containing the Artist of the current track, or nil if an error occurred
Source	extensions/itunes/itunes.lua line 124

getCurrentTrack

Signature	`hs.itunes.getCurrentTrack() -> string or nil`
Type	Function
Description	Gets the name of the current track
Parameters	None
Returns	A string containing the name of the current track, or nil if an error occurred
Source	extensions/itunes/itunes.lua line 150

getDuration

Signature	`hs.itunes.getDuration()`
Type	Function
Description	Gets the duration (in seconds) of the current song
Parameters	None
Returns	The number of seconds long the current song is, 0 if no song is playing
Source	extensions/itunes/itunes.lua line 290

getPlaybackState

Signature	`hs.itunes.getPlaybackState()`
Type	Function
Description	Gets the current playback state of iTunes
Parameters	None
Returns	A string containing one of the following constants: `hs.itunes.state_stopped` `hs.itunes.state_paused` `hs.itunes.state_playing`
Source	extensions/itunes/itunes.lua line 163

getPosition

Signature	`hs.itunes.getPosition()`
Type	Function
Description	Gets the playback position (in seconds) of the current song
Parameters	None
Returns	A number indicating the current position in the song
Source	extensions/itunes/itunes.lua line 264

getVolume

Signature	`hs.itunes.getVolume()`
Type	Function
Description	Gets the current iTunes volume setting
Parameters	None
Returns	A number, between 1 and 100, containing the current iTunes playback volume
Source	extensions/itunes/itunes.lua line 216

isPlaying

Signature	`hs.itunes.isPlaying()`
Type	Function
Description	Returns whether iTunes is currently playing
Parameters	None
Returns	A boolean value indicating whether iTunes is currently playing a track, or nil if an error occurred (unknown player state). Also returns false if the application is not running
Source	extensions/itunes/itunes.lua line 192

isRunning

Signature	`hs.itunes.isRunning()`
Type	Function
Description	Returns whether iTunes is currently open. Most other functions in hs.itunes will automatically start the application, so this function can be used to guard against that.
Parameters	None
Returns	A boolean value indicating whether the iTunes application is running.
Source	extensions/itunes/itunes.lua line 179

Signature	`hs.itunes.next()`
Type	Function
Description	Skips to the next itunes track
Parameters	None
Returns	None
Source	extensions/itunes/itunes.lua line 82

pause

Signature	`hs.itunes.pause()`
Type	Function
Description	Pauses the current iTunes track
Parameters	None
Returns	None
Source	extensions/itunes/itunes.lua line 69

play

Signature	`hs.itunes.play()`
Type	Function
Description	Plays the current iTunes track
Parameters	None
Returns	None
Source	extensions/itunes/itunes.lua line 56

playpause

Signature	`hs.itunes.playpause()`
Type	Function
Description	Toggles play/pause of current iTunes track
Parameters	None
Returns	None
Source	extensions/itunes/itunes.lua line 43

Signature	`hs.itunes.previous()`
Type	Function
Description	Skips to previous itunes track
Parameters	None
Returns	None
Source	extensions/itunes/itunes.lua line 95

rw

Signature	`hs.itunes.rw()`
Type	Function
Description	Skips the current playback backwards by 5 seconds
Parameters	None
Returns	None
Source	extensions/itunes/itunes.lua line 315

setPosition

Signature	`hs.itunes.setPosition(pos)`
Type	Function
Description	Sets the playback position of the current song
Parameters	pos - A number indicating the playback position (in seconds) to skip to
Returns	None
Source	extensions/itunes/itunes.lua line 275

setVolume

Signature	`hs.itunes.setVolume(vol)`
Type	Function
Description	Sets the iTunes playback volume
Parameters	vol - A number, between 1 and 100
Returns	None
Source	extensions/itunes/itunes.lua line 227

volumeDown

Signature	`hs.itunes.volumeDown()`
Type	Function
Description	Decreases the iTunes playback volume by 5
Parameters	None
Returns	None
Source	extensions/itunes/itunes.lua line 253

volumeUp

Signature	`hs.itunes.volumeUp()`
Type	Function
Description	Increases the iTunes playback volume by 5
Parameters	None
Returns	None
Source	extensions/itunes/itunes.lua line 242