On Jul 12, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Peter Boardman wrote: > print `osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" > if (exists process "iTunes") then tell application "iTunes" to if > player state is playing then get name of current track > end tell'` > > Why should this be? And is there a way of doing it? > It is because when OSAScript compiles the script it needs to launch iTunes. try this echo `osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" if (exists process "iTunes") then run script "tell application \"iTunes\" to if player state is playing then get name of current track" end tell'` Probably a bit slower but it won't launch itunes. It gets around the launching at compile time by making osaCompile view the iTunes portion of the script as a string and then having the main script compile and run it only if needed. -Mark