On Jan 4, 2008, at 7:48 PM, Sander Tekelenburg wrote: > At 00:18 +0100 UTC, on 2008-01-05, Sven Radke wrote: > > [...] > >> The Finder shows artist, year and album from mp3 files. So I hope >> there's a way to "steal" this information... > > Finder probably calls QuickTime for that. > And quicktime can be called through system events. tell application "System Events" to {Name, full text} of every annotation of contents of QuickTime file ("" & (choose file)) {"Full Name", "Artist", "Composer", "Album", "Track", "Creation Date", "Comment"} {"Happy New Year", "Spike Jones & His City Slickers", "Eddie Brandt, Freddy Morgan", "Dr. Demento: Holidays in Dementia", "16/17", "1948", "album 1995"}