For about three weeks I have been lounging around my living room at school listening to Christmas music. Of course, as the majority of my time is spent using my Mac, I came across a great station under the iTunes radio category of “Holiday”. SomaFM, with their tag line as “Chilled holiday grooves and classic winter lounge tracks” offers a very interesting mix of beats. Although I love the classic songs that we all know, such as those from Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby and Chuck Berry, I have to admit- along with my college friends who chill it up with me in “The Christmas Zone” (aka my living room) – that there is something about SomaFM that makes the atmosphere very likable. Many of the tracks feature indie hip hop and dance beats, which sample those aforementioned classic Christmas tunes. Honestly, check it out, and if you don’t have iTunes, you can still stream from this url: SomaFM

Getting more to the point, I found myself liking so many of the songs that every other minute I was interrupting my programming or Maya workflow to record the song title from iTunes and write it down so that I could check it out later. Then it dawned on me! Why not write a cheesy AppleScript to grab this data for me and concatenate it line by line to a file? Furthermore, how about setting this script to fire every time I press a certain key combination by setting a trigger in Quicksilver? Well, it turns out that it works great, and I’m currently priming it up and possibly integrating it with Growl instead of the current confirmation which happens when the hotkey is pressed: OS X’s Alex speaks it aloud to me :/ Amusing but… ok maybe I’ll keep it as an option. Yeah so look for that soon. I’ll make another post when it’s available (or using this idea just write it yourself. It was pretty damned simple).