itunes_currently_playing.py

'''
This script grabs the currently playing song from Itunes and generates a dict with the song details such as name, artist, album, genre etc.

You need the appscript library 
'''
from appscript import * 
it = app('iTunes')
tags = ['name', 'artist','album','genre','played_date','duration']
if it.isrunning():
    state = it.player_state.get()
    if state.name == 'playing':
        song_details = [eval('it.current_track.' + tag + '.get()') for tag in tags]
        song_details = dict(zip(tags, song_details))
        try:
            z = song_details['played_date'].name
            song_details['played_date'] = ''
        except:
            pass
        print song_details
    else: 
        print "Itunes is currently:", state.name