itunesartwork

I'm trying to create an application that sets the desktop background to the album artwork of the current song playing in iTunes, but have come across an issue where my script can't read the album art of an Apple Music song unless it has been added to the user's music collection or playlist. Currently I am using this code to extract the album art. -- get the raw bytes of the artwork into a var tell application "iTunes" to tell artwork 1 of current track set srcBytes to raw data -- figure out the proper file extension if format is «class PNG » then set ext to ".png" else set ext to ".jpg" end if

This is related to posts like this: iTunes API: get 100x100 px icon of an App However since the method described in the accept answered there seems to be broken on a few, yet consistent, occasions, I'm gonna ask if there is a known workaround or other fix for this. How can we get artwork of an app in a requested size like 100x100 pixels, 150x150 pixels etc? The method is like this: Get the Apple ID of the app. For ANgry birds, it's 343200656 Use iTunes API to do a lookup. https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=343200656 Get the artworkUrl512, it's likely the same as artworkUrl100 these days but

(Note: I have solved this problem, but it took long enough that I'm posting question/answer here.) The Xcode build process "optimizes" my PNGs when building. This isn't usually a problem, but iTunesArtwork being processed in this way causes corrupts it so that iTunes not to be able to show it. How can I prevent this? You can read more about Xcode's PNG compression here: http://iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com/2008/10/iphone-optimized-pngs.html While you can turn off PNG optimization/compression entirely using "Compress PNG Files" in your project settings (it's visible only if the project's Base