Share the current playing song or one selected song from iTunes to your Dropbox public folder. A public link will be copied to the clip board for instant sharing. Written in applescript, so Mac only.
DISCLAIMER: Use at your own risk and responsibility. The author of this script does not take any responsibility for its usage by other persons than himself.
Open itunes2dropbox.applescript in the Applescript editor and save
as an <yourdropboxnumberhere>.scpt in some directory of your
convenience. Insert your unique Dropbox number. This number can be
found as described below.
If you don't have a public folder on your Dropbox account, visit
this link. To get your
unique Dropbox number, put a file in this directory on your local
Dropbox and right-click this file. Select Dropbox > Copy Public link.
This link will look something like
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3914693/fileyoujustshared.txt.
The number in my case is 3914693, your number will be different.
In case a song is playing in iTunes and the script is executed, the song will be copied to your public Dropbox folder. If iTunes isn't playing, a selected song will be copied. Only one song should be selected. The public link will be copied to the clipboard for sharing with your friends.
The script assumes the path to your Dropbox folder is the default that Dropbox uses during installation. To change it, change the following lines in the script accordingly:
set myPath to (path to home folder) as string
set myPath to myPath & "Dropbox:Public:"
I use this script with Alfred's HotKey feature and have put it under Cmd-Option-S.
Thanks to @instantypo, a friendly dogmatic Flemmish Catholic convert on Twitter, who gave me the idea to write this script. My first Applescript experience on my first Macbook.