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    copied!<p>I've learned that iTunes XML file is actually a plist, and instead of trying to parse the raw XML, I could use property lists.</p> <p>I'm able to access the "Tracks" section, but I'm able to unable to do anything simple like extracting a track name. Admittedly, I'm stumbling around a bit, but this is the code I've gotten to so far: </p> <pre><code>tell application "System Events" tell property list file property_file tell contents set my_tracks to value of property list item "Tracks" repeat with t in my_tracks set theName to value of property list item "Name" of t display dialog theName end repeat end tell end tell end tell </code></pre> <p>Any pointers as to what I'm doing wrong?</p> <p>If it helps, sample XML:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt; &lt;!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple. com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"&gt; &lt;plist version="1.0"&gt; &lt;dict&gt; &lt;key&gt;Major Version&lt;/key&gt;&lt;integer&gt;1&lt;/integer&gt; &lt;key&gt;Minor Version&lt;/key&gt;&lt;integer&gt;1&lt;/integer&gt; &lt;key&gt;Application Version&lt;/key&gt;&lt;string&gt;9.0.2&lt;/string&gt; ... &lt;dict&gt; &lt;key&gt;2471&lt;/key&gt; &lt;dict&gt; &lt;key&gt;Name&lt;/key&gt;&lt;string&gt;Check The Rhime&lt;/string&gt; &lt;key&gt;Artist&lt;/key&gt;&lt;string&gt;A Tribe Called Quest&lt;/string&gt; ... &lt;/dict&gt; &lt;key&gt;2473&lt;/key&gt; &lt;dict&gt; &lt;key&gt;Name&lt;/key&gt;&lt;string&gt;A Short History of Nearly Everyth ing (Unabridged), Part 1&lt;/string&gt; &lt;key&gt;Artist&lt;/key&gt;&lt;string&gt;Bill Bryson&lt;/string&gt; ... &lt;/dict&gt; </code></pre>
 

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