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Itunes guitar tab finder

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takes the currently playing song on itunes and queries ultimate-guitar.com for tabs ... works best in cahoots with Quicksilver to set up hotkeys ( i use command+shift+f)

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tell application "iTunes"
	if player state is playing then
		set artist_name to artist of current track
		set track_name to name of current track
	else
		set artist_name to the artist of selection of browser window 1
		set track_name to the name of selection of browser window 1
	end if
end tell
 
set the artist_name to replace_chars(artist_name, " ", "+")
set the track_name to replace_chars(track_name, " ", "+")
 
tell application "Safari"
	activate
	set the URL of the front document to Â¬
		"http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/search.php?bn=" & artist_name & "&sn=" & track_name & "&type%5B%5D=1&type%5B%5D=3"
end tell
 
 
on replace_chars(this_text, search_string, replacement_string)
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to the search_string
	set the item_list to every text item of this_text
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to the replacement_string
	set this_text to the item_list as string
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
	return this_text
end replace_chars

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