I told you so.

Now, we just need to see Front Row on the Mac Mini. And, of course, we still need to see actual feature movies available on the iTunes Music Store. But hey, we’re getting there.

Because, really, who wants to have to buffer them each time and watch them in windowed mode?

[Update: It was pointed out to me by someone on the Spymac forums that this seems to no longer work in iTunes 4.9. I verified and it appears that the person is correct. I would have replied in the forum, but the evil whorehoppers at Spymac wouldn’t let me register. Anyway, I went back to the original MacOSXHints.com article and found the problem: The temporary video files are now stored under ~/Library/Caches/QuickTime/downloads/xx/xx/, but it seems that the file is not a QuickTime movie anymore. Changing the shell script on the old AppleScript to lsof -wa -c iTunes +D ~/Library/ | grep -i qtch | head -1 | awk '{ print $9 }' does copy the file correctly, but it is not playable in QuickTime. With the advent of music videos being sold on the iTunes Music Store, I’m pretty much giving up on getting this one working. Sorry folks, but it’s just not worth my time anymore.]

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