Timestamp Your Show Notes
Use Audio Hijack Pro’s AppleScript interface to mark important interview moments in your show notes.
During the course of an interview or show, you will find that you want to take note of the current time so that later you can make some edits relative to that point. Thoughtfully Audio Hijack Pro [Hack #50] has included an AppleScript interface that you can use to get the current time of the recording.
In this hack I provide an AppleScript fragment that takes the current recording time from Audio Hijack Pro and places it into the clipboard so that you can paste it into your show notes.
The Code
Create a new file in the Script Editor, with this code:
tell application "Audio Hijack Pro" repeat with sess in sessions if sess is hijacked thenset theTime to current recording time of sess
set minuteCount to theTime / 60 as integer if (minuteCount * 60) > theTime then set minuteCount to minuteCount - 1 end if set secondCount to theTime mod 60 as integer if secondCount < 10 then set secondCount to "0" & secondCount as string end if set theTime to minuteCount & ":" & secondCountset the clipboard to (theTime as string)
end if end repeat end tell
Running the Hack
Pressing Play in the Script Editor will run the code. This takes the time of the current recording and puts it into the clipboard.
The important bits are where I get the current recording time, which is returned in seconds (and even fractions thereof). Then I convert that into a string in a really roundabout ...
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