What you need

• SDL
• SDL image
• SDL mixer
• SDL ttf

Inside you will find folders called SDL*.framework copy them to /Library/Frameworks/

There is hope

Before you go throw all the hassle try open Terminal and run sudo easy_install pygame.

If you get errors (likely) this means it isn’t fixed jet so lets do it.

Let’s get it done

• Download http://www.libsdl.org/tmp/SDL-1.2.tar.gz
• Double-click Xcode.tar.gz, it un-tars as Xcode
• Navigate to Xcode/SDL, double-click SDL.xcodeproj
• Project menu->Edit Project Settings
• Choose “Build” tab, then make sure Deployment_for_official.. is selected in the “configuration” dropdown
• Scroll all the way to the bottom, change SDKROOT_i386 and SDKROOT_ppc to /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk and close the project settings
• Make sure that “Use Base SDK”, Deployment_for_official_releases…, “Framework”, “Standard DMG” and “x86_64″ are selected in the Overview menu.
• Click Build (you will get warning, but it should compile with no errors)
• Copy the “SDL.framework” folder from “Xcode/build/” to “/Library/Frameworks”

Thanks to Scott Lyons.

We need SDL_image compiled for 64 Bit too. So:

• Download http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/release/SDL_image-1.2.10.zip
• Double-click Xcode.tar.gz, it un-tars as Xcode
• Navigate to Xcode, double-click SDL_Image*.xcodeproj
• Project menu->Edit Project Settings
• Choose “Build” tab, then make sure Deployment_.. is selected in the “configuration” dropdown
• Scroll all the way to the bottom, change SDKROOT_i386 and SDKROOT_ppc to /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk and close the project settings
• Make sure that “Mac OS X 10.6″, Deployment_…, “Framework”, “Create DMG” and “x86_64″ are selected in the Overview menu.
• Click Build (it should compile with no errors)
• Copy the “SDL.framework” folder from “Xcode/build/” to “/Library/Frameworks”

Now open Terminal and enter this:

export CC='/usr/bin/gcc-4.0' CFLAGS='-isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk -arch x86_64'
export LDFLAGS='-arch x86_64'
export ARCHFLAGS='-arch x86_64'
sudo easy_install pygame

I like creating dynamic playlists based on my song ratings. However rating songs manually kind of sucks, at least if you try to do it for all of them. So I came up with this little Apple Script, that rates tracks based on thaire played and skipped freqenzy.

Everyone feel free to use and customize this script.

Attention!

• Everytime the script runes it resets the played and skipped counter
• It allthow rates not rated songs with 2.5 stars
• It may override you’re rating
• all dialog messages are in german ( I may translated it if someone asks)

Installation: You may copy the script to

~/Library/iTunes/Scripts

so it appears inside the iTunes script menue.

If you like me you want this script automaticly on a regular basis. I enden up with a cron job -> thanks to jerry kindall.

update: The script now operates on a playlist called “rate me”. This is a huge performance boost because only this tracks are scaned. Like I said I like smart-lists so I made this one a smartlist too.

update 2:

• A friend of mine made some changes to the rate me list. Now it excludes videos in a more elegant way.
• I changed te rate alogorithem to be more robuster
• the script now moved to gist (git hub)

You are wellcome to leave a comment.