Apple Event Timeout

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.Begin Auto-rating (any playlist)
2.Wait a while
3.Error message will show up.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected output is, presumably, the rating of tracks. Instead, there is an
AppleEvent timeout, -1712.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
I'm using 1.5.7, in which this is presumably fixed, according to the change
log, but it doesn't seem to be. I'm using the most recent version of Snow
Leopard.

Please provide any additional information below.
I was, up until today, using 1.4.2, which worked rather well, though I
thought I should update. I guess that was the wrong choice? Let me know if
I can give you any more information that might be helpful. I do have a
rather large library, 17000+ songs, so that might contribute?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by DanGaleR...@gmail.com on 23 Apr 2010 at 5:53

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I had the same issue, also on Snow Leopard. Had to uninstall because Autorate 
was
unusable. But I just downloaded 1.5.6 and that version works great.

Original comment by skya...@gmail.com on 7 May 2010 at 10:33

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1.5.7 dones work for me, timeout events...

Original comment by buhr...@gmail.com on 24 May 2010 at 8:12

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Hi, I have just installed 1.5.7 on my iTunes library and I get the timeout 
errors. Is my library too large? it is around 97GB

Original comment by robo...@gmail.com on 10 Jun 2010 at 1:21

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Still get the timeout problem. Have a library with 18,000+ songs. Doesn't work.

Original comment by hexif...@gmail.com on 15 Aug 2010 at 10:43

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Try doing nothing else while running AutoRate, works fine with me. 19,000+ 
Songs, 200GiB
Regards

Original comment by PietBla...@gmail.com on 29 Sep 2010 at 10:02

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The possibility of a timeout increases as the number of songs whose rating is 
actually getting changed increases. The timeouts are casued by iTunes not 
responding well to many very fast instructions to make changes to its database.

Try rating less of your tracks at once by making playlists witha  subset and 
only rating those. If you can do an analysis on the whole library, then it 
doesn;t matter if you rate 1 or all tracks, the rating for that particular 
track will be the same.

If you can;t run an analysis ont he whole thing, then thats a bigger issue.

Try the new version (1.6) and let me know the results.

Original comment by brandon.mol@gmail.com on 3 Nov 2010 at 6:57

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I have an iMac 10.6.6 & am using autorate v. 1.6 when I try to analyze a 
playlist containing 25 tracks or my entire music collection I still get the 
-1712 time out error.

Original comment by taodu...@gmail.com on 16 Jan 2011 at 7:01

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I have the same issue with the -1712 time out error. iMac 10.6.6 with a very 
large iTunes library. I'm trying to use autorate 1.6

Original comment by car...@mac.com on 21 Jan 2011 at 4:49

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Using Autorate V. 1.6, analyzing a 14 track playlist, of which one track is 
already rated, and I get the timeout error reported by everyone else.  I'm on 
iTunes 10.1.2 (17) and on the latest OS version as well.  My iTunes library is 
>244.5 GB in size and has over 49,000 tracks.  After trying Autorate on the 
entire library a number of times, I finally checked on a 14 track playlist with 
the same results. I'm willing to help test any bug fixes for the software 
author. I can be reached at mmacygin at gmail dot com

Original comment by mmacy...@gmail.com on 11 Feb 2011 at 8:53

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There is a setting in AutoRate.applescript, setting the timeout to 30. I think, 
a small change here could help.

Unfortunately i am not familiar with Xcode, so i can't test this. The 
applescript does not work as a standalone version.

Original comment by simon...@gmail.com on 6 Nov 2012 at 4:51

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I'm getting the same error -1712.  I have limited to a playlist of 200 songs.  
Timeout error within a minute.  

Original comment by fcmarri...@gmail.com on 5 Feb 2013 at 3:05