Accessing tunes from within STP or Toast

Question

When using Toast, or Motion, or Soundtrack Pro, etc media browser files provide access to iTunes for selecting whichever tune you want. Very nice. However I cannot see all my tunes. They're listed in Compilations, Albums, etc. But for the life of me I cannot figure out how to get the ones I want to appear in that browser window. For instance, in iTunes I imported 4 tracks. I selected them, created a playlist with those 4, and indicated they were a compilation. I also included them in an existing playlist that does somehow appear in the browser in outside apps (Motion, STP, Toast, etc). But no matter what I try, those 4 songs are not accessible from within Toast. I simply cannot see them to burn to a CD. They are songs that are legal, nothing shady from that department, but my eyes and brain are foggy about how/where those browsers are accessing the data. Any help appreciated.

Answer 1

There used to be something called high-level API. Abandoned ages ago because most of us preferred the "real thing" or went to scripting.
TextStyleRange like all the other Text scripting objects are second class citizens of the object model - they are created only on the fly as "proxy" objects. On the down side that means they consume memory until the document is released/saved/closed, and may fall apart (point to the wrong chunk of text) after any manipulation in preceding text. Besides the implementation is overkill by several degrees - each instance (I think it was kTextScriptingSuiteBoss) is the equivalent to a whole selection suite boss.
That said, you can use IScriptUtils to access kScriptInfoManagerBoss.
IScriptRequestHandler is aggregated there to execute script requests.
Be warned that constructing such script requests also has some learning curve, and the interfaces in the scripting area are extremely unstable across InDesign versions. Every other version renames methods, classes, adds or removes arguments. You will need plenty preprocessor conditions for cross-version code.
From the plugin side I only use that approach where the official interfaces do not work and the working interfaces (as used by scripting) are not exposed. One concrete case is TOP (type on path).
Dirk