Now Playing script?

It would be so useful to have an "iTunes-Now Playing" script inside MainStage. I can already control what song I'm playing, but can I see what song I'm playing inside MainStage? I'm trying to run click tracks via a separate Audio Interface (one for MS2, and the other for iTunes). I would use playback, however I need the click track to be separate from my MS2 output.
Here's a potential start for this script:
http://www.nada.kth.se/~larsc/work/C108694166/E20060203135343/index.html

If want you want is an actual click track that continues on clicking, you can always add a separate channel strip with the Klopfgeist (Metronome) instrument. Or if you wanted to customize your own sounds, you could do a fancy set up with Ultrabeat so that you can have different sounds for different parts of the beat and/or measure...

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