Powershell scripts for itunes

howdy y'all,
i've recently been learning windows powershell. it's part of every win7 install and i think it's included in vista. for xp, you hafta download it from ms.
anyway, i have a script or two that i was playing with and wondered if someone else was interested the same. perhaps someone who really understands programming could improve my amateur coding. (grin)
the next post has the 1st script.
take care,
lee

howdy y'all,
this one updates song ratings ...
IF
- rating is zero
-- AND playedcount is greater than or equal to playedcount threshold
OR
- rating is zero
-- AND skippedcount is greater than or equal to skippedcount threshold
-- AND playedcount less than playedcount threshold
i figure that if i've skipped a song more often than i have played it and i've skipped it at least a certain number of times, then i pro'ly don't care too much for it. (grin)
since i can't find a way to correctly post CODE, i posted a link to the stored file. that's here ...
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5952017/Itunes_Set-Default-Rating.ps1
there is a lot of extra stuff in there that can be removed. the "save log file to system temp folder" and the "what's happening now" stuff, for instance.
other than the purely feedback-oriented, yes-something-really-is-happening stuff, can you see a way to make it work better?
take care,
lee

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