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So, I'm trying to become more productive by turning stuff I don't have time to read into something I can listen to in the car. I created the following Automator script, but every time I run it, it crashes.
Here's the first part of the problem reporter. Interestingly, if I use a different action to get the text (e.g. take it from the frontmost TextEdit window), no problems whatsoever. The text is converted to text and added to the playlist. Does anyone else have this problem or know how to fix it ?
Process: Automator [21828]
Path: /Applications/Automator.app/Contents/MacOS/Automator
Identifier: com.apple.Automator
Version: 2.2 (329)
Build Info: Automator-329000000000000~6
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [165]
Date/Time: 2011-09-14 21:32:36.607 +1000
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.7.1 (11B26)
Report Version: 9
Interval Since Last Report: 179515 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 4
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 568 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 2
Anonymous UUID: F836C22F-4B69-45A7-BA73-7722E5A27255
Crashed Thread: 7
Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Application Specific Information:
objc[21828]: garbage collection is ON
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[NSConcreteAttributedString getCharacters:range:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x4010e00c0'
Cheers,
Steve

I didn't test the Encode to MPEG step, but a simple workflow with the first two actions seems to work fine here.
Something else is amiss.
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