Script for slideshow of images in folder of playing now track in iTunes?

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I am wondering how easy it would be to write a script that would create a slideshow of images in the album folder of the track currently playing in iTunes. Because iTunes doesn't support the display of multiple artwork images I am looking for another method (I have a lot of albums with multiple images).
I would like to be able to view the images fullscreen on a secondary monitor whilst still having the ability to use my main monitor for other purposes (i.e. the main monitor wouldn't be blacked out).
In addition to this the following features would be nice, but not essential:
1. the script to extract the length of the song playing and the number of images in the folder and from this work out how long to display one image so that each image is displayed once for an equal length of time.
2. to have some text with info on song - artist - album etc. below the images in white text on black background.
3. transitions between the slides
Would such a script be feasible, even if just to cover the basics?
Thanks
Nick

This is what I have quickly whipped up. I did a little testing and found iPhoto is popping up a bunch of dialogs on importing duplicate images on the import. Perhaps there is a "synchronize" command I am missing or something ("import without force copy" doesn't seem to help) but the rest of the script works. I haven't worked in the looping for monitoring song change yet either. May be prettier with another stay open script which calls this one anyways.
I haven't done much with plist editing either. You can run the first set safely so long as iPhoto is closed, but changing length of slide while it is open through the plist is going to be quite risque. I can't find how to do it without plist or UI though. Anyways take a look and any outside help would be appreciated as well.
try
tell application "iTunes"
set currentAlbum to album of current track as text
set currentArtist to artist of current track as text
--set trackLength to time of current track --need to convert from 'mm:ss' to 'seconds' i believe
end tell
on error
display dialog "Try playing some music first." with buttons ("Cancel")
end try
set iPhotoAlbum to (currentArtist & "." & currentAlbum) as text
--set pathToMusic to "/Volumes/music 1/" & currentArtist & "/" & currentAlbum & "/"
(*SET UP IPHOTO DEFAULTS - dangerous to edit plist with iphoto open *)
--do shell script "defaults write com.apple.iPhoto SlideShowAutoPanAndZoom -string YES"
--do shell script "defaults write com.apple.iPhoto LoopSlides -string YES"
--do shell script "defaults write com.apple.iPhoto EnableBackgroundMusic -string NO"
(*SET UP DEFAULT SLIDE LENGTH - will need to move this down after importing*)
--tell application "iPhoto" to set picCount to count of items in album currentAlbum
--set slideLength to ((trackLength - 5) / picCount)
--do shell script "defaults write com.apple.iPhoto SlideDuration -int " &slideLength
tell application "iPhoto"
if not (exists (album iPhotoAlbum)) then new album name iPhotoAlbum
import from pathToMusic to album iPhotoAlbum
delay 5 --allowance for import as needed
start slideshow using album iPhotoAlbum
end tell

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