Scripting: How To Tell Between Audio and Video Track?

When I create a collection of tracks from the main library and iterate through them, I get everything (in my case, video and audio tracks - no podcasts or TV shows as of yet). In checking the "Kind" class, they all have a value of "1".
How can I tell if a track I'm looking at is audio or video? Also, when I do start downloading podcasts and/or TV shows, is there a way to differentiate them also?
Thanks

chillpill
**** so much for that on the Western Digitals. The interface is USB3
goodness, yes, youve got one of those OLD WD drives that has the controller board AND USB all as ONE SINGLE UNIT
write that HD off.
your "classique" HD here:
http://karlsbakk.net/bilder/WD10TMVW/wd10tmvw-2.jpg
tjk Wisconsin
So being USB3 doesn't tell us anything at all.
Yeah it does, it tells me its one of those OLD HD that was made with the "lets save 2 cents and make it all one piece" philosophical designs.

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