I thought I was going to have to create an Opentalk client/server setup in order to do a remote query of iTunes, but it turns out that AppleScript can do that directly. Say I want to talk to iTunes locally - I start my script like this:

tell application "iTunes"

If I want to do it across my network?

tell application "iTunes" of machine "eppc://username:password@machine_name"

And that's it - I can then send normal requests. The only other thing I needed to do is turn remote apple events on in the "Sharing" pane of system preferences. And that's it!

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