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Application ID's in Soundflow

By Andrew Sherman @Andrew_Sherman
    2021-03-20 07:30:02.856Z

    Would it be good to have a universal, single place to define various different Applications and their ID's? I presume that sometimes an app ID changes when it updates (example Adobe Premiere is currently "com.adobe.PremierePro.14" but this is likely to change when Adobe updates it.

    Since my various scripts reference this ID in different places, I'd have to update the scripts wherever the ID appears. If there was a way of updating it once in a master location, and then the ID is the correct current ID for wherever it's used in commands, surfaces or triggers, So for the user, they just need to reference adobePremiere and it would always be the correct ID, once they have updated it in that single place.

    Is there a way to do this currently or is it a new feature request?

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    1. Christian Scheuer @chrscheuer2021-03-20 10:47:24.152Z

      SoundFlow is likely to add version agnostic app bundle references in future updates, when we increase general support for more apps.

      Until that, I'd recommend that you look into SoundFlow modules, where you can re-use code between different scripts:

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      1. AAndrew Sherman @Andrew_Sherman
          2021-03-20 10:51:28.415Z

          That looks very useful, thanks

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            AAndrew Sherman @Andrew_Sherman
              2021-03-20 11:44:15.034Z

              Version agnostic references would be great. it might also be useful to have the same kind of functionality for the app path, in relation to launching it etc.

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                AAndrew Sherman @Andrew_Sherman
                  2023-12-11 10:29:25.325Z

                  Hi Christian, just checking if there is any further progress on global application IDs? I have updated my Adobe apps and they all have new IDs (eg com.Adobe.PremierePro.24), and some of my commands use keyboard triggers. Now I have to go and update all of my keyboard triggers (I don't think I can use modules in this case).

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                  1. Christian Scheuer @chrscheuer2023-12-11 10:40:04.224Z

                    Hi Andrew,

                    Auch yea that sucks. We'll need to implement this on a per-application basis since they all use different versioning schemes wrt. bundle IDs (the best ones don't change their bundle IDs at all, obviously).
                    Besides Premiere, what other apps are you experiencing this with?

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                    1. AAndrew Sherman @Andrew_Sherman
                        2023-12-11 11:11:43.197Z

                        Hi Christian, I thought the Adobe ones all had name changes, but it turns out it's just Premiere, Bridge & Media Encoder, although even they don't have a consistent naming structure.

                        com.Adobe.PremierePro.24
                        com.adobe.ame.application.24
                        com.adobe.bridge14
                        com.adobe.AfterEffects
                        com.adobe.illustrator
                        com.adobe.Photoshop
                        com.adobe.lightroomCC

                        com.blackmagic-design.DaVinciResolve
                        com.ableton.live
                        net.whatsapp.WhatsApp
                        com.microsoft.VSCode

                        Perhaps there could also be some kind of global application path for apps that get updated (eg I have an application launcher that needs the paths, which change when the app is updated). if we could update ID and path in one place, then it updates everywhere else, in commands etc.

                        eg path:
                        /Applications/Adobe Premiere Pro 2024/Adobe Premiere Pro 2024.app

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                        1. Christian Scheuer @chrscheuer2023-12-11 11:36:28.267Z

                          Thanks, Andrew. Are you using triggers with the AME and Bridge apps?

                          Wrt global app paths for launching stuff etc. that's not easy to build in a way that would work for all users, but you can easily use modules to accomplish this.

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                          1. Christian Scheuer @chrscheuer2023-12-11 11:37:59.117Z

                            You can also make a script that looks for an app starting with "Adobe Premiere Pro " and locates the matching one, then launches it.

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                            1. AAndrew Sherman @Andrew_Sherman
                                2023-12-11 11:39:01.094Z

                                Thanks for the suggestions, I'll look into it

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