Using Out-Gridview to interactively select one item from a collection

I’m not sure I’ve ever had cause to do this before…but it’s quite handy.

I’m writing an add-on to Spotishell, a powershell module for mucking about with Spotify. I’m searching for a song and then I want to manually select the one that I think is the best version to include on a playlist.

Out-Gridview turns out to be perfect for this.

The code is:

$SelectedTrack = $CollectionOfTracks | 
select-object track,
        artist,
        album,
        released, 
        trackid | 
Out-GridView -OutputMode Single

This returns the one track into the $SelectedTrack variable.