Re: Finding user's Music folder (and others)?
On Sep 17, 2009, at 9:32 PM, Graham Cox wrote:
It's also pretty common to relocate it - don't assume it's unusual.
Quite a few people like to keep their music on an external drive so
whatever it is you're doing, if you assume ~/Music/, it'll fail in
those cases, as you realise.
Yes! I've sent bug reports to so many developers of iTunes utilities
that hardcode this :P
Probably better to work out how to obtain iTunes setting - maybe by
peeking at its prefs.
Just use NSUserDefaults:
$ defaults read com.apple.iApps
{
iTunesRecentDatabasePaths = (
/Users/Shared/snej/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music Library.xml
);
iTunesRecentDatabases = (
file://localhost/Users/Shared/snej/Music/iTunes/iTunes%20Music%20Library.xml
);
}
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Finding user's Music folder (and others)?
I need to find the iTunes Music Library.xml file, which I know to be in the iTunes music folder under the iTunes directory. Is there an API call to get the user's Music folder? I realize iTunes allows you to specify another location for the music folder, so perhaps I need to ask iTunes for it directly, but for the time being finding the Music folder is a good start. Generally speaking, how do I find the special user directories? I know about NSHomeDirectory(). Searching Google and the docs for things like find folder special directories fsfindfolder turned up a ton of pretty useless stuff. TIA, Rick ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: SOLVED Finding user's Music folder (and others)?
Sigh, sorry. I looked at NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains() and dismissed it without looking more closely. That's what I needed. Sorry for the noise. On Sep 17, 2009, at 18:52:28, Rick Mann wrote: I need to find the iTunes Music Library.xml file, which I know to be in the iTunes music folder under the iTunes directory. Is there an API call to get the user's Music folder? I realize iTunes allows you to specify another location for the music folder, so perhaps I need to ask iTunes for it directly, but for the time being finding the Music folder is a good start. Generally speaking, how do I find the special user directories? I know about NSHomeDirectory(). Searching Google and the docs for things like find folder special directories fsfindfolder turned up a ton of pretty useless stuff. TIA, Rick ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/rmann%40latencyzero.com This email sent to rm...@latencyzero.com ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Finding user's Music folder (and others)?
Hmm. I take it back. I can't get code calling NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains() to compile. NSArray* paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains (NSMusicDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, false); error: 'NSMusicDirectory' was not declared in this scope What do I need to do to get NSMusicDirectory? TIA. On Sep 17, 2009, at 19:03:47, Rick Mann wrote: Sigh, sorry. I looked at NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains() and dismissed it without looking more closely. That's what I needed. Sorry for the noise. On Sep 17, 2009, at 18:52:28, Rick Mann wrote: I need to find the iTunes Music Library.xml file, which I know to be in the iTunes music folder under the iTunes directory. Is there an API call to get the user's Music folder? I realize iTunes allows you to specify another location for the music folder, so perhaps I need to ask iTunes for it directly, but for the time being finding the Music folder is a good start. Generally speaking, how do I find the special user directories? I know about NSHomeDirectory(). Searching Google and the docs for things like find folder special directories fsfindfolder turned up a ton of pretty useless stuff. TIA, Rick ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/rmann%40latencyzero.com This email sent to rm...@latencyzero.com ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/rmann%40latencyzero.com This email sent to rm...@latencyzero.com ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Finding user's Music folder (and others)?
On Sep 17, 2009, at 10:03 PM, Rick Mann wrote: Hmm. I take it back. I can't get code calling NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains() to compile. NSArray* paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains (NSMusicDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, false); error: 'NSMusicDirectory' was not declared in this scope What do I need to do to get NSMusicDirectory? Are you building with the 10.6 SDK? NSMusicDirectory is available in 10.6 and later, according to the docs and the header file (NSPathUtilities.h). ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Finding user's Music folder (and others)?
On Sep 17, 2009, at 20:15:43, Michael Babin wrote: On Sep 17, 2009, at 10:03 PM, Rick Mann wrote: Hmm. I take it back. I can't get code calling NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains() to compile. NSArray* paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains (NSMusicDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, false); error: 'NSMusicDirectory' was not declared in this scope What do I need to do to get NSMusicDirectory? Are you building with the 10.6 SDK? NSMusicDirectory is available in 10.6 and later, according to the docs and the header file (NSPathUtilities.h). Well, I thought I had, but I tried again just to be sure. That's the trick. I just overlooked the line that said 10.6. Thanks! -- Rick ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Finding user's Music folder (and others)?
On Sep 17, 2009, at 8:18 PM, Rick Mann wrote:
On Sep 17, 2009, at 20:15:43, Michael Babin wrote:
On Sep 17, 2009, at 10:03 PM, Rick Mann wrote:
Hmm. I take it back. I can't get code calling
NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains() to compile.
NSArray* paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains
(NSMusicDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, false);
error: 'NSMusicDirectory' was not declared in this scope
What do I need to do to get NSMusicDirectory?
Are you building with the 10.6 SDK? NSMusicDirectory is available
in 10.6 and later, according to the docs and the header file
(NSPathUtilities.h).
Well, I thought I had, but I tried again just to be sure. That's
the trick. I just overlooked the line that said 10.6. Thanks!
And if you want to get that path for earlier OS versions, you could
use FSFindFolder:
NSString* musicFolderPath = nil;
FSRef musicFolderRef;
if (FSFindFolder(kUserDomain, kMusicDocumentsFolderType,
kCreateFolder, musicFolderRef) == noErr)
{
NSURL* musicFolderURL = [(NSURL*)CFURLCreateFromFSRef(NULL,
musicFolderRef) autorelease];
musicFolderPath = [musicFolderURL path];
}
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Re: Finding user's Music folder (and others)?
On 18/09/2009, at 11:52 AM, Rick Mann wrote: I realize iTunes allows you to specify another location for the music folder, so perhaps I need to ask iTunes for it directly, but for the time being finding the Music folder is a good start. It's also pretty common to relocate it - don't assume it's unusual. Quite a few people like to keep their music on an external drive so whatever it is you're doing, if you assume ~/Music/, it'll fail in those cases, as you realise. Probably better to work out how to obtain iTunes setting - maybe by peeking at its prefs. --Graham ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Finding user's Music folder (and others)?
For sure, and we will be. I suspect one can ask iTunes via an AppleEvent, but looking at the prefs is not a bad suggestion. I just needed a reasonable solution that was easy to get to in the meantime. Thanks. On Sep 17, 2009, at 21:32:00, Graham Cox wrote: On 18/09/2009, at 11:52 AM, Rick Mann wrote: I realize iTunes allows you to specify another location for the music folder, so perhaps I need to ask iTunes for it directly, but for the time being finding the Music folder is a good start. It's also pretty common to relocate it - don't assume it's unusual. Quite a few people like to keep their music on an external drive so whatever it is you're doing, if you assume ~/Music/, it'll fail in those cases, as you realise. Probably better to work out how to obtain iTunes setting - maybe by peeking at its prefs. --Graham ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
