Scott Rossi wrote:
Recently, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
I have a project that involves iTunes. I want to extract locally a
users playlists and song/podcast list from their computer and do some
things in Rev. I then want to put/import some content back into iTunes.
I figure I can use Applescript on the Mac but I don't know about
iTunes for Windows. Is anyone familiar with doing things like this on
Windows?
I've done a little bit of iTunes control on Windows (see below).
What are the options available? On the extraction side can I use an
output from iTunes? Is there an XML file etc.?
On the importing side is it acceptable to just ask the user to drop/
import a folder into iTunes from my output? Or is there a way to send
a command to iTunes to tell it to do the import?
I am just starting this project and any and all help or input is
greatly appreciated.
As Sims suggested, you might be able to parse an XML file to get what you
need. If you're looking to *talk* to iTunes, you need to use COM, according
to Apple. An SDK is here:
http://developer.apple.com/sdk/itunescomsdk.html
If you build an external, please let me know. I've been interested in this
for months.
If you use the COM SDK, you can (obviously) write an external in C/C++
Alternatively, you can access it through a scripting language which
provides a COM interface, such as Javascript or (more interestingly, for
me) Python; you could then build either a command line utility or
socket-driven utility to provide Rev access to iTunes.
I'd be up for collaborating on a Python-based server combined with Rev
library to interface to it.
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