iTunes for windows

[Alex Tweedly]

Scott Rossi wrote:

>Recently, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
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>>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.
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>>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?
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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.?
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>>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?
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>>I am just starting this project and any and all help or input is
>>greatly appreciated.
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>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
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>If you build an external, please let me know.  I've been interested in this
>for months.
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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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