itunes-sdk

ITunes SDK: Loading shared music

I've been messing with the iTunes SDK under .NET 3.5 with C#, but I have not found a way to load a shared music library from another computer on the network. Does anyone know how I can access shared music from the iTunes SDK? If this is not possible, then can anyone suggest alternatives? ...

how do i catch itunes events?

i have added this code iTunes.OnPlayerPlayingTrackChangedEvent += new _IiTunesEvents_OnPlayerPlayingTrackChangedEventEventHandler(iTunes_OnPlayerPlayingTrackChangedEvent); and this code private void iTunes_OnPlayerPlayingTrackChangedEvent(object iTrack) { if (iTunes.CurrentTrack != null) { if (...

iPhone: Writability of the Documents directory

Is there a way to write files to this directory remotely? I'm hoping it's possible to do via iTunes or whenever the iPhone is connected to a Mac/PC via USB. Could this be done with an iTunes plugin? If all else fails, is there an easy way to setup a WebDAV server on the iPhone? Thanks. ...

Need an explanation on iTunes COM persistent ID. Is the ID for a track same when its transferred to an iPod?

I am writing a JScript script with iTunes COM api for updating ratings and played count from the iPod database back into iTunes Library. In order to do so, the script should be able to recognize the songs that were transferred from this iTunes Library, so that it can read the ratings data for the track on iPod and update the correspondin...

accessing enums in a COM object [jscript]

How do I access an enum that is defined within a COM interface? Specifically, I've created a new instance of an iTunes.Application: var iTunesApp = WScript.CreateObject("iTunes.Application"); ... and I want to be able to use certain enums defined within the COM iTunesTrackCOM.idl File Reference [...] Enumerations [...] ...

Accessing a Track Name in iTunes via iTunes' plist (XML) File

I've learned that iTunes XML file is actually a plist, and instead of trying to parse the raw XML, I could use property lists. I'm able to access the "Tracks" section, but I'm able to unable to do anything simple like extracting a track name. Admittedly, I'm stumbling around a bit, but this is the code I've gotten to so far: tell app...

Download new app from within an iPhone-app

Hello, I have developed a game and are planning to make a "Lite" version of that game in order to promote the "Premium" version of the game. Information about how to make In-App-Purchase is easy to find. But what I cannot find is how to actually download the application from within my Lite-version, after the purchase. I do not intend to...

C# event not being handled

I'm learning C# event handling by writing an app that uses the iTunes COM API. I have a method that should run when iTunes stops playing a song, but the method is never getting called when I trigger the event in the app by hitting the "stop/pause" button. EDIT: Based on dboarman's reply, I deleted the while loop. Now the event does get ...

how to "reveal"/select a track using the ITunes API

I am using the iTunes SDK/API through C#. I am trying to get iTunes to select a particular track in the music library list (i.e., highlight one particular line and only that line). I've been trying to do this with the Reveal() method: iTunesApp app = new iTunesAppClass(); IITTrackCollection tracks = app.LibraryPlaylist.Tracks; IITTrack ...

How do I get data from the iTunes app store

I'm trying to scrape the entire iTunes App Store so that I can store it in a database for a project I'm working on. I'm having a hard time finding the best way to do this. I know there are ways to get specific information about price changes but I can't find anything that describes how to scrape the entire app store. Any additional inf...

iTunes App Store API?

Sites like http://www.apptism.com/ readout the app store automatically and display information like title, description, price and images. Where do I find the documentation for this (iTunes API?). I tried to google it but no good result. ...

itunes sdk list albums

Hi guys, I'm working on a new test app (just out of curiosity really) which is an add on to iTunes. I'm trying fairly basic things at the mo, and have managed to control volume, pause etc etc. I have a function from some demo code which loops through all the tracks in my main library and gets their album name... I then show the indivi...

Where is iTunes SDK/API documentation?

I downloaded a zipped archive from Apple that consists of a C++ header file and source. Included in this was a help file. For some reason this help file opens but I cannot read the content. Is there any other documentation outside of a help file for this? For c++ or c#? ...

Media Kind in iTunes COM for Windows SDK

I recently found out about the awesomeness of the iTunes COM for Windows SDK. I am using Python with win32com to talk to my iTunes library. Needless to say, my head is in the process of exploding. This API rocks. I have one issue though, how do I access the Media Kind attribute of the track? I looked through the help file provided in t...

Upload music to iPhone/iPod/... directly without iTunes

Hello, is it possible to program a tool that sends music to iPhone/iPod without putting the songs in iTunes? the tool can work with "iTunes SDK" andit is not attended to go against Apple rules the idea is to not "cache" the songs as iTunes in libraryes, just upload it directly to the iPhone/iPod from file server this help if have musi...

How to access iTunes Library both in Windows and Mac OS X

I would like to know how can I access to the iTunes Library information in multi-plataform way. I want to make a program that can run in both Windows and Mac OS X. Which programming language, API do you recommend? Take into account that this program will need a GUI. ...