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Applescript iTunes dictionary explanations

I am wondering what the different color schemes mean in the following: What does the blue C tag mean? and the purple one? Disclaimer: absolute OSX newbie here... please be gentle ;-) ...

pyobj access to iTunes application

Let's say I managed to get the dictionary opened for iTunes in the Applescript editor: How would I access the "search" commands using Python with pyobjc? I know I get can hold of the iTunes application using: iTunes = SBApplication.applicationWithBundleIdentifier_("com.apple.iTunes") but after I do a dir on it, I don't see the sear...

iTunes style layout using CSS

What is the best way (using HTML/CSS) to create an iTunes-style layout with the following features: a left column with a fixed width but fluid height (scrollbars for overflow) (BLUE below) a main content column with fluid width and height (scrollbars for overflow) (RED below) a bottom right box with fixed width and height which remains...

How to verify that post to website is coming from a specific purchased iPhone application?

I have an iPhone application that posts data to a web application ... and I want to only accept data posted from an iPhone application that was purchased from the iTunes store. Is there a way to do this? Is there something (or somethings) I can pass from the iPhone app to the web application that I can use to do such verification? Tha...

Custom Scrollbar for UITableView

the iTunes song list display is a TableView that has a dotted scrollbar on the right which allows me to jump to a relative position of the list (i.e. if I click the bar at 2/3 down I am scrolled to the 66% position of the list. I want to do the same in my UITableView, but am not sure whether this is standard functionality that I can use...

iPhone game where user can choose background music

I've noticed some games in the app store that allow the user to choose background music from their music library (iTunes). As a developer how can I add this functionality to my game? (Just a link to a tutorial would be great... I've tried searching about 10 times and no luck) ...

iTunes Apple Events API

I'd like to control iTunes through Objective-C ( I just can't get Python appscript installed correctly on my OS/X 10.6.3 system ... that would have been my first choice ). From what I gather, the IPC on Cocoa is based on Apple Events : is there either: Online documentation on iTunes / Apple Events API ? Instrospection mechanism to get...

programmatically updating iTunes track location

I would like to modify the filesystem path for tracks on itunes programmatically, so that I can apply a string transformation to some of the tracks locations (which are now stored in a different places on the filesystem). I've tried using AppleScript to update the location property of the relevant tracks but I get an end-of-file error w...

where can i find crash logs for ad-hoc iphone applications on windows 7

Hi, My ad-hoc beta testers reported a crash, that i cannot reproduce on my device. How can i retrieve crash logs from their device? They use itunes on windows 7. What is the path to crash logs of iphone applications on windows 7? TIA ...

Add movie to iTunes using Scripting Bridge.

Hi, I want to use Scripting Bridge to add a movie to iTunes. And preferably letting me choose between a 'music video' and a 'movie'. I know both Objective-C and AppleScript so I thought it wouldn't be that hard but I can't figure it out. I know how I would use NSAppleScript for it but I'm targeting 10.5 or later and read that Scripting ...

get the latest podcasts from itunes store with link by RSS, JSON or something

Hi out there, i'm trying to get the latest podcast informations out of "itunes store" to work with this data in several applications (iphone app and web app). Is there a way to get this informations? RSS, JSON or something? i want to work with this informations in objective-c and on a website with php or js. Is my question clear? :(...

Apple Itunes app limitations

I have a iphone game that i am creating and wanted to know a couple limitations once the person downloads the game and they sign in with a user name i want them to be able to download new content maps packs etc. What is the limit in size these downloads can be? where can this content be stored? thank you! ...

APIs to download songs from iTunes to iPhone

Hi all i am writing one iphone application to download the songs and store it in my application. Is there any framework for this?. Can you please help me how to get started with it. Thanks in advance. ...

Online payment service recommendation?

We're currently in the process of looking for an online payment service that will allow us to accept credit cards, etc. However, our business model also involves revenue sharing in a model similar to that of iTunes. That is, content creators will be able to sell content through our site and we take a small percentage of the revenue. C...

How to find an specific key/value (property list)

Hi, I'm learning cocoa/objective-c. Right now I'm dealing with key/value coding. After reading Aaron's book and other sources, I thought that I was able to left the simple examples and try a complex one... I'm trying read iTunes property list (iTunes Music Library.xml). I would like to retrieve the tracks held by an specific playlist. ...

How would you measure conversion for an iPhone App Download?

I want to test how users convert from my web page to downloading my iPhone app. Right now the best funnel I figured out was to go through a page that pings Google Analytics and then redirects to an iTunes link. But this funnel only measures conversion for users who got redirected to iTunes and not if they actually downloaded the app once...

Update an app from other iTunes/Computer without losing the Documents folder

Hello, Our inHouse tech have installed our own app to some of our iPods 3.x devices. Now, we have to update that app but WIHTOUT LOSING the data that has been entered by users. The problem is that the computer who installed those app and syncronyzed, isn't working now, and when we try to update them from another computer, iTunes insis...

How to call itunes from my iphone app with search for a known CD.

here is my code: -(IBAction)itunesBuy:(id)sender{ // NSString *urlString = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@"http://itunes.com/%@/%@", self.artistTerm,self.titleTerm]; NSString *urlString = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@"http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/advancedSearchResults?albumTerm=%@", self.titleTerm];...

ITunes' podcast image isn't shown.

I created podcast rss feed - http://topdj-test.com.ua/podcast/audio-files/12/3/ And I set up "<image>" and "<itunes:image>" tags. But when I put this feed to iTunes, the picture of podcast wasn't shown in iTunes in artwork section. What have I done wrong? ...

How to programmatically generate an audio podcast file with chapters and text track?

Hi Anybody know how to programmatically generate audio podcast files with bookmarks that can be used in iTunes / iPod / iPhone / iPod touch? Specifically text bookmarks (bookmarks with titles) that the listener can skip to a specific point in time in the audio file. Also how to add the text transcription of the podcast's content. Eve...