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iPad iTunes Animation

Hi, Within the iTunes Music Store app on the iPad, if you select an album, a modal view flips out of the album over to the middle of the screen. Is this a built in animation or a custom built one? How would I go about replicating it? This can be seen about 30 seconds into this video. Thanks ...

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...

Add file to Itunes com

I saw the post (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1585878/adding-song-to-itunes-with-c-sdk-api) about this, but following the link couldn't find any solid help.. Could someone point me in the right direction? Thanks, Max ...

Get the currently played song in iTunes

Hi, I'd like to get the name of the song that iTunes is currently playing. What API should I refer to? I'd like to use that both for a dashboard widget or a Java/python application depending on what it is easier to use. Do you have some references for me? Thanks in advance, Mario ...

What happens to an ad hoc installed iPhone/iPad app when a new iTunes profile is synced against?

I'm currently involved in a project where a number of iPads loaded with a special app are given away to a number of people at a certain event. Both because of time constraints as well as our desire to give these people a really exclusive app, we decided to prepare these devices using ad hoc installs of the app. What will happen to the a...

iTunes search query URL?

I'd like to make a URL that searches my name in iTunes. Basically, clicking on it should open up iTunes with my name in the search box and the results should be loading or loaded. How do I make this URL? ...

Searching for a song while using multiple API's

I'm going to attempt to create an open project which compares the most common MP3 download providers. This will require a user to enter a track/album/artist name i.e. Deadmau5 this will then pull the relevant prices from the API's. I have a few questions that some of you may have encountered before: Should I have one server side page...

Can I sync an iphone running OS 4 with a PC running iTunes 9.2

Just downloaded the iOS 4 GM seed from the apple developer site. Apparently from what I've read, I can't install it unless I do a full restore of the Phone. If anybody knows of a way to do it without restoring would be part of this question. I normally sync all my music and stuff with my PC. Will I be able to restore my device and re...

python win32com Causes Program crash

I wrote program to control iTunes by monitoring keystrokes from with pyHooks and then interfaceing with the iTunes COM interface. The program works fine, the only problem I have is when I try to compile it with py2exe. The program always crashes with this traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "threading.pyc", line 527, i...

Bulk generating iTunes music links

Does anyone know of a way to generate links to the iTunes store in bulk? I have the Artist/Album/Song info for a couple hundred songs and would like to avoid using Apple's Link Maker as that is a manual process. The best I've seen so far is to make urls that goto itunes search feature. ie http://itunes.com/artist/album ...

Does iTunes have an API

Is there a way to add an mp3 to my iTunes library programmatically from a 3rd party app? ...

Crawling and Scraping iTunes App Store

I noticed that iTunes preview allows you to crawl and scrape pages via the http:// protocol. However, many of the links are trying to be opened in iTunes rather than the browser. For example, when you go to the iBooks page, it immediately tries opening a url with an itms:// protocol. Are there any other methods of crawling the App Store...

How to find different size icon for a certain app on the itunes app store?

I need to create a widget where different size of an apps icon is needed, how do I find them in different sizes? The only thing I have is the itunes app link like the following http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yelp/id284910350?mt=8 ...

problem installing adhoc app with itunes 9.2

I just installed itunes 9.2. Then tried doing something I've done thousands of times before: installing an add hoc build. I deleted the old version of the app and dragged the new version onto the app section of itunes. I get a message that the profile with the same name already exists (I select replace). Nothing happens- the app is not i...

iPhone in-App purchase to send greeting cards?

I am creating an iPhone app to design an Electronic Greeting Card. I offer to send real post cards to the recipients if the iPhone user purchases an e-Stamp using in-App purchases of the App. I hear that Apple does not allow physical good. Will my app be able to use iTunes in-App payments system since I am selling only e-Stamps within ...

How to get music files of iphone using itunes sdk?

i'm researching to get music files in iphone. i think i can get it using itunes sdk into PC based on windows, but i don't find a solution in sdk's document. i can get playlists and music file's locations using sdk. is it possible to get music and video files in iphone using itunes sdk? ...

iPhone Album Art Effect

Hi guys, I'm just wondering here if there is an in-built view for this. I haven't managed to find it, but then I may not be looking in the right places. I'm trying to find the effect used in the Album Art view of Music (or iPod) on the iPod Touch (or iPhone/iPad). The effect that scrolls between multiple album covers, pushing all other...

Your request could be not completed in itunes

Hello , i got one problem when I send url from itunes it giving request could not be found error I am getting , this is url I am sending , in system browser its open and giving output, but from iphone its not given, http://itunes.apple.com/us/video/hips-dont-lie-feat-wyclef-jean/id205700602?uo please help me, thank you ...

Possible to simulate a keyboard shortcut being pressed by clicking on link using JavaScript?

Hi, I'm creating a touch application in the "Itunes LP" format which uses html, css and javascript within Itunes to create a "digital LP". The application will have several LP's to explore through a touchscreen. In fullscreen mode (within Itunes and the LP) you can press the "esc key" to exit the LP and enter "coverflow view" where yo...