itunes

Bundle videos or download later?

I have an application that uses small videos I've created to demonstrate the concepts explained in particular topics. The videos are at least 3MB and I'm unsure of the max but probably 5MB. For v1.0, I'd like to distribute 5 videos. That's ~15MB plus about another meg for the app. Should I distribute the videos through iTunes, where ...

Does anyone know of a good reference/documentation/tutorial for the daap protocol?

For those who hear it for the first time it stands for Digital Audio Access Protocol. It's what iTunes uses to stream music. The protocol uses HTTP for passing around playlist info, streaming audio etc. I've looked at the specifications, but there are a lot of things that are unclear. Does anyone have a link to better documentation of...

Fastest way to load or cache from an extremely slow API?

My WPF project utilizes the iTunes API. At start-up time, there's several background threads that work to load the iTunes library from the API into memory (this is for performance reasons once the app is running). However, loading the library is painfully slow. On the order of nearly three minutes. Most recently I've tried saving the l...

iphone app buyer information

do you get iphone app buyer information once your app is on the app store? like emails and such? ...

iTunes store - iPhone App ... customizable background?

At iTunes, some iPhone Applications have their own background image screens.. like Sim City I'm not talking about "primary screenshot / additional screenshots" or "Large 512x512 icon" I'm talking about the big eye-candy title screen that some famous iPhone App got inside the iTunes Store screen.. like "Let's GOLF" .. "Sim City" etc. H...

QuickTime for Java vs. iTunes DRM

The Apple QuickTime standalone player can manage iTunes' DRM scheme well enough to play movies downloaded from iTunes with no problem. Is there any way to get QuickTime for Java to handle iTunes DRM similarly well, or is that simply beyond the software's abilities? ...

Is it possible to create URLs to items on the Apple iTunes store programmatically?

Is it possible to create URLs direct to items on the Apple iTunes store programmatically? I have noticed that last.fm and similar sites have links which take the user directly to a part of the iTunes store, such as an album page. The URL for the link is created by last.fm. Here's an example of such an URL: http://www.last.fm/affiliate_...

Verifying a release builds

My projects reference static DLLs I've created. These projects are setup to make sure a corresponding build phase occurs. Meaning, if I build in simulator/debug, the static library will have an up to date simulator/debug build. I can verify my app works fine except for device/release. Is there a way to verify device/release? It's so...

How do I build an xcode project for the itunes store??? Please help!!

Ok, I'm abit of a newbe...need some help... I've got my apps running on my iphone, great..however, to list on the itunes store I need the "universal binary" thing... I've tried finding answers, but I can't seem to find a concise useable explanation to doing this in xcode...I alwase get errors when I try to build a binary...So PLEASE, ca...

iPhone app Submission under company name

My team and I have been contracted by a company to develop our first iPhone Application. I am wondering how this contractor relationship is best handled. Does the $99 SDK/Dev connection account need to be established under the contractor's name, so that when the application is approved it isn't listed by our company's name, but by thei...

How to programatically combine two aac files into one?

I'm looking for a cat for aac music files (the stuff iTunes uses). Use Case: My father in law will not touch computers except for audiobooks he downloads to his iPod. I have taught him some iTunes (Windows) basics, but his library is a mess. It turns out, that iTunes is optimized for listening to podcasts and random songs from your libr...

Testing and Debugging on the device: How can I stop iTunes to make me crazy every time I connect my device?

It's so harrying: Every time when I connect my iPod touch to my mac, iTunes launches and starts synchronizing. This causes collisions with Xcode when it tries to install the app on the device in this time. And my exposé-windows always jump to the iTunes window. Then I have to wait, wait, wait, dismiss the stupid question like "you really...

iPhone: How to detect if iTunes is playing?

I noticed that some apps programmatically mute itunes (if its running) at launching. How is this achieved? I have a game with background music and would like to either stop itunes or get at least a message that itunes is playing so that I can stop the game's background music. thx, marc. ...

Tutorial for creating a podcast (in PHP)

I am looking for some tutorials for setting up a podcast in PHP. I have audio files and title/description data, I just want to make sure I get the XML part right so that it handles well in iTunes and other common players. (I don't subscribe to any podcasts, and I don't know what's popular.) The title/description data is stored in a mysq...

Add media from iphone (outside of iPod library) into iTunes

Is there a way for my iPhone app to add media (mp3s) not in its iPod library to iTunes once the user plugs/syncs to a desktop such that the media will get sync'd back into the iPhone's iPod library? I know the question is rather general, but if it is indeed possible, can anyone nudge me in the right direction? ...

How to set the tracks of a playlist in iTunes using AppleScript?

I'm trying to set the tracks of a user playlist using AppleScript. I don't want the tracks to be added, I want them to replace the current tracks. Before I do that, I need to look up the tracks by their persistent IDs, which is working fine, but the statement that sets the tracks isn't working. Code snippet below: set fixed indexi...

Link to iTunes music

I would like to enable users to as simply as possible go to a certain music album in the iTunes music store (not the app store). Is it possible to create such a direct link that opens iTunes music store with particular music album or song? You can see such behavior in Shazam. ...

How to link to the page of a single author/company page on the App Store?

I would like to provide a link to all the apps of a single author/company on the App Store from my iPhone app. Let's take Ngmoco for instance. Clicking on the following link on iTunes for PC or Mac opens iTunes and redirects the user to a page with all the published apps of Ngmoco up to today: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore....

How to add adhoc application on multiple iphone on the same computer in itunes ?

How to install my app in adhoc release on multiple device with the same computer/itunes, when i try to do it, itunes sync the devices..so i clean them up ... ...

Xcode 3.1.3 - Organizer The device is not activated. Please activate it using iTunes

Hello, I recently upgraded my XCode SDK to version 3.1.3 and my iphone OS to 3.0. It is important to note that everything was working fine when i had os version 2.2.1 in my iPhone. My iPhone Touch device is not jailbroken and I have a valid provisioning profile in the organizer which is linked to my iPhone Touch however it has a yellow ...