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Creating sandbox account in iTunes Connect for InAPP Purchase

hi all, How to create a test user account in iTunes Connect ? I am using the "https://itunesconnect.apple.com/WebObjects/iTunesConnect.woa" url , but there is not option for creating user account ? Please suggest how to create a test user account ? and provide the steps for creating it ? Thanks... ...

Loading resource items in iphone via itunes

I have an app that has about 60 png files and a couple of cfg files in the main bundle. Runs great in the simulator, and when I download from Xcode to iTouch. But I'm stumped on distributing to my testers. I have their provisioning profiles, etc. But when I created the app and sent it to them, it showed up as a folder (NR1.APP) with ...

Linking to an iphone App

Hi All :) I have an App i am developing. Part of the functionality allows the user to send an e-mail to friends from the App. In this E-mail i would like to have a link to my App in the iTunes store. I was wondering if it is possible to do this before your app has been submitted? Or would i have to send an update as soon as the app ...

Updating resource files for iPhone app

I've developed a generic iPhone app, intended for customization via a myapp.cfg file. I've successfully deployed the app to my adhoc testers via iTunes. My question is, how do I update their myapp.cfg file via iTunes. In other words, if they edit the .cfg file on their Windows PC or Macbook, how do they get it into the apps bundle in ...

Problems with simplepie reading the itunes:category tag

Hi to all, i'm having a bit of a complication reading the itunes:category tag. I'm using blip to host some files, i use simple pie to read the blip feed and then "creating" a valid feed for itunes podcast. My code works fine in some cases but in other it simply doen't work. Here is the part of my code that reads the itunes:category tag:...

iTunes integration advice

I'd like to get some feedback and references to any useful resources related to iTunes integration on Windows platform from fellow developers experienced in that area. COM SDK vs. JavaScript API? What are the advantages and limitations? Any useful blogs or discussion groups? Any recommended outsourced vendors experienced in this type of ...

Reading iTunes XML File With PHP

I'm trying to read the iTunes XML file with PHP. I want to extract particular bits of information. Such as the Name, Artist and Album. How would I do this? I found this which works quite well when parsing the whole file. I thought perhaps using this to create a whole new XML file which is easier to read. But there must be a better way. ...

Get current playing song using Cocoa

Hi all! Is there a way (ofcourse there is a way, but which way) to get info about the song currently playing in iTunes on a Mac (OS 10.5.8 and OS 10.6) programmatically? I need this for my Cocoa application. I use iTunes 8 and Objective-C. Thanks in advance. ...

iTunes COM interface

Hi. I would like to be able to control iTunes with python. I know this is possible and I successfully tested some examples I have seen here at stackoverflow and in other sites, too. However, I would like to read the documentation about this. I have registered in Mac Dev Center, and when try to access the [link] where the docs are, but ...

Access iTunes library on Mac from iPhone app

Is there a way I can connect to the iTunes library on Mac from my iPhone app. The functionality which is available in Remote app from apple. I beleive this is something to do with bonjour programming. Can anyone provide me any head start and point me in the right direction to look for? Thanks ...

How can my iPhone program play m4p media?

I can use Core Audio to play m4a but not m4p. Do you have any idea what method I should use in this case? thank you! ...

Making a podcast RSS feed for iTunes

I'm building an RSS feed using PHP and want it to show up nicely in iTunes. How do I format the RSS feed so that iTunes likes it? Are there any special tags that I should use? What is the best way to submit it to the iTunes Directory (just once, or resubmit periodically to keep it "fresh")? What are some best practices, tips and trick...

iPhone pagination dots??

Does anyone know how to incorporate the iPhone's (and iTunes) pagination dots into a web page? The web page I'm working is for the iPhone, but is not a native app, just an iPhone optimized web site. I figured out how to do horizantale finger scrolling - major headache - but not the client is asking for some pagination to display as the...

Create a playlist in iTunes with COM and Java

How do I create a playlist in iTunes from Java, using COM (on windows i.e. no AppleScript)? I have found a library here that does most of what I need, and I have added some code to ITPlaylist.java, to call the "AddTrack" method (mentioned in the docs) on the iTunes object ITPlaylist : public void addTrack(ITTrack track) { ITPlayli...

Generating iTunes podcast feed with WCF

How do you make an iTunes podcast feed with WCF? Or do you know of a complete example that actually works? I've reached the point where I corrected all errors and warnings[1] marked by feedvalidator.org and also included all the iTunes custom tags I could and iTunes still claims it's a broken feed (obviously giving no useful information...

Iphone detect Region Format

I want to to deliver different iTunes buy links to a user depending on where there Region Format is set (in general settings). Is there a way to detect that and then deliver a separate database to each users region? Thanks for the help. GS. ...

Problem installing app on iphone via iTunes 9 with Ad Hoc provisioning

I can install an app on my development iPhone compiled with "Debug" configuration using my Ad Hoc provisioning and everything works OK. But when I build it using "Release" configuration, iTunes says: The application XXX was not installed on the iPhone "YYYY" because its resources have been modified. I've never seen this message before. ...

iTunes COM - How to acess Lyrics

Hi. I have been messing around with iTunes COM from python. However, I haven't been able to access the Lyrics of any track. I have been using python for this. Here is the code: >>> import win32com.client >>> itunes = win32com.client.Dispatch("iTunes.Application") >>> lib = itunes.LibraryPlaylist >>> tracks = lib.Tracks >>> tracks <win...

[python] How to get instance type of a win32com object?

First of all, please excuse me for any incoherence in the tile of this question. It probably has some, but really don't know better. This question was raised in the context of controlling iTunes via COM from python. >>> itunes = win32com.client.Dispatch("iTunes.Application") >>> itunes <win32com.gen_py.iTunes 1.12 Type Library.IiTunes ...

Automatic checking of iTunes store

Hi, I have got a couple of applications on the app store and I am checking daily all available countries to check out if someone left a review on my application and at what place it is in the top-paid rating. It became really boring to spend time watching over iTunes. But the information I get is very helpful. Is there a way to automa...