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ITL (iTunes Library) Format

I´m developing a Java solution for manage an iTunes Library (ITL file). The ITL format is a propietary one. I'm looking for an implementation or a documentation about ITL format but Google can't find anything useful. Does anyone have experience about that? Where to find more information? Thanks in advance. ...

iPad App submission error

The binary you uploaded was invalid. When supporting iPad only, the iPhone OS Deployment Target must be 3.2. What is this??!?!?!?! This happens everytime I try to upload my binary file to iTunes Connect ...

How can I get an RSS link to auto open in iTunes/WinAmp/etc

I have user generated podcasts, each with their own RSS feed. Is there a way to automatically open iTunes when the link to the RSS feed is clicked? I've seen this happen before, but the podcast had always been submitted to Apple and approved. This is not practical for hundreds of user-generated podcasts. I tried linking like itunes://h...

Accessing current track information from iTunes on iPod

Is there any iTunes API for the iPhone OS which I can use to access some information (current track, etc.) from iTunes? I looked around, but all I could find was some AppleScript and COM API. ...

iTunes Music Store Link Maker — how to search from within my app?

I'm writing a music reference app and for each album (pulled from last.fm) would like to link to the ITMS (if the album is in the store). iTunes link maker web tool http://apple.com/itunes/linkmaker/ is great for getting links for a known album but I need to access it programatically from within my app. This NSLog blogpost which is fro...

Add rss xmlns namespace definition to a php simplexml document?

I'm trying to create an itunes-valid podcast feed using php5's simplexml: <?php $xml_string = <<<XML <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <channel> </channel> XML; $xml_generator = new SimpleXMLElement($xml_string); $tnsoundfile = $xml_generator->addChild('title', 'Main Title'); $tnsoundfile->addChild('itun...

How do you take snapshots of an iPhone screen within a C# application?

I would like to be able to take a snapshot of the screen of an attached iPhone from within a C# application I am writing for Windows, similar to how Xcode's Organizer takes snapshots. I have heard that you can use ITunesMobileDevice.dll to communicate with an attached iPhone, but I don't know how to take snapshots using this library. ...

how can you connect to itunes library in your program. What api or classes are used in this

How can you connect to an itunes library in your iphone program. What api or classes are used in this. I need to make an app similar to the REMOTE app that exists. to be able to connect to a itunes library on someones computer and see their list of songs etc. ...

I need a library to store/load files to/from iPhone

The only thing that I found was Manzana but it crashes while I start the test executable. Can someone tell me some library which can I use to copy/delete files from and to iPhone? Or maybe a console tool which I can use as a back-end. ...

ScriptingBridge causes iTunes to relaunch after quit

I'm working on a Cocoa app that monitors what you're listening to in iTunes, and since I'm targeting Mac OS 10.5 and higher, I've decided to use Scripting Bridge. If I try to close iTunes too close to the time that my app polls it for the current track, iTunes will immediately relaunch! The only way to reliably prevent this behavior is ...

iTunes COM interface on OS/X

Is the iTunes COM interface available on Mac OS/X? From the documentation I could find, it seems much more extensive than the Applescript interface I could expose through the Automator program. Disclaimer: absolute OS/X newbie here. ...

Is there a way to programmatically extract the feed of a podcast from the iTunes page?

From an iTunes page, like http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-tech-mp3-edition/id73329404, is there a way to extract the corresponding feed address? In this case it would be http://leoville.tv/podcasts/twit.xml. I know that if you open on iTunes you can extract it manually, but I want to do it programmatically. There's a lin...

iPhone backup & restore does not restore our app's data on rare occasions

We have an iPhone app with several thousand users, and we've had one or two users saying that after a full backup & restore procedure within iTunes, the data for our app was lost. All the data (photos & SQLite DB) are stored in the documents area of the app. I've tested this thoroughly with our devices and it works absolutely fine. Can...

Apple Events from Applescripts

Hi: I'm planning to make a little applescripts to do some action when iTunes change the song in playing, but i can't found how to put my script to listen for the apple event that should launch iTunes when the track change. Did anyone knows? i know you can make a objetive-c application can register whith Apple Events Manager to listen f...

iphone app submission process.

I am done with my first iphone app (SO helps a lot..thanks). Now i want to submit my app to app store for review. I can use itunes connect to submit my app. I have few questions. 1) I dont know how to create a build for release. What i mean is i dont know what profile it requires. There are help videos but they all guide to do developme...

is it possible to delete in app purchase?

is it possible to delete in app purchase while it is in rejected state? i want to change product type: from (i.e. consumable to non consumable) ...

Finding App Id under .ipa or .app

I'm building an application that search and recognizes any iPhone apps that user has in his/her computer. I would like to know a way to "extract" the id of the application from the .ipa file. I was trying to do the recognition using only the App File Name, but I discovered that the File Name is not the name of the app in Apple Store. Li...

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...

Searching for a track on iTunes

I'd like to search for tracks on iTunes using a Python script on Mac OS/X. I found a way to access the iTunes application through: iTunes = SBApplication.applicationWithBundleIdentifier_("com.apple.iTunes") but I haven't figured out (yet) the way to perform searches. A little help appreciated. Disclaimer: OS/X newbie here. Note: I ...

Applescript - How to iterate over tracks

Hi, I'm a newbie in applescript. I was trying to learn it from various sources, such as Doug's site, macscripter and this forum Just for learning purposes, I was trying to print on the screen all the tracks names using this code: tell application "iTunes" set myTracks to (tracks of library playlist 1) repeat with aTrack in myT...