{"id":6,"date":"2005-01-05T15:30:30","date_gmt":"2005-01-05T15:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alephnaught.wordpress.com\/2005\/01\/05\/hacking-the-itunes-music-library\/"},"modified":"2005-01-05T15:30:30","modified_gmt":"2005-01-05T15:30:30","slug":"hacking-the-itunes-music-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2005\/01\/05\/hacking-the-itunes-music-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacking the iTunes Music Library"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

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Hacking the iTunes Music
\nLibrary<\/b><\/font>
Niel Bornstein, XML 2004
\nConference Proceedings<\/font><\/p>\n

“Apple’s iTunes
\nuses XML to store library metadata. What can we do
\nwith<\/font>
this information? This paper will
\nexplore ways to work with the iTunes<\/font>
Music
\nLibrary file for fun and education, including querying
\nvarious<\/font>
web services for other suggested
\nrecordings and related information.<\/font>
The
\niTunes library file, a file called iTunes Music Library.xml,
\nis<\/font>
created automatically when you launch
\niTunes. The schema for the library<\/font>
has
\nnothing to do with music, audio, multimedia, or data files;
\nit’s<\/font>
just a generic dictionary, a collection
\nof key-value pairs. The top-<\/font>
level element is
\nplist (property list), and it can contain any of
\nthe<\/font>
elements array, data, date, dict, real,
\ninteger, string, true, or false.<\/font>
This is a
\nfairly flexible DTD. Apple provides a browser-based
\nservice<\/font>
that allows you to look up a
\nparticular song or artist in the iTunes<\/font>
Music
\nStore. The ITMS Link Maker allows you to search for a song,
\nalbum,<\/font>
or artists, and creates a link to
\ndirect the iTunes music player to the<\/font>
song in
\nthe music store. This could be useful if, for example,
\nyou<\/font>
publish a list of recently played songs
\non your weblog, and you want<\/font>
to let your
\nreaders buy the songs you’ve recently listened to.
\nApple<\/font>
also provides a service to create an
\nRSS feed of iTunes songs based on<\/font>
criteria
\nyou select, including genre, regional music store, feed
\ntype<\/font>
(new releases, just added, iTunes top
\nsongs, iTunes top albums, or<\/font>
featured albums
\nand exclusives), feed size, and whether to show
\nexplicit<\/font>
content.<\/font><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.idealliance.org\/proceedings\/xml04\/papers\/80\/paper.html<\/u><\/font>
See
\nalso XML and Music:
\n<\/font>http:\/\/xml.coverpages.org\/xmlMusic.html<\/u><\/font>“<\/font><\/p>\n

(Quoted
\nfrom the XML.org Daily Newslink)<\/font><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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