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Re: Scripting iTunes Music store?
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Re: Scripting iTunes Music store?


  • Subject: Re: Scripting iTunes Music store?
  • From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 13:29:09 -0400

On 05/06/2003 10:02, "Gary Robinson" <email@hidden> did proclaim:

> My company is working on an OS X app that has the potential to help Apple
> sell more music.
>
> But it needs to be able to use scripting or other means to tell iTunes to
> stream the 30-second clips of particular songs in the store.
>
> I can't see any obvious way to accomplish that given iTunes' current
> AppleScript dictionary.
>
> If there really is no current way to do it, is there anyone at Apple I can
> talk to about adding that capability, perhaps in cooperation with our
> development effort?

From what I can tell, the music store is a big XML process, perhaps XML/RPC,
or some kind of other web services. So you're going to need to take a look
at the data stream to sort out the data construction, and figure it out from
there.

john

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