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Removing Ping from iTunes 10.0.1 | Tom Gidden

Remove Ping, and more usefully, reinstate the non-store arrow behaviour (for quickly filtering down to just an album). (I should probably stop using things like this, because they eventually vanish, but that's the sort of person I am.)

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march 2011 by blech

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Android DACP/iTunes Remote Control | TunesRemote

"With the protocol now reverse engineered, I wrote an Android client in about a week. Now you can remote control your iTunes from your new Android phone" Impressive. Shame that DAAP itself has encryption, otherwise you could stream to Android phones. (I have no idea why Apple don't offer a client.)

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december 2008 by blech

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Songbird DAAP Client | Songbird Add-ons

Interesting. Not that I think I'll be using Songbird.

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december 2008 by blech

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Things to do with /programmes: iTunes | BBC - Radio Labs

Unfortunately I couldn't get the Erlang to work - maybe I was trying with too new a compiler? - but this writeup makes it look like I should perhaps give it another go.

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september 2008 by blech

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Control the new 10.5 iTunes visualizers | Macworld

Turns out there are new visualisers in iTunes that are actually Quartz Composer based. Coo. Actually, I vaguely recall hearing that as a WWDC style bullet point, but I'd forgotten, so this is good.

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april 2008 by blech

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PodWorks 2.9.3 | Sci-Fi Hi-Fi Weblog

Nice release notes for a maintenance release of the iPod to iTunes song transfer utility. The problems with AppleScript and iTunes are, sadly, all too familiar.

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march 2008 by blech

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This annoys me | Pete Ashton’s Blog

iTunes tries to be helpful by unsubscribing you from podcasts you don't get round to listening to, but that's really annoying for digital packrats (hello!), especially when the likes of Radio 4 broadcasts expire after a week.

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february 2008 by blech

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BBC Worldwide brings TV to UK iTunes Store | TUAW

"shows will be available to download and buy 8 days after broadcast" so you can get them free via iPlayer for seven days, then cough up for an archival copy. Via different services, obviously.

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february 2008 by blech

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thinking about spreadsheets | tecznotes

Further thinking on "iTunes as spreadsheet", contrasting that to what a music-playing database would look like, and more generally on the growth of easily embeddable DBs.

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february 2008 by blech

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Scripting Bridge and iTunes ... | Apple Discussions

How to create raw AppleEvents under Cocoa/ObjC (translatable to Ruby I'm sure). Also notes that "Scripting Bridge's design is flawed". More to read there I'm sure.

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february 2008 by blech

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Mac OS X and the missing probes | Adam Leventhal

"Apple is explicitly preventing DTrace from examining or recording data for processes which don't permit tracing" notably iTunes, presumably to keep all the bits of DRM in there from being reverse engineered.

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january 2008 by blech

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Music Industry Embraces Amazon | New York Times

If record labels are "prepared to keep copy restrictions on his label’s songs on iTunes for six months to a year while Amazon establishes itself", then where does that leave Europe? DRMed, evidently.

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january 2008 by blech

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iTunes 7.3: Changes in music sort order | Apple

I thought this was worth noting, given it vaguely relates to the Coding Horror on sorting I posted earlier. Reaction to the change seems to be generally hostile.

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december 2007 by blech

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Stream Music from your iPhone to iTunes | TUAW

Backwards (it's more useful to be able to listen to music with the iPod, rather than having it as a server, surely?) but still somewhat nifty. Of course UIs are hard, and reading iTunes 7+ DAAP is still impossible.

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december 2007 by blech

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a Presentation for Some Music Industry Friends

A wonderful rant about the state of music on the web, on the desktop, and in online stores, from one of the people behind Winamp, Gnutella and Yahoo's online store. Second thing I've seen online recently comparing iTunes to a spreadsheet. Hm.

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october 2007 by blech

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Dan Saffer » Thinking the Unthinkable about iTunes

I think he's a bit harsh, and as I point out in the comments, iTunes is really a different class of app to Winamp or Foobar2k; it's a library manager, not a player. Nonetheless it has got crufted up over the years, and Cover Flow isn't really helping.

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september 2007 by blech

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[this is aaronland] “Aware of only one voice from above”

"I went to the Apple Store yesterday and were the WiPods able to see, and play, music from shared iTunes folders I probably would have bought one." But of course it doesn't. I wonder what will emerge from his cloud? (I wish he had proper permanent links)

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september 2007 by blech

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iLock-in: Apple locks Free Software out

Reaction to the iPod database changes, but more interestingly expanding into a good critique of iTunes library sharing encryption, uPNP as a competitor, and other musings, which are only let down by an appeal to "DVD" Jon at the end.

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september 2007 by blech

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iTunes 7.4 (Quarter Life Crisis)

Sven-S. Porst's writeup of the latest iTunes update (before ringtones were released). As usual, a good roundup of what's new, and where Apple are being odd. I'm also wondering about the interaction of song and album ratings.

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september 2007 by blech

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Instant Expert: Secrets & Features of iTunes 7.4

Closed captioning, album rating, larger video in the iTunes window.

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september 2007 by blech

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Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes - 7.4

AppleScript changes in the new version of iTunes. Mainly album rating (which could be handy for me).

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september 2007 by blech

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Apple launches iTunes web widgets for your blog

Ars Technica covers My iTunes, a Flash widget showing purchases, reviews and favourites on the iTMS. I don't think this really invalidates my post today about Apple and Web 2.0; it's hardly going to rival last.fm, is it? Maybe they're trying, though.

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august 2007 by blech

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ourTunes Host File

Java DAAP (iTunes sharing) proxy that seems to be able to sniff MP3s, even if it can't initiate a connection on its own. via Save OurTunes.

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july 2007 by blech

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Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes ♫ A Look at iTunes 7.3

Looks like Apple are futzing with the persisitent IDs still, and because I'm still on 7.2 I have a bad feeling my remote playlist script won't work. Change «class pPID» in the script to «class pPIS».

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july 2007 by blech

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Apple emasculates the iPhone | The Register

A rather alarmist headline when what they really mean is "Apple makes a really bad decision on how to enable music syncing for the iPhone", but it is still a bit odd that they don't allow manual syncing.

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july 2007 by blech

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Caveat about 'initial' reviews (Scripting News)

Dave Winer grumbled about the iPhone's compulsory automatic sync model at release.

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july 2007 by blech

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Jax - real life meets digital life

"Get more out of iTunes, AppleTV and the iPhone" with a plugin that lets you download stuff from YouTube, apparently. Interestingly, like iLike it's able to really customise the iTunes UI. Wonder how they're doing that and if it's supported.

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june 2007 by blech

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Under The Microscope - Fission Loves iTunes Plus

This post didn't really seem worth the time to read it, but then I noticed the comments about the fact that the buyer tags from iTunes Plus tracks are stripped by the app.

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may 2007 by blech

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Local Track, Shared Track, or iTunes Store Preview?

Could well be useful code, this. I also need to forward it to the Synergy developer. Both AppleScript and ObjC notifications - nice.

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march 2007 by blech

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Save OurTunes

It's now six months since iTunes 7 broke DAAP for all the third-party clients. Here's hoping these guys can break the new auth scheme.

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march 2007 by blech

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Fusedaap News » About

Fuse plugin to do DAAP, as you'd expect. Naturally it doesn't talk to iTunes 7 yet. Could be the thing that finally gets me to install MacFUSE. Uses Tom Insam's fab Python-DAAP.

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march 2007 by blech

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iTunes 7.1 (Quarter Life Crisis)

I was thinking of writing up the sort ordering options introduced in iTunes 7.1, but this seems to be a fairly useful description anyway. I was wondering if the sort data was in tags or the library; looks like the latter. Sigh. No metadata silos!

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march 2007 by blech

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Running the DRM Gauntlet | Songbirdnest.com

Ah, so this is where all that gdb linkage sprung from. Interesting, anyway.

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february 2007 by blech

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Anil Dash: My Library Is Dead

Some notes: you can restore some (but not all) metadata by manually importing the XML file (but it's not automatic); as ssp says, metadata is not all; and ID3 metadata shouldn't have been lost (so his "tweaks to albums" should be there).

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january 2007 by blech

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Jon Johansen hacks FairPlay, the Apple iTunes closed system - October 30, 2006

Once upon a time both his cracker and wrapper code would have been released under the GPL already. Maybe Johansen decided he wanted to make money, not just get respect.

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october 2006 by blech

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Cover art emerges in iTunes. Possibly. | cityofsound

Dan Hill and commenters on the changes in cover art in iTunes 7. I'm a bit surprised that it took CoverFlow for people to start adding music. Noted a few AppleScripts.

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september 2006 by blech

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iTunes Art Redux | Command-Tab

A comment on this post that figured out how album art was being downloaded delves into the strange behaviour when iTunes downloads it itself. I was a bit confused by this, but didn't investigate much.

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september 2006 by blech

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iTunes 7: Fetching artwork for fun and profit | printf.dk

A small Perl script. Looks like it might be handy.

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september 2006 by blech

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Bokardo » Apple Making Huge Social Software Push?

I got the survey. And took screenshots. I shall attempt to post them to one of those "blog things" this evening, assuming I don't get carried away by something less boring instead.

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august 2006 by blech

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snorp.net - Tangerine

"Tangerine is an application that allows you to publish music over the local network, using DAAP. ... Music files can be specified either by a directory, or can be automatically discovered using Beagle." Good idea, this. Doubt it'll displace mt-daapd for

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july 2006 by blech

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Backlight Visualizer for iTunes on Mac OS X

Not sure if this'll work on my PowerBook (there seem to be lots of different interfaces) but it's, um, interesting anyway.

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june 2006 by blech

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CoverScout | Equinux

"With CoverScout you can search Album Covers on Amazon, Google and iTunes Music Store" - the latter being most impressive. $20 though. Hmm. Batching could make it worth it.

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june 2006 by blech

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apples powerbook (4 March 2005, Interconnected)

"when a track comes on you don't want to hear, you jog your laptop and it bumps on to the next song (and you don't need to be in iTunes)." March 2005.

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may 2006 by blech

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BBC NEWS | UK | UK Politics | Ofcom rethinks ban on iPod gadget

"iTrips can be used in the US without disturbing the airwaves, so [Ofcom] must provide compelling evidence why they can't be used here."

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may 2006 by blech

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Amua - Last.fm control for Mac OS X

Could be useful

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may 2006 by blech

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Boing Boing: iTunes update spies on your listening and sends it to Apple?

Sigh. Just that. Sigh.

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january 2006 by blech

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iTunes 6.0.2 in Software Update - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

Bad: even more intrusive Music Store. Good: apparently streams to multiple AirPort Extreme base stations. (All the useful detail's in the comments.)

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january 2006 by blech

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radio babylon - a photoset on Flickr

Tiny battery-powered random iTunes share player. Very nice hack from andym there.

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january 2006 by blech

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Playlist: 'Oboe' syncs, streams your digital music

"a music locker that stores your digital music". Hmm.

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november 2005 by blech

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Network Security, Vulnerability Assessment, Intrusion Prevention

Despite the CNet report from boingboing mentioning eEye, their page doesn't mention iTunes

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november 2005 by blech

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Search Results

I notice the eEye vulnerability hasn't made CVE status

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november 2005 by blech

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Boing Boing: iTunes creates a security hole?

Managing to take something that looks like a standard buffer overflow in the browser side and link it to DRM and rootkits? Typical Cory paranoid bat raving

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november 2005 by blech

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Arek's OggVorbis QuickTime component page

Works with QuickTime 7, apparently

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november 2005 by blech

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OmniNerd - Articles: How Much Does iTunes Like My Five-Star Songs?

How telling iTunes to take account of ratings varies its choice of songs when it's in shuffle mode

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august 2005 by blech

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WilloToons.com: Music library bigger than your iPod?

Ah, the "multiple smart playlists" approach to the iPod music selection problem