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Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / October 2007Programming iTunes
Apple has made the iTunes COM SDK so Windows users can access iTunes via code. It uses COM, which is for Windows platform. I had an application made on Microsoft Access using VBA and I would like to do another one in Java, on my Mac. I cannot use this SDK because I don't use Windows anymore. How can I access the "iTunes API"? I would like to use Java for this. If I cannot use Java, is there any other way? On Windows, for example, the MS Access Application automatically opened iTunes, selected some music, changed the Tags for some, convert to other file types... =( Please help me! > Apple has made the iTunes COM SDK so Windows users can access iTunes > via code. It uses COM, which is for Windows platform. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > opened iTunes, selected some music, changed the Tags for some, convert > to other file types... On Mac OS X you'll probably need to use AppleScript for something like this. I have no idea if you can make AppleScript calls from Java.  SignatureTom "Tom" Harrington MondoMouse makes your mouse mightier See http://www.atomicbird.com/mondomouse/ > > Apple has made the iTunes COM SDK so Windows users can access iTunes > > via code. It uses COM, which is for Windows platform. [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > On Mac OS X you'll probably need to use AppleScript for something like > this. I have no idea if you can make AppleScript calls from Java. You can: <http://mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.21/21.04/AppleScriptandJava/inde x.html> I think, though, that the right solution depends a lot on the specific goal. You want to "access iTunes via code" but what do you actually want to do? If you're not doing stuff that involves significant (or any) user interaction you can probably just write some double-clickable or drop-launchable scripts. I can say that everything you listed above is certainly available to AppleScript/AppleEvent clients. |
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