Phillip Kerman wrote:
I have a proof of concept thing I built in Flash that parses iTunes's XML. What do you need to extract exactly? I'm pretty sure it'd be easy to adapt this thing I have to output a string (in any form you want) to your clipboard so that you can paste it into another tool or text file. Or, do you just want to view the data with something other than iTunes?
No, I want to build the iTunes database by extracting FLAC and Ogg Vorbis tags (they're the same format). iTunes itself does this automatically when importing MP3 and AAC files, but when I import Ogg Vorbis songs with the iTunes Ogg Vorbis plugin installed, the Vorbis comments are ignored. I have to enter them by hand.
There's a Sourceforge project that's supposed to be working on a FLAC plug-in for Quicktime/iTunes, but it doesn't seem to work. So while I'm waiting, I thought I'd build a simple "shim" for NFS that would make my library of FLAC files on Linux look like a network filesystem full of WAV files to my desktop Mac. I can then import them into iTunes and play them from the server onto my Mac. However, there wouldn't and couldn't be any meta information in iTunes' database, because WAV files don't have meta tags. That means I'd have to add the meta info manually to the iTunes database, or preferably use a tool to extract the tags from the FLAC files and build an XML file that I could then import into iTunes.
I actually like iTunes. Although it doesn't have native support for my preferred formats, it has one of the best user interfaces of any music jukebox program around. And it's pretty stable. So when I want to listen to music while I'm at my computer, I'd much rather use iTunes than SoftSqueeze. I'd prefer to limit my use of SlimServer to just my Squeezeboxes, at least until it becomes a lot more stable.
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