On 13 March 05, Phil Karn wrote:
> Speaking of the iTunes database structure, do you happen to know of any 
> utilities that can scan a music folder and build the iTunes XML 
> structure from the tags in the music files (other than iTunes itself, 
> that is)?

No, I don't think I've seen such a thing.  It really doesn't look like it
would be hard to do, though.

> The reason I ask is that I have an Ogg Vorbis plug-in for iTunes that 
> plays just fine, but it doesn't read the Vorbis tags into the database 
> when I add an Ogg Vorbis file to the library. I'm also thinking of 
> writing a NFS "shim" that would make my FLAC archive appear to iTunes as 
> if it was full of WAV files, and WAV files don't have any metadata at 
> all for iTunes to import.

Another option would be to run a server which speaks iTunes' sharing
protocol.  I haven't paid much attention to this space since doing the initial
work figuring out the protocol, so I'm not sure if any of the pre-packaged
servers would do quite what you want.  The perl module 'Net::DAAP::Server'
might be a good place to start looking, or daapd[1].

[1] http://www.deleet.de/projekte/daap/daapd/index.html
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Todd Larason | Obligatory 'blog: http://molelog.molehill.org/ | UIN:   9311600
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