[Pythonmac-SIG] Reading iPod files

[Dinu Gherman]

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Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen@oratrix.com>:

> Dinu,
> depending on how much work you want to put into this it might 
> make a very nice demo of the capabilities of Python. I'm 
> thinking of something like a lowlevel module that allows access 
> to the database, and a couple of programs: at least a command 
> line program and a GUI program, possibly a GUI program both with 
> Carbon and one with Cocoa, maybe even a Scripting Addition that 
> opens up the files to AppleScript, or [Help! Help! He's getting 
> carried away!!] a CGI script that makes the contents of your 
> iPod available on a webpage, that sort of things.

That would be simple enough, even accessing the files
directly on an iPod attached to a networked machine!
But that sounds *very* much like some folks will more
than not like this...

I don't know how much more time I'll put in. A Cocoa i/f
is doable, but I have no clue about Carbon and certain-
ly won't take courses to learn it... ;-) More or less 
the same with AppleScript.

> Hmm, [talk about getting carried away...], if the API to the 
> lowlevel module is reasonably clean it might also be possible to 
> write an alternative lowlevel module that would give the same 
> access to your iTunes playlists. That would really be a very 
> nice demo of the powers of Python...

The API is dead-simple. I'm attaching my test suite as
a proof! ;-)

> But: by all means makes this available, even if the rant above 
> doesn't have you jumping up and down with excitement:-)

It does! ;-)

Dinu

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