[Pythonmac-SIG] iTunes scripting/Python shilling opportunity?

[Jack Jansen]

On 26-jan-05, at 21:50, has wrote:

> Bob wrote:
>
>> It doesn't sound like that's what he wants.
>
> Yeah I know, I was thinking laterally; throwing random ideas into the 
> ring 'n that.
>
> iTunes... Mac Mini... media centers... cross-platform... LANs... 
> etc... seems a very wide field; perhaps there's opportunities there 
> for MacPython to do interesting things.

Definitely, but someone has to do them:-)

When I came across the Mac mini media center stuff a couple of days ago 
I realised that this would be an area where 
Python/MacPython/PyObjC/appscript could really shine. They have very 
few ObjC developers right now, and a rather large agenda.

Think of it: the end user will want to use the remote control to browse 
a selection of songs (or radio stations) on-screen and have the result 
play through itunes. So we're talking a combination of unix 
programming/bit manipulation (reading /dev/ttyXX and getting the IR 
commands), a reasonable user interface in 640x480 (or 575xtheotherone) 
and talking to iTunes. Python is the only language I can think of that 
I would consider doing something like this in.

But, of course, I don't have the time:-( But it would really make me 
happy if people looking for pet projects could have a look at this...
--
Jack Jansen, <Jack.Jansen at cwi.nl>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack
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