[Pythonmac-SIG] Accessing the iTunes database directly?

[David Stokes]

Can the iTunes library database be accessed directly via Python? What I want to do are some fairly basic manipulations of the data but using the scripting API (from both appscript and AppleScript) was ridiculously slow; operations that took seconds in comparable manipulations of a SQLite database of a similar size took multiple hours. I had thought I'd heard that iTunes uses -- or once used -- SQLite, but either it has changed or I was just looking in the wrong place.

If nothing else, I suppose I can use an XML export of the library data and then re-import it.

Thanks,
David

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