#itunes

"M3U2iTunes is a helper application which overcomes the problems iTunes has with m3u playlists. iTunes, when downloading an m3u playlist, places all songs scattered throughout the main library (rather than, say, creating a playlist and organizing the stream tracks in it). M3U2iTunes simply creates a single playlist named "M3U Internet Stream" and places all songs from the downloaded m3u playlist into the M3U Internet Stream playlist."

"Now look at how iTunes Extras are built: while distributed as a single file, the item is really a bundle (a folder that Mac OS X treats as a file) that amounts to a self-contained web site. It acts as a container for folders of standard PNG and JPEG graphics, AAC audio, and H.264 video content together with HTML and CSS presentation and JavaScript code.The index.html page contained in iTunes Extra bundles references TuneKit Core, a JavaScripts framework that presents a foundation for working with basic TuneKit objects. TuneKit Views present additional code for building a user interface and event handling, such as keyboard navigation and mouse input. Controllers define what is displayed in the user interface and how. The whole ball of wax is built within the TK namespace."

"The iTunes LP experience is accomplished with HTML 4.01, CSS and JS. The interface feels very Flash-like, but there is no trace of it. The CSS animations are elaborate and smooth. ... As a music fan, and as a web developer, I couldn’t be more pleased with the new iTunes LP offering. If your audience is significantly Apple-oriented (e.g. a site about Mac rumors or a popular iPhone app) this proves that you can provide an incredible experience using only JavaScript and some proposed CSS3 properties."

"Leave it to Apple (AAPL) to turn the lifting of restrictions into a profit center. If users convert every one of the 9 billion songs purchased from the iTunes Store over the past six years, a rich new revenue stream will flow toward Cupertino. Techcrunch’s Erick Schonfeld calls it Apple’s “$1.8 billion music tax.”"

"This is extremely exciting for me. One of the hardest things I've had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every 3 or 4 years. Now, with the advent and popularity of digital distribution, I don't have to wait around while my songs get old and dated – I can get them out on the Internet almost immediately. It kind of boggles my mind – I thought of the idea for this new song a week ago, and next week it's getting released! "

"iTunes 6.0 now supports Atom 1.0 feeds."

"iTunes 6.0 supports Atom 1.0 based Podcasts! Without using any of their iTunes extensions! Excellent! "

"customers using iTunes Plus will have their username and email address embedded in each DRM-free track they download."

"Higher Quality DRM-Free Tracks Now Available on the iTunes Store Worldwide"

"iConcertCal is a free iTunes plug-in that monitors your music library and generates a personalized calendar of upcoming concerts in your city."

"These days nearly 100% of my iPod listening is podcasts, and iTunes’ iPod-syncing podcast support is decent but lacking in a few areas."

"it has a BitTorrent client that can rip down 7 streams automatically"

"After seeing info on hacking the keyboard backlight of newer Apple portables and someone posting a CPU meter using the backlight, I decided that it would be time to put this into an iTunes plugin."

"I finally got everything into a single archive in an open, stable format... and just 3 short years later, Apple found a way to screw me one last time."

"This page contains scripts designed to help you manage your iTunes podcast subscriptions, right from your iPod, without having to remember which episode of a given podcast you wanted to delete or save for later."

"Much that was once magic to me is now garbage. "

When blogging becomes handy: 'For those of you searching for the lyrics to the song in the latest Apple iTunes + iPod ad: The song is named “Cubicle” from the band rinocerose.'

"you navigate to your (manually updated) iPod inside of iTunes, select the tracks from which you want to copy ratings, played count, and last played for, and the script finds the corresponding track in your library and copies the data."

"iTorrent allows you to download BitTorrent podcasts from iTunes."

"Users can purchase a Multi-Pass to either show for US$9.99 and receive the next 16 episodes just as if they had purchased them individually, but at a substantial discount off the $31.84 they would cost if purchased one at a time. "

"FoxiPod uses Greasemonkey with Firefox to make downloading MP3s and music files and adding them to iTunes a single-click process."

"iTunes already has OPML export."

"Jon Udell is not happy about having to transcribe podcast URLs that iTunes displays, but does not allow to copy. While the general point about lock-in is good, here is a quick techie workaround in a meanwhile."

"If I fear that any CD I buy will silently install a bunch of crap on my computer, Apple's DRM doesn't sound quite so bad."

"What the puritan elements at iTunes appear to have missed, though, is that although CF is now without his cocktail sausage, he is sitting astride an enormous, red-tipped and rocket-propelled phallus."

"An RSS module that supplements the element capabilities of RSS 2.0 to allow for more robust media syndication." Now, besides the NIH Syndrome, why didn't Apple use this in the new iTunes Podcast support?

"Apple prove they know how to be cool, but they've got no idea about making friends on the web."

"Welcome to the Golden Age of Podcasting" Pretty nice podcast UI so far...

This. Rocks.

"This project is an attempt to make an iTunes server for Linux, OSX, and other POSIX Unix machines."