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Apple Releases iTunes SDK for Windows
amichalo writes "Apple's recent release of an iTunes SDK for Windows provides the ability for third party programs, such as WinAmp and Windows Media Player, to support the AAC file format. Ars Technica has additional commentary. The SDK uses the COM interface and supports iTunes 4.5 only."
Well, iTunes for Windows actually uses Quicktime for playback.
Theres this nice project over at SourceForge http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtcomponents/ with Ogg Vorbis components for Quicktime (and thus iTunes). It's still beta, and there is a pause when iTunes switch between formats, but it plays Ogg Vorbis.
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Yes, that's what I've stated in my post. There has been support for AAC before, but this is for Apple's AAC from itms, not the MPEG standard one.
Or if you're curious about COM on Mac OS X:
Component Object Model (COM) Development on Mac OS X
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Slashdot | AAC vs OGG vs MP3
iTunes 4.5 supports importing unprotected WMA files. You can import unprotected WMA files into an iTunes format of your choice, and play them on your iPod.
While this won't help with playing DRM'd WMA files purchased from other online stores, it's a step in the right direction.
Maybe someone out there will make a hymn-like program for unprotecting DRM'd WMA music purchases...
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Winamp has had AAC support for a while, natively and through plug-ins. Winamp has also been able to play iTMS' DRM-ed files as early as last OCTOBER, via plug-in. A quick search on the topic could've revealed that fact in seconds: Winamp Unlimited FAQ and Winamp forums
The Winamp community really deserves more than that--they're more active and more involved with where Winamp is going than probably any other "closed source" media player community.
It converts them (on Windows only) so that people can use their WMA music on iPods.
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Winamp 5.x already supports AAC out of the "box"; it will rip to AAC quite transparently.
Check it out... www.winamp.com; its worth it for the shoutcast capabilities alone.
I thought that this was already debunked in a previous story.
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What *I*'d like to know is why the iPod lacks both a hierarchical organization system (like, folders?)
Perhaps because an indexed database is faster at searching through upto 10,000 file records than scanning all 10,000 files & metadata?
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Though the header files, etc, are nice if you're a VC++ whiz, any two-bit Visual Basic 6 hacker like myself has had access to the iTunes COM objects for quite some time.
Not only do you not need the SDK, aside from the sample code (strangely written in jscript of all things), the SDK is nearly worthless for VB6 hackers. All you had to do was open a new project in the VB6 IDE, select Project==References from the menus, and select iTunes 1.0 Type Library (the file is iTunes.exe no less).
Voila. Instant COM compliant objects waiting for you to hack0rz. Hit F2 and search for iTunesLib and the documentation's already there (no SDK required) as well.
If this SDK makes you aware you can hack iTunes, then great. But don't wait to download it to start hacking. Install iTunes, open VB6's IDE, and get a move on!
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It's all 0s and 1s. Or it's not.
M4p is the extension. AAC is the file format.
M4a for unprotected media. M4p for drm'd media.
They can't. iTunes relies on background services for access to the music store and cd burning, I imagine because of their similarity to UNIX background threads. The 9x kernel is too primitive for this, they'd have to come up with another way of using and interfacing threads, which I imagine is too much of a pain in the ass just to support a six year old deprecated operating system.
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If you dl it and try it out, it's just a scripting SDK for the iTunes interface (I think someone else pointed this out as well). I downloaded it...fired up Visual Studio and build a quick Windows app with a button to create a new playlist.
Click the button and watch as iTunes opens up. In fact, aside from instantiation of the iTunes object, there isn't a single function that I've been able to perform without iTunes opening up.
Not saying it isn't pretty cool...but the COM interface isn't going to let you build tons of plugins, etc. without iTunes running on your desktop.
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