Create Web catalogs of your iTunes music library

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Delicious Library 1.0: Easy, Fun Library
Software Catalogs Your Media

Delicious Library 1.0: Easy, Fun Library
Software Catalogs Your Media 03/17/2005 03:10 AM

In addition to being useful and easy to use, it's just plain fun. By Mathew Honan, Macworld

New Apple iTunes SDK May Create
Opportunity for Music Store

New Apple iTunes SDK May Create
Opportunity for Music Store 05/18/2004 01:21 PM
Ars Technica notes that Apple has released another iTunes Windows SDK (Software Development Kit), this one exposing some functionality through Windows' COM interface that will let developers control certain functions of iTunes via other programs like, say, Winamp. What that means to you is that very shortly we can expect...

Create links to iTunes Music Store items

Create links to iTunes Music Store items 07/30/2004 10:29 AM
Today I was messing around with iTunes and discovered that if you click and hold on the links in the top of the window (the ones next to the Home icon) ... ... then you can drag these links to an open document in a text ed...

Access music in iTunes without adding to
library

Access music in iTunes without adding to
library 04/13/2005 11:13 AM
I have been trying to find a way to access music in iTunes without adding it to the library for a while now. My library is perfectly organized, and I never like having to add random files that I might only listen to once or t...

Web-based iTunes Music Store client and
library

Web-based iTunes Music Store client and
library 04/18/2004 05:39 PM
The Downhill Battle people are hosting a web-based script that searches the iTunes Music Store and allows you to interact with it as though you were using a copy of iTunes itself. The script is open-source, and they hope the script will be used for innovative functionality in other apps, like providing 30-second previews and metadate for tracks on P2P nets. Link (via /.)

RSS Feeds from Catalogs and Other
Library Miscellanea

RSS Feeds from Catalogs and Other
Library Miscellanea 12/09/2003 02:38 AM

Some recent links from library mailing lists:

1. HKUST New Acquistions List - brought to you by RSS! Look in the upper right-hand corner of the page and you'll see a thing of beauty, XML buttons for lists of new books and media. Suh-weet! Oh, and SWAN people - that there is an Innovative catalog!!!! "Things that make you go 'hmmmmmmm....' "
    
2. LibData: Library Web Management System
   "The University of Minnesota Libraries (Twin Cities) announces the open source software release of LibData: Library Web Management System. LibData is a library-oriented web-based application consisting of an integrated database architecture and authoring environment for the publication of subject pathfinders, course-related pages, and all purpose web pages. This application was designed for, but is not limited to, academic and public libraries. LibData was built with open source components (Apache, mySQL, and PHP) and is being offered as open source to the library community under the GNU Public License. The software and its extensive documentation can be downloaded from Plato, a test foundry for the Libraries' Digital Library Development Laboratory (http://plato.lib.umn.edu/) and soon on SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net /projects/libdata/). For more information, please contact John Butler (jbutl@umn.edu), Director, University Libraries Digital Library Development Lab, or Paul Bramscher (brams006@umn.edu), LibData Lead Developer."
    
3. Karen Coyle on DRM and on Amazon "search inside book" feature
   "The talk that I gave at Library of Congress on DRM is available as streaming video from their site. I have also produced a written version of that talk, both in a portable and a read-online version. All are
   linked from my home page: http://www.kcoyle.net. Think of this as a beginner's approach to Digital Rights Management, notan exhaustive (or exhausting!) treatment."

   "The OpeneBook Forum has a library 'special interest group' which is not much more than some librarians, some publishers, and some ebook producers getting together once a week for a conference call. Sometimes the calls are so-so and other times they are extremely interesting. (For more info, see http://www.ope nebook.org/oebf_groups/library.htm)....

   One of the more fascinating tidbits (which didn't make it into the minutes) was a publisher's rep who stated that they had excluded cookbooks from the scanned titles on the assumption that once someone found a recipe they'd not need to buy the book. By error, some of their cookbooks were included in the scanned group and before they could pull them from the search service the sales of those books had exceeded the sales of other scanned books. But they pulled them anyway, probably because they didn't have the proper agreement with the authors." To which Jenny says, "Oy! Publishers shooting selves in foot...." Read the rest of Karen's comments in the WEB4LIB archive.

Innovation Is Passing Library Catalogs
By....

Innovation Is Passing Library Catalogs
By.... 01/05/2005 01:26 AM

It's Like Google Suggest, Only As A Dictionary

“There's been a lot of discussion about Google Suggest, which provides potential words and phrases depending on what you type into the query box. There's a similar tool available using a couple of dictionaries instead of the Web. It's called ObjectGraph Dictionary and it's available at http://www.objectgraph.com/dictionary .

There are two dictionaries being used here; a regular dictionary and FOLDOC (Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing.) The default is regular. I started typing in esuriant and ObjectGraph began cycling through suggestions. the cool thing is that in addition to word listings, the suggestion box also contains definitions. So when you've gotten as far as esuri you'll have four relevant words and their dictionary definitions right there.” [ResearchBuzz]

This kind of feature would be nice in a library catalog, especially for phrase title searches.

Redefining "Quick Search" - IE Plug-in
for Searching Library Catalogs!

Redefining "Quick Search" - IE Plug-in
for Searching Library Catalogs! 12/03/2003 01:51 AM

It's all in the WebPaths, baby...

"From blogdex to Veen to del.icio.us to this wonderful search plug-in for IE – mahvelous!" [jenett.radio]

Give me a moment to think of a word to write other than "WOW!"

Click on the last link in Joe's post if you are a Windows + Internet Explorer user and you like searching library catalogs. While there are several pre-configured search engines available at the site, the Searchy plug-in turns out to be another pipeline into online catalogs that sits completely outside the library world. Like LibraryLookup, anyone can configure the plug-in to work with any OPAC that allows the appropriate type of search strings, and the site even provides a Plug-in Generator.

For example, I played around with SWAN's keyword search and created a registry plug-in that allows me to type searches directly into the address bar in IE. After installing it, I can now type "sk celtic music" and the results of the search in SWAN load in the browser window. In fact, I just tested "sk pirates of the caribbean" and after a few clicks I'm now the 47th hold for the DVD!

I can also configure similar searches for title, author, subject, etc. ("st" for title, "sa" for author, "ss" for subject). I think the keyword plug-in should be visible to you on the Searchy page if you scroll down to "SWAN" - give it a whirl! The installation instructions really are as simple as they sound. (Do note that this installs into the Windows registry, though, so play at your own risk.)

SWAN runs Innovative Interfaces software, so I know III catalogs will work with this. We'll have to test others. I'm no Windows expert (not even close), but theoretically a library should be able to make plug-ins pre-configured for its catalog available from its own web site, right?

Very cool!

Share your iTunes library with iTunes
catalog AND MP3 Sushi

Share your iTunes library with iTunes
catalog AND MP3 Sushi 06/22/2004 09:14 AM
I tried almost avery application to share my iTunes music library, and I came up with the conclusion that MP3 Sushi (for its simplicity) and iTunes Catalog (for its look) are the best solutions. iTunes Catalog would be suffic...

Library to create PostScript files

Library to create PostScript files 11/19/2003 08:10 AM
pslib is back alive on sf

RipDigital: Convert your music CDs to a
digital music library

RipDigital: Convert your music CDs to a
digital music library 01/11/2004 07:57 AM
RipDigital is a bulk CD-ripping operation: send them your CD library and they'll ship your library back in MP3 format .. RipDigital converts your entire CD collection to MP3s for you .. This is an interesting service .. RipDigital

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iTunes 4.5 Marks iTunes Music Store's
First Anniversary (28-Apr-2004; 3.7K)

iTunes 4.5 Marks iTunes Music Store's
First Anniversary (28-Apr-2004; 3.7K) 04/28/2004 05:29 PM

iTunes 4.5 and the iTunes Music Store,
One Year Later (03-May-2004; 15.9K)

iTunes 4.5 and the iTunes Music Store,
One Year Later (03-May-2004; 15.9K) 05/03/2004 09:01 PM

Create CD-R labels with iTunes 4.5

Create CD-R labels with iTunes 4.5 05/17/2004 12:11 PM
New in iTunes 4.5 is the ability to print CD covers. That's great, but what about the CD-R itself? It'd be nice to print a label for the CD, or to print directly on a printable CD-R. You can do it, with just a few steps. You'...

My iTunes Music Server (Or How I Learned
To Stop Worrying And Love Compressed
Music)

My iTunes Music Server (Or How I Learned
To Stop Worrying And Love Compressed
Music) 07/25/2004 05:58 PM
By Matthew Davidson (via MyAppleMenu)

Is This The Announcement Australian
Music Lovers Have Waited For? iTunes
Music Store Comes To Australia?

Is This The Announcement Australian
Music Lovers Have Waited For? iTunes
Music Store Comes To Australia? 12/26/2004 08:28 PM

By Les Posen, CyberPsych Blog

Why Sony Can't Create An iTunes For
Movies

Why Sony Can't Create An iTunes For
Movies 03/31/2005 07:20 AM
As if the content companies haven't already been making fools of themselves with some recent strategic decisions, things are only going to get worse. Sony is now saying that it wants to create an "iTunes for movies," saying it will "set business models, pricing models, distribution models like (Apple chief Steve) Jobs did for music, but for the film industry." First of all, that's simply not going to happen. Sony is in the content business itself -- so its competitors in the movie business probably aren't going to be thrilled about contributing to its movie store. However, even if they can set up business models, pricing models and distribution models just like iTunes, they've totally missed the point. That, alone, is not what made iTunes successful. It's the customer experience. Apple made the customer experience work. They made it easy. While some of their decisions have been less than user friendly concerning copy protection and the forced-iPod connection -- overall it's the user experience that makes iTunes work. That means, for the most part, not treating your customers like criminals. However, Sony's entertainment execs have made it clear that they already view their customers as criminals and will do everything they can to lock all their content down. Hell, just take a look at Sony's widely disparaged alread y existing iTunes clone for music to see how copying the business model isn't nearly enough.

Use iTunes to create MP3 ringtones for
cellphones

Use iTunes to create MP3 ringtones for
cellphones 05/25/2004 10:14 AM
After discovering my phone can play mp3 files as ringtones, I immediately grabbed some of my favorite songs and tried to crop and convert them. After trying to do so using Quicktime Pro and iTunes (far more hassle then it's...

DEMO Achieves a Historical Milestone by
Presenting the First Digital Music
Certification Award to Apple iTunes
Music Store

DEMO Achieves a Historical Milestone by
Presenting the First Digital Music
Certification Award to Apple iTunes
Music Store 08/04/2004 02:36 AM
DEMO grants the first Titanium + Certification Award to the Apple iTunes Music Store on July 29, 2004. [PRWEB Aug 4, 2004]

Create a basic sleep timer in iTunes

Create a basic sleep timer in iTunes 12/02/2003 11:03 AM
To create the equivalent of a sleep timer in iTunes:Create a smart playlist Limit it to a certain amount of time (have it select songs at random) Check the Live Updating boxTo change the songs that it plays, select all songs ...

Create interesting (abstract) graphics
with iTunes

Create interesting (abstract) graphics
with iTunes 03/19/2003 10:24 PM
Here's a simple hint on an easy way to create attractive abstract images for personal use (for the Desktop, Photoshop backgrounds, on iCards, etc.) with iTunes:Turn visual effects on in iTunes, preferably full screen Capture...

App lets you create Web catalog of
iTunes libraries

App lets you create Web catalog of
iTunes libraries 11/03/2003 11:13 AM
KavaSoft has announced iTunes Catalog 1.0, a US$10, Mac OS X compatible application for creating Web catalogs of your iTunes music library.

Create an iTunes 'work safe' smart
playlist

Create an iTunes 'work safe' smart
playlist 06/28/2004 11:23 AM
This came while doing some work in a place where we couldn't use headphones, but could listen to music, every now and then we'd run across a song that wasn't... appropriate. First I added a rule to my Smart Playlist I was usi...

Create an iTunes song info bezel with
free tools

Create an iTunes song info bezel with
free tools 08/12/2004 11:15 AM
Although there are many tools out there that can display iTunes song info in a floating window, I created the floating info box at right on my own, using freely available tools: LanOSD -- make sure you have the latest version...

Sony to create "iTunes for movies,"
release 500 films digitally within a
year

Sony to create "iTunes for movies,"
release 500 films digitally within a
year 03/31/2005 11:46 PM
Xeni Jardin: At a conference in Santa Monica today, Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment SVP Michael Arrieta said:

"We want to set business models, pricing models, distribution models like (Apple Computer CEO Steve) Jobs did for music, but for the film industry," [said Arrieta], "I'm trying to create the new 'anti-Napster."

To that end, Arrieta said, his group plans to digitize Sony Pictures' top 500 films and make them available for the first time in various digital environments within the next year. He said the distribution for films like "Spider-Man 2" will go beyond just Movielink, the video-on-demand joint venture of Sony Pictures and several other major studios, which to date has hosted a limited library of Sony's movies.

For example, Sony plans to sell and make films available in flash memory for mobile phones in the next year, Arrieta said. It also will further develop its digital stores for downloading and owning films on the PC, he said in an interview. Sony's plans--and similar moves by other studios--are likely to avoid empowering any one technology company--such as Apple in the music equation--and allow studios to pocket more of the profits. The philosophy in Hollywood is "Define your own agenda or someone else will for you."

Link to ZDNet story. Previously on Boing Boing: The Cuban Revolution

iTunes Library Manager v3.0.1

iTunes Library Manager v3.0.1 04/09/2004 03:59 PM
This AppleScript applet makes backup copies of your iTunes 4 Library database file. Thus you can easily save multiple iTunes Library configurations which can be retrieved and loaded at any time. For OS X only.

Audio DVD Creator 1.20 Create Your Own
Music DVD

Audio DVD Creator 1.20 Create Your Own
Music DVD 05/22/2004 06:44 PM

Audio DVD Creator 1.0 Create Your Own
Music DVD

Audio DVD Creator 1.0 Create Your Own
Music DVD 04/25/2004 07:00 AM

Body movement to create music

Body movement to create music 07/12/2004 03:44 AM
Scientists are developing ways of capturing human movement to make music by simple gestures.

Digital Hub: Create Your Own Music Video

Digital Hub: Create Your Own Music Video 07/21/2004 06:01 AM
By Jim Heid, Macworld (via MyAppleMenu)

Audio DVD Creator 1.70 Create Your Own
Music DVD

Audio DVD Creator 1.70 Create Your Own
Music DVD 08/11/2004 08:44 PM

See who's listening to what on a shared
iTunes library

See who's listening to what on a shared
iTunes library 08/04/2004 11:43 AM
Wanna know who is listening to your iTunes library? Use the Rendezwho widget for Konfabulator. I have some issues with it, but I know of no other application that does what it does. Unfortunately it can't tell you anything o...

Publish iTunes 4.5 library and playlists
to the web

Publish iTunes 4.5 library and playlists
to the web 05/03/2004 10:44 AM
I just had one of those Eureka moments. Instead of futzing around with iTunes and Excel to make music lists, I just need to use the new iTunes 4.5. I don't know how Apple does it, but it just keeps getting better. Of course t...

Music merger to create new giant label

Music merger to create new giant label 11/06/2003 09:38 PM
ZDNet Nov 6 2003 8:32PM ET

HP teams with Apple to create music
player

HP teams with Apple to create music
player 01/08/2004 07:29 PM
Apple and HP have announced a partnership for a "HP-branded digital music player based on Apple's iPod." Part of the deal is that iTunes will be shipped on every HP computer (with an icon on the desktop), which should boost sales from the iTunes Music Store. Look for the new player this summer. Thoughts?

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Notes and Tips: iTunes 4.5 Library Limit

Notes and Tips: iTunes 4.5 Library Limit 05/06/2004 10:07 AM
iTunes 4.5 can't handle shared libraries if they're too large.

Share an iTunes library among multiple
users (revisited)

Share an iTunes library among multiple
users (revisited) 02/16/2004 11:55 AM
I wrote a step by step guide that will allow you to painlessly share one iTunes Music library among several users on one machine. This even works with fast user switching under Panther, such that the currently active user wil...

Stop iTunes from saving to default
Library location

Stop iTunes from saving to default
Library location 07/20/2004 09:42 AM
I have my iTunes library on a remote machine (a SnapServer SAN device, actually). This is all well and good, but if iTunes loses its connectivity to the device, then it silently starts saving files to ~/Music -> iTunes Music...

Music Library 1.2.5

Music Library 1.2.5 01/25/2004 01:51 AM
A music library for phpGroupware.
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Asterisk for Windows

Asterisk for Windows 09/07/2004 02:27 PM
Digium and N2Net have released AstWind — Asterisk for Windows. It's a bit of a cheat using CoLinux to do...

Asterisk now available for Microsoft
Windows

Asterisk now available for Microsoft
Windows 09/23/2004 11:51 PM

Share iPod contents via iTunes

Share iPod contents via iTunes 04/23/2004 10:49 AM
If you're like me, you bring your iPod to work so that you can listen to your tunes without copying them to your work computer. If you always set your work computer to "Manually manage songs and playlists" and your home compu...

iTunes remote control

iTunes remote control 12/19/2004 03:43 PM
back to our regular geek'o'rama: Paul Mison noticed that iTunes 4.7 is advertising a _dacp._tcp service. It looks like they are preparing to support a remote control type thing. Ed Despard is guessing it's a "digital audio control protocol.". (This is from the daap-dev mailinglist, which doesn't have a proper archive -- daap-dev-subscribe at develooper.com to subscribe) In related completely inconsequential news I've had great success using the rating feature in iTunes and with the iPod mini. With auto-syncing...

Share iTunes libraries with older Macs

Share iTunes libraries with older Macs 05/25/2004 10:14 AM
iTunes is the best jukebox on the market, but I have always bemoaned its support for legacy hardware. Each of my three daughters has a PowerMac 5500 running OS 8.6 (the last OS to properly support their TV Tuner cards). I h...

Share both iTunes and internet via
Airport Express

Share both iTunes and internet via
Airport Express 01/04/2005 08:50 AM
This tip explains some not-altogether-straightforward trickery involved to share one's iTunes library, connection to AirPort Express speakers, and internet connection together. My Mac is connected to the internet via an ADSL ...

Access iTunes On A Remote Machine

Access iTunes On A Remote Machine 11/18/2003 01:21 AM
If you've got the name, password, and IP of a remote machine on your network, accessing its copy of iTunes and music files is pretty easy.

10.3: Make remote AppleScripts work with
iTunes

10.3: Make remote AppleScripts work with
iTunes 12/09/2003 10:59 AM
I have done several unsuccessful trials at controlling iTunes on my second Mac via AppleScript. Although I had switched on "Remote Apple Events" in the Sharing preference pane, I always got something like "Can't authenticate...

iTunes dwarfs Napster sales; holds 80%
market share

iTunes dwarfs Napster sales; holds 80%
market share 11/06/2003 03:54 PM
Apple said today that 1.5 million songs were downloaded from the iTunes Music Store during the same period that Napster reported selling 300,000 songs...

[security bulletin] SSRT4779 - rev.0
HP-UX Netscape NSS Library Suite SSLv2
remote buffer overflow

[security bulletin] SSRT4779 - rev.0
HP-UX Netscape NSS Library Suite SSLv2
remote buffer overflow 08/27/2004 01:32 PM
Boren, Rich (SSRT) (Aug 25 2004)

Windows XP SP1 Share Permission Changes

Windows XP SP1 Share Permission Changes 05/25/2004 10:18 PM

Windows share will fall, says IDC

Windows share will fall, says IDC 04/23/2004 06:40 AM
Computer Weekly Apr 23 2004 11:07AM GMT

Remote Assistance in Windows XP

Remote Assistance in Windows XP 08/22/2004 10:47 PM

iTunes 4.1.1 is available for Windows XP
and Windows 2000

iTunes 4.1.1 is available for Windows XP
and Windows 2000 10/29/2003 01:14 AM

Microsoft to Share Windows CE Source
Code

Microsoft to Share Windows CE Source
Code 06/28/2004 02:50 PM
The software giant will include expanded source licensing in Windows CE 5.0, due out July 9.

Mount Remote Folders in Windows

Mount Remote Folders in Windows 02/10/2004 02:49 AM

How to Create and Manipulate NTFS Junction Points: This is awfully handy. It allows you to map a drive, but map it to a local folder, instead of using a drive letter. So as you traverse your directory tree, you could drop into a remote folder that appears it be local. Very Linux-ish.

You can surpass the 26 drive letter limitation by using NTFS junction points. By using junction points, you can graft a target folder onto another NTFS folder or "mount" a volume onto an NTFS junction point. Junction points are transparent to programs.

Via asymptomatic.net, the author of which I still haven't forgiven for diss ing Firebird (but, he did get me to subscribe to his blog, so I've been skillfully manipulated nonetheless...)

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Top Tip: Remote hosting...Windows to
Linux?

Top Tip: Remote hosting...Windows to
Linux? 05/31/2004 11:34 PM
Ok..heres the thing..setting up a server that will be running Debian, in order for me to keep cost down I need to be able to do basic upkeep remotely over the internet. My system at home uses win2k and I would rather not install a full linux to it (I do use knoppix from time to time)..what are some good programs that cross from one to the other for this?

Process Library for windows

Process Library for windows 09/16/2004 07:01 PM
or, "what's all that crap running on my PC?"

Microsoft Share Windows Tools Via Open
Source

Microsoft Share Windows Tools Via Open
Source 05/13/2004 07:55 PM
Microsoft posted to SourceForge its Windows Template Library, a series of code snippets designed to make it easier for developers to create graphic interfaces for Windows programs. By Ina Fried, CNET News.com (via MyAppleMenu)

Windows Template Library (WTL) 7.1
released

Windows Template Library (WTL) 7.1
released 12/11/2003 12:03 PM
Windows Template Library (WTL) is a library for developing Windows® applications and UI components. It extends ATL (Active Template Library) and provides a set of classes for controls, dialogs, frame windows, GDI objects, and more. This version provides full support for Visual Studio .NET 2003 and Windows XP. It also adds support for the Windows CE platform.

Create Web catalogs of your iTunes music library

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