Export to iTunes

[markstuartwalker]

I created this script as a work around for losing iPhone 3.0 sync capability im MM 3.1. http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=38181&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=120

Basically it exports the selected playlist into iTunes and then triggers the iTunes sync function. iTunes 8.2 supports the iPhone 3.0 (of course). It some ways this is a retrograde step as it adds another level between MM and my iPhone but the iTunes layer is pretty transparent.

http://rapidshare.com/files/257883820/ExportToItunes_2.1.0.mmip.html

The implementation uses the COM interface into iTunes which Apple seem apply to publish and maintain so it would seem more worthwhile to pursue rather than repeatedly chase the ever evolving iTunes DB format.

Is this worth pursuing? I'm thinking of adding

* Options page for miscellaneous settings (autosync, path separator etc)
* Playlists in iTunes page to view what is currently synchronised and allow removal of playlists
* Playcount synchronisation

All versions can be found at http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=b7ee1dea9ccc4c976b21be4093fab7ac4a498e1236d0a01e5621d66e282a0ee8

Comments welcome.

Mark

[nynaevelan]

This is something that I would not mind using but not for the iphone syncronization, so if possible could it be user configurable whether the sync is triggered in itunes, and of course playcounts are very important. My son prefers itunes so on a weekly basis I use the export to itunes xml script to export the library but due to the limitations of itunes, I have to wipe the library each time before running it and it does not offer any controls over what is exported.

Nyn

[markstuartwalker]

There is a single line in the script that triggers the synchronisation. Delete the line and it's perfect for you.

This was one of the switches that I was going to add to the options page.

[nynaevelan]

This is the change I made, is this correct??

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'sub sync

 '   initProgress "Synchronising", 0
  '  iTunesApp.UpdateIPod   

'end sub

Nyn

[markstuartwalker]

Perfect

[markstuartwalker]

Whoops! This is correct

sub sync

' initProgress "Synchronising", 0
' iTunesApp.UpdateIPod

end sub

[nynaevelan]

Yes that worked, and you are right, once the playcounts are added this will work perfectly. One little thing, this is not a major concern but I have my playlists nested within playlists and when they are exported to itunes they include the parent playlist in the title, can this be changed? If not, don't worry about it, I can live with it.

Nyn

[markstuartwalker]

Strangely, the parent folder names were added as a request of someone else.

Try this slight modification in the code ...

function getFullMmName( tree, node )

dim n : n = node.caption

getFullMmName = n

end function

... pretty soon you'll have rewritten it all.

[nynaevelan]

I'm a little confused, am I commenting out all the lines between those sections?? These lines here:

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    dim i : for i = 1 to 10
        set p = tree.ParentNode(p)

        if p is nothing then exit for
        if p.caption = "" then exit for
        if p.caption = "Playlists" then exit for
        if p.caption = "Imported m3u playlists" then exit for

        n = p.Caption + dirSeparator + n
    next

[markstuartwalker]

Yes

[nynaevelan]

Works perfectly, now I will patiently wait for you to add the ability to sync playcounts. Out of curiosity what are the zzz playlists for?

Nyn

[codecrafter]

Mark,

The script fails in copyPlaylist() at 'Set os = p2.AddFile(p1.tracks.item(j).path)' if processing a .wma file. Other non-iPhone playable files will probably also fail.

For a hack to skip .wma files, add if/end if statements:

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            if not right(p1.tracks.item(j).path, 4) = ".wma" then
                Set os = p2.AddFile(p1.tracks.item(j).path)
                if not os is nothing then
                    While os.InProgress
                    Wend
                end if
                countProgress
            end if


Does anyone know if it's possible to do a 'Convert Track Format' from a script? Other threads seem to indicate no. It would be nice to find some way to get autoconversion in the loop so that this script will work more like syncing to the iPhone used to work.

Also, I wonder if http://www.mediafire.com would be a better home for the script than rapidshare (to avoid the download limit).

[markstuartwalker]

Yes, thanks for the bugfix and the Mediafire hint.

Here is 2.1 again http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=b7ee1dea9ccc4c976b21be4093fab7ace04e75f6e8ebb871

It has been pointed out elsewhere about the file format compatibility. In the future I shall modify the script to transfer only mp3 files as a bit of self-protection. auto-convertion might come in a much later version.

Mark

[m1abrams]

Does anyone know if it's possible to do a 'Convert Track Format' from a script? Other threads seem to indicate no. It would be nice to find some way to get autoconversion in the loop so that this script will work more like syncing to the iPhone used to work.

Also, I wonder if http://www.mediafire.com would be a better home for the script than rapidshare (to avoid the download limit).

Well the iTunes API does have liTunes::ConvertFile2() method so it does look possible. I have not written anything that uses this method though. Note you will only be able to convert to formats that iTunes supports obviously and the encoders/decoders that iTunes has access to. It means you should be able to convert from ALAC to AAC, but you would not be able to go from FLAC to MP3.

[nynaevelan]

Yes, thanks for the bugfix and the Mediafire hint.

Here is 2.1 again http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=b7ee1dea9ccc4c976b21be4093fab7ace04e75f6e8ebb871

It has been pointed out elsewhere about the file format compatibility. In the future I shall modify the script to transfer only mp3 files as a bit of self-protection. auto-convertion might come in a much later version.

Mark

Other than the bugfix, what other changes are in version 2.1??

Nyn