musicarteca Posted February 1, 2006 Posted February 1, 2006 Is it possible to design an iTunes type database with FMP?, or the question better rephrased: Could FMP be the ideal application for a solution like that? What are the limitations?
Fenton Posted February 1, 2006 Posted February 1, 2006 (edited) You can certainly play music from iTunes from Filemaker, using AppleScript. I would think that creating an iTunes replacement that worked cross-platform would require either a plug-in(s), or extensive knowledge of command line on both platforms. Besides the fact that you would be competing against applications which already did it very well. Take a look at this thread for a couple of sample files I built that play iTunes. That part is not complicated. But it is Mac-only. http://www.fmforums.com/forum/showtopic.php?tid/170334/post/178459/hl/iTunes+Fenton/#178459 It also doesn't do anything about importing the current iTunes library tracks listing. That is also possible, either via tabbed text import, or via xml import. The attached is a plain file that imports my iTunes xml library. It doesn't go look for the iTunes library however. That would be possible also, using AppleScript. This would be the 1st part of the path: path to music folder as text iTunesLibrary_to_FM.zip Edited February 1, 2006 by Guest path to music folder
musicarteca Posted February 1, 2006 Author Posted February 1, 2006 (edited) I am sorry, I didn't explain myself quite well, I meant iTunes music store, in other words, a database web site where anyone can download music in mp3 format for a fee. Edited February 1, 2006 by Guest
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