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Turns out it's a simple matter of reading the iTunes music library XML catalog file on a customer's computer, and using that to create a sync capability for the
by btn 17y ago
Turns out it's a simple matter of reading the iTunes music library XML catalog file on a customer's computer, and using that to create a sync capability for the Pre.
The author seems to mistakenly believe that this XML file is a documented and supported format for third-party interoperability with iTunes. It's not. The DTD he links to is that of plist files in general, and does not describe how iTunes stores its application-specific information in the file. The quote from the support article is not a message to third-party developers that they should use this file, simply a statement to users that it is used by other applications.
The only documented and supported methods of interacting with iTunes are with visualisation plug-ins, AppleScript, and the COM API.