iTunes 4.5 has COM interface...

[GreenMonkey]

Now that Apple have released a COM interface to iTunes, is it feasible for BeSweet to use iTunes for producing m4a soundtracks?

[bond]

more info about this here (http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1084819754.html)

apple provides a SDK to allow interfacing of Windows apps with iTunes 4.5 now:
http://developer.apple.com/sdk/itunescomsdk.html

altough apples aac encoder is the best qualitywise available, it still only offers cbr and no multichannel (therefore i am not sure if it would be that good for movie soundtracks)
i would be happier about support for faac :)

[KpeX]

Originally posted by bond

i would be happier about support for faac :) ditto ;)

[hans-jürgen]

Originally posted by KpeX
ditto ;) Look out for the new version of HeadAC3he... ;)

[hans-jürgen]

Yesterday DarkAvenger published a new alpha version of HeadAC3he with FAAC support on the german Doom9.org forum in this thread:

http://forum.gleitz.info/showthread.php?t=13202&page=2

Please report any problems either here or there, and keep in mind that it's a brand-new alpha version, so bugs are possible, e.g. with the multichannel mapping. By the way, HeadAC3he uses libfaac.dll, the standard output plugin for CDex and and WinLAME, so this should also work with BeSweet.

[jcsston]

I had looked at the iTunes COM interface SDK and it doesn't seem to provide interfaces for en/decoding files. :(
From what I saw it was geared toward interfacing with the media library, playlist control, and playback control.

[Ac3Dc3]

Hey,

if any1s had a look at this SDK package, and knows something about Visual Basic .net, can you please tell me what im doing wrong ?
I have a reference in the solution explorer, on my windows applicaion, to the iTunesLib. But this simple code doesnt want to work - iTunesApp.PlayFile is underlined and i get the error, "Reference to a non-shared member requires an object reference." This is my script.

-------------------------------------------Code Starts Here

Imports iTunesLib

Public Class Form1
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form

Windows Form Designer generated code

Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
Dim iTunesApp As New iTunesApp
End Sub

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
iTunesApp.PlayFile("C:\MyFile.wav")
End Sub
End Class

-------------------------------------------Code Ends Here

any help is appreciated!

Ac3Dc3.

[Ac3Dc3]

:o i had to take Dim iTunesApp As New iTunesApp out of the MyBase.Load sub and put it at the beginning of the Form1 class. either way, i dropped this project because, after thorough anaylsis of this light-weight SDK (compared to the WMP 9 SDK), i have to agree with jcsston in that its definately not geared toward en/decoding. its a shame to see such a good cbr .aac encoder go to waste :mad:

ac3dc3:devil: