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iPod and iTunes Hacks

by Hadley Stern
October 2004
Beginner to intermediate
456 pages
12h 36m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Create a Web Page to Display Your iTunes Library

Want to share your excellent taste in music with your buddies? This hack will show you how to take your iTunes library data and export it as a web page for all the world to see.

Back in the day, you used to show with pride your immense CD collection (or, if you go way back, your LP collection). Now that so many of us have iPods, it is hard to share with your friends and family your excellent taste in music. This hack will allow you to show off your digital tunes in a digital fashion on the World Wide Web.

On the Mac

First, get hold of Kavasoft’s iTunes Catalog (http://www.kavasoft.com/iTunes Catalog/index.html; $9.99; free demo available) . After downloading and installing the program, go ahead and launch it. The free demo will work on letters A–E of your collection. You can always try this hack out, and if you love what iTunes Catalog does for you, go ahead and purchase it.

If you’ve purchased music from the iTunes Music Store, the associated cover artwork should be in iTunes, and if you’ve already taken a stab at “Work with Album Artwork” [Hack #56] , you should have all your album artwork in iTunes. If you haven’t yet, go take a peek at the hack and import all your album artwork into iTunes. You don’t have to have the artwork available for this hack to work, but your web page will look a lot snazzier if you do. If you already have ...

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