Creating an iTunes Plug-in

• J. Todd Slack Creating an iTunes Plug-in Feb 16 2008, 17:19
  Hello All,
  
  OS X 10.5.2
  iTunes 7.6
  
  I need to create a non visual iTunes plugin and I don't see in Xcode where
  to setup the project.
  
  Also, is there an SDK, I don't see anything but a "visual iTunes SDK" on
  developer.apple.com.
  
  Does anyone have an example?
  
  Does anyone have an article on creating iTunes and iPhoto Plugins?
  
  Thanks!
  
  -Jason
• Mike Abdullah Re: Creating an iTunes Plug-in Feb 16 2008, 18:06
  On 16 Feb 2008, at 16:19, J. Todd Slack wrote:
  
  

  > Hello All,
  >
  > OS X 10.5.2
  > iTunes 7.6
  >
  > I need to create a non visual iTunes plugin and I don't see in Xcode
  > where
  > to setup the project.
  

  
  There is no official support for non-visualiser plugins to iTunes.
  

  >
  >
  > Also, is there an SDK, I don't see anything but a "visual iTunes
  > SDK" on
  > developer.apple.com.
  >
  > Does anyone have an example?
  >
  > Does anyone have an article on creating iTunes and iPhoto Plugins?
  >
  > Thanks!
  >
  > -Jason
  
• has Re: Creating an iTunes Plug-in Feb 16 2008, 18:48
  J. Todd Slack wrote:
  
  

  > I need to create a non visual iTunes plugin and I don't see in Xcode
  > where
  > to setup the project.
  >
  > Also, is there an SDK, I don't see anything but a "visual iTunes
  > SDK" on
  > developer.apple.com.
  

  
  I believe that's your lot as far as iTunes plugins go. Other options:
  
  - iTunes has a fairly extensive, if slightly quirky, Apple event
  interface; e.g. see <http://dougscripts.com> for a whole load of
  iTunes-related AppleScripts. Best option for controlling iTunes from
  ObjC is objc-appscript (see my sig. for links); there's also Leopard's
  Scripting Bridge, but it has some compatibility problems.
  
  - iTunes puts out track change notifications, which you can listen for
  via NSDistributedNotificationCenter. Get yourself a copy of
  Notification Watcher <http://www.tildesoft.com/Programs.html> to
  examine further.
  
  HTH
  
  has
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