Converting Your iTunes Library To Html

Contents:
1. Introduction

Why CCTunes might be perfect for you. Why it might not be too.

2. About the XML file

About the XML File iTunes generates when you export your library.

3. Prerequisites

What you need to do in order to use CCTunes properly. How to set your ID3 tags for your mp3 files.

4. Compiling the Package

How you get to compile the package yourself, also how the binaries of xml starlet were compiled.

5. Converting the XML file

First we are going to convert the XML file to something that is more like ... an XML file.

6. Getting the images out of the mp3 files

We need to get the images out of the mp3 files, they're in there somewhere. This section explains how to get them out.

7. Naming Files

Naming the files produced by CCTunes on a per album basis

8. Making HTML

When we've got nice XML, how do we make it into HTML?

9. One Simple Package

Even though it's really a shell script, Mac users will never notice it.

10. Tips and Tricks

Usage tips.

11. Conclusion

Sum up the baseline

12. Future Wishlist and Todo

What we wish to do in the near and distant future.

13. Resources

Overview of links and ideas and tools used while creating and using CCTunes.



Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
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Updated $LastChangedDate: 2005-01-07 20:53:38 +0100 (Fri, 07 Jan 2005) $
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Kristof Van Landschoot
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Summary: This is a short description of the things I did to get my library published from the XML file that iTunes keeps to a simple HTML file, album based.
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Copyright 2003-2004 Coin-C bvba. Questions, Comments, Corrections? Email cctunes@coin-c.com.