ITL (iTunes Library) Format

Question

I´m developing a Java solution for manage an iTunes Library (ITL file). The ITL format is a propietary one. I'm looking for an implementation or a documentation about ITL format but Google can't find anything useful.

Does anyone have experience about that? Where to find more information?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

There is an open source project called titl that sounds exactly what you're looking for.

The repository is here: https://github.com/josephw/titl

Answer 2

iTunes has an api that you can use to inform iTunes of changes without having to modifying the iTunes ITL file directly. On OSX you can use Applescript, on Windows a DLL that Ive manipulate using Jacob and Java

Answer 3

Most of the time, Apple folks uses preferences list format (or its XML counterpart). As an example, it is the case for iPoho Library file. I have had success parsing this file using commons configuration in the past. Maybe you could try it.