iTMS-4-ALL
by Volker Weber
Jason Rohrer has reverse-engineered the proprietary and encyrpted protocol between iTunes and the iTunes Music Store (iTMS) and implemented a Perl script. Now the possibilities are endless: from "borrowing" the iTunes data for use in other apps to a full-fledged iTMS client for Linux.
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Hmm, how many days till the lawyers roll in? I hereby propose a new unit for measuring that time: the lawyer-day.
(So, how many lawyer-days do we give this project to live? The bets are up ... ;-)
Who cares? The 'damage' is done. Until Apple releases a new version of iTunes and iTMS and updates the proprietary protocol once again to work around the re-engineering.
Here's an interesting site that converted the Perl interface into PHP. I think if he's using PHP it is going to be a lot easier for other web site to follow, since the Perl implemetation of itms-4-all is quite difficult because of the decryption library that needed to be installed the web site.
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Contrary to the last comment, the crypt modules for it to work aren't, in fact, hard to install at all; doing it by hand, or using the excellent CPAN.pm module is easy and takes but a few minutes.
From looking at the original iTMS-4-ALL program, it's apparent it was quickly thrown together: no modular code, content embedded in the program, poor formatting, et cetera. To facilitate further development (including my own -- I'm working on web frontends for Downhill Battle), I've written a couple Perl modules that do the behind the scenes work and processing of the XML.
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