From: Mike Cargal <mike@...>
Date: 2007-07-21T10:43:25+09:00
Subject: Re: parsing iTunes Libary

I also recently needed to parse the AlbumData.xml.  Started into it with 
REXML and realized that it was becoming something of a pain do to the 
rather inane XML that Apple uses.  So I searched around and found the 
plist gem.  It parses it (and other files that use the same strucure_ 
and gives you hashmaps that you can navigate rather easily.

It is probably slower than the regex code here and it loads everything 
into memory.  But I found it pretty helpful.

Ryan Davis wrote:
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> On Jul 20, 2007, at 05:40 , cypher.dp@gmail.com wrote:
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>> I thought about writing something like that:
>> http://code.google.com/p/itunes-to-rhythmbox-ratings/
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>> I wanted to parse the library with REXML but the file is quite big.
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>> Is there a possibility to parse only a part of the file ?
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> I just use regular expressions:
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> http://blog.zenspider.com/archives/2007/03/that_stupid_thing_i_wrote_the_other_day_part_2.html 
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