NAME
Mac::iTunes::Library - Perl extension for representing an iTunes library
SYNOPSIS
use Mac::iTunes::Library;
my $library = Mac::iTunes::Library->new();
my $item = Mac::iTunes::Library::Item->new(
'Track ID' => 1,
'Name' => 'The Fooiest Song',
'Artist' => 'The Bar Band',
);
$library->add($item);
print "This library has only " . $library->num() . "item.\n";DESCRIPTION
A data structure for representing an iTunes library.
The library keeps track of the number of tracks by each artist (a hash of Artist => num_tracks) and the number of songs in each genre (Genre => num_tracks). Additionally, the total playcounts for each artist (Artist => playcount_of_all_songs) and genre (Genre => playcount_of_all_songs) are tallied. Finally, all of the items in the library are available, sorted by artist.
EXPORT
None by default.
METHODS
new()
Creates a new Mac::iTunes::Library object that can store Mac::iTunes::Library::Item objects.
version()
Get/set the plist version number.
majorVersion()
Get/set the Major Version number
minorVersion()
Get/set the Minor Version number
applicationVersion()
Get/set the Application Version number
features()
Get/set the Features attribute
showContentRatings()
Get/set the Show Content Ratings attribute
musicFolder()
Get/set the Music Folder attribute
libraryPersistentID()
Get/set the Library Persistent ID
num()
Get the number of tracks in the library
size()
Get the total size of the library
time()
Get the total time of the library
artist()
Get the hash of the number of tracks for each artist.
partist()
Get the hash of the number of plays (playcount) for each artist.
albumArtist()
Get the hash of the number of tracks for each albumArtist.
palbumArtist()
Get the hash of the number of plays (playcount) for each albumArtist.
genre()
Get the hash of the number of tracks in each genre.
pgenre()
Get the hash of the number of plays (playcount) for each genre.
type()
Get the hash of item types in the library
items()
Get the hash of Items (Artist->Name->[item, item]) contained in the library; artist names are the top level keys; accessing one gives you a hash-ref with keys of song names and array-refs as values. Those array-refs contain Mac::iTunes::Library::Item objects.
- Example traversal:
-
# Assuming a previously created library %items = $library->items(); foreach my $artist (keys %items) { my $artistSongs = $items{$artist}; foreach my $songName (keys %$artistSongs) { my $artistSongItems = $artistSongs->{$songName}; foreach my $item (@$artistSongItems) { # Do something here to every item in the library print $song->name() . "\n"; } } }
add( Mac::iTunes::Library::Item )
Add an item to the library
SEE ALSO
Mac::iTunes::Library::XML, Mac::iTunes::Library::Item, Mac::iTunes::Library::Playlist
AUTHOR
Drew Stephens <drew@dinomite.net>, http://dinomite.net
CONTRIBUTORS
Mark Grimes <mgrimes@cpan.org>, http://www.peculiarities.com Scott Lawrence (http://linkedin.com/in/scottdlawrence) Garrett Scott <garrett@gothik.org>, (http://www.gothik.org) Mark Allen <mrallen1@yahoo.com>
SOURCE REPOSITORY
http://mac-itunes.googlecode.com
SVN INFO
$Revision: 80 $ $Date: 2010-01-09 23:54:31 -0700 (Sat, 09 Jan 2010) $ $Author: drewgstephens $
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2007-2008 by Drew Stephens
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.