[briahn06]

Hey there. I want to create a very simple (or so I think) iTunes plugin. The plugin would make it easy to export and upload a playlist to my website, where it would be parsed in PHP and handled accordingly. I imagine just a menu entry coming up when a user ctrl/right-clicks on a playlist that says, "Upload to [blah]". I haven't seen any plugins that do this though, so it might not be possible. However, I am open to any and the easiest solution.

I've been searching google for anything similar, but couldn't find much help. Some keywords I came up with that might (or might not) have something to do with my intended project: XCode, Cocoa, AppleScript, Automator.

Could someone point me in the right direction? possibly suggest some tutorials I could look at? what languages I need to learn? anything?

Thanks in advance, Brian.

[Brass]

Download the iTunes visualizer plug-in SDK here: Apple - Development Kits

Even if you don't want to write a visualizer, this is the only (supported) way of writing plug-ins for iTunes. Eg, I used this API a long time ago to write an iTunes plug-in to control playback using the keyboard when any application is front-most (using customisable keys).

The API is not Cocoa and is not Objective-C, but it is C, so I was able to write my plug-in using Cocoa/Objective-C, with just a few required non-Objective-C wrapper calls here and there.

Works nicely.