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Wednesday, November 4, 2009

First AppleTV 3.0 compatible iTunes LP (re)released: Rabbit Hole

It's been a few hectic days. Apple released a new version of iTunes (9.0.2) and an revamped version of it's AppleTV software. To get the current selection of iTunes LPs working with both of them required quite a bit of reverse engineering. The most significant thing they added is support for the AppleTV's remote controls to interact with the LPs. This is basically done by detecting keypresses which are mapped to remote control keys. I've gotten the first iTunes LP converted and working on AppleTV 3.0. You can now download an updated version of the iTunes LP: Rabbit Hole by Tuesday Spoils.

I'm also working on creating a tutorial to show you how you can do this yourself, and am working on updating the iTunes Emulator so you can better test this new platform for iTunes LPs. Tutorials for all this stuff should be up somewhere this weekend. There are a few interesting things about to happen (which I can't say too much about yet) which are taking up more time than I'd hoped. Stay tuned!

1 Comments:

Anonymous Universal Indie Records said...

Can't wait to hear about those "interesting things".. lol
Also, I would definitely like to get my next itunesLP working on on Apple TV so I'm definitely watching and waiting for that tutorial.

November 5, 2009 2:09 PM  

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