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Monday, November 2, 2009

Fix iTunes LPs on AppleTV 3.0

Most of the community created iTunes LPs don't work on AppleTV 3.0. This is related to the problem I detailed earlier with the manifest.xml. To fix getting them into iTunes 9.0.2 I suggested you add an almost empty manifest.xml; however it seems that isn't enought for the AppleTV support to work. User phenom posted a comment with some hints to a possible fix. Now I've been able to get something working consistently (thanks to some help by user rob by adding a requirements XML section to the manifest.xml and updating the version identifiers in that manifest, which would result in something like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<manifest xmlns="http://apple.com/itunes/media_archive/manifest" version="1.0" media_archive_version="2.0">
    <requirements>
        <supported_platforms>
            <platform name="iTunes" minimum_version="9.0"/>
            <platform name="AppleTV" minimum_version="3.0"/>
        </supported_platforms>
    </requirements>
</manifest>
Note that this will only enable syncing and NOT navigating those LPs on the AppleTV. I'm still working out some things about how to get navigation working properly, but I should have something ready for that soon. I'll update the tutorials soon. And I'll try to get to work with the developers of the iTunes LPs on the website now to get those updated and working as well.

2 Comments:

Blogger derkili said...

Hi,
is there a way to access the internet within an iTunes LP?

Thanks
Kilian

November 4, 2009 12:35 AM  
Blogger Solitude said...

Depends on what kind of thing you're looking to do. Opening a weblink from in an LP for example is easy. I think using AJAX type coding you could probably do some other stuff as well, but I'm haven't experimented much with that.

Any way, opening a web link is a easy as adding a _target="blank" to your a href link.

November 4, 2009 9:52 AM  

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