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	Saturday, October 31, 2009 Blog added Yes! I managed to force blogger into submission, and found a way to integrate it into the existing site. This should make it much easier to keep you guys up to date about any new discoveries I do. The RSS is also updated and linked to the new blog. If something doesn't quite work please try to remove and add your rss subscription again. I switched RSS formats as well, and some clients might have difficulties with that. posted by Solitude at 4:28 PM 0 Comments iTunes 9.0.2 Community iTunes LP Problems FIXED In the just released 9.0.2 update for iTunes some changes have been made to how iTunes LPs are handled. This causes iTunes to refuse to add some community created iTunes LPs. If you are having trouble adding an iTunes LP to your iTunes music library please re-download the LP from our download page, or if you got the iTunes LP elsewhere see our Getting Started tutorial to see how you can create a manifest.xml. This file is probably missing and is now a required part of the iTunes LP format. To fix any problematic file it should probably be enough to add this file. posted by Solitude at 10:03 AM 0 Comments Friday, October 30, 2009 iTunes 9.0.2 Released: Adds fullscreen iTunes LP and AppleTV 3.0 support Apple just released iTunes 9.0.2 and AppleTV 3.0 . The new iTunes release is mainly intended to add support to the new AppleTV 3.0 software, but also sneaks in a new fullscreen iTunes LP feature sorely missed by users with 1280x800 screens in the previous version. Now 13" MacBook (pro) owners can view the full iTunes LP. iTunes LPs are also now viewable from your AppleTV. We will soon be updating the tutorials to add information on how to add AppleTV Remote navigation to your LPs. posted by Solitude at 6:56 PM 0 Comments Sunday, October 25, 2009 New tutorial added: Monitoring tracks and track changes Normally you know what the current playing track is, because you've explicitly told iTunes to play that particular track. However when playing a playlist it would be nice to be able to know when a track change has occurred so that you can for example automatically change to the correct page with track info. This tutorial shows you exactly how to do that ... posted by Solitude at 2:04 AM 0 Comments Friday, October 23, 2009 Exciting things to be revealed soon I've changed the frontpage of the website to reflect some changes that are coming soon. The tutorial section will soon be expanded with many new guides showing some new things you can do with the format. Check out the updated webpage and see if you can spot what we're planning. posted by Solitude at 2:01 AM 0 Comments New iTunes LPs added: Cartel - Tha Throwback ENHANCED This re-release of Tha Throwback is the first FREE hip hop album in Apple's new iTunes LP format. Named "Tha Throwback" because it's a throwback to a time when hip hop artists actually cared about lyrical content. It features some of the most promising, upcoming MC's in the game. posted by Solitude at 12:07 AM 0 Comments Wednesday, October 21, 2009 New tutorial added: Playing videos This tutorial is mainly concerned with video playback, but the same methods can also be used to playback audio within the iTunes interface. This tutorial describes the code required and how to prepare your video assets ... posted by Solitude at 4:34 AM 0 Comments Monday, October 19, 2009 New iTunes LPs added: Justin Bianco - Kingdom Crumble Kingdom crumble, an album of solo piano compositions, is a mix of moods, all with deliberate, carefully spartan emotive melodies. Now released in a special demo version with four free tracks, graciously made available by Justin Bianco for iTunesLP.net posted by Solitude at 8:32 PM 0 Comments Saturday, October 17, 2009 Tutorial added: Visualizers Visualizers are one of the big new things in iTunes LPs. Click play album and you are presented with nice bobbing visuals to go along with your music. Unfortunately though they aren't really visualizers at all. However iTunes does expose a waveform property which can be used to create real visualizers and in this tutorial we show you how. posted by Solitude at 2:19 AM 0 Comments Friday, October 16, 2009 New iTunes LPs added: Tuesday Spoils - Rabbit Hole Since their inception in late 2006, Tuesday Spoils have been catching eyes and ears with their unique, vibrant sound and enigmatic live shows. They have recently released their new EP as a free download along with an iTunes LP. posted by Solitude at 1:23 AM 0 Comments Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Two new iTunes LPs added Two new community created iTunes LPs have been added to the website. You can now download Kieronononon's EP, Brutal Techno Punk Special and the album Listen by Tryad. posted by Solitude at 11:48 PM 0 Comments iTunesLP.net interviewed iTunesLP.net was interviewed by theDigitalLifestyle.tv. posted by Solitude at 6:28 AM 0 Comments Tutorial added: Controlling iTunes Playing tracks in iTunes is pretty easy. Tracks are exposed as a TrackObject which has a method play which starts playback. How you get access to these track objects however is a bit more difficult. The window.iTunes object is the interface to communicating with iTunes. It exposes several interesting functions and properties but for this tutorial we will focus on getting access to tracks from the music library and playing them ... posted by Solitude at 2:46 AM 0 Comments Tuesday, October 13, 2009 RSS feed added You can now keep up to date by watching our RSS feed. Whenever a tutorial or new iTunes LP is posted you can be updated automatically. posted by Solitude at 10:00 AM 0 Comments iTunesLP.net in the news iTunesLP.net has been getting some press, which in just one day blew away all our available bandwidth. Thankfully that has now all been fixed. Among others Crunchgear and Hack-a-day have posted articles. posted by Solitude at 9:00 AM 0 Comments Monday, October 12, 2009 Tutorial added: Animations iTunes LPs basically run inside a webbrowser embedded into iTunes. This webbrowser is essentially Safari 4.0, a browser based on webkit. The various transitions and animations in iTunes LPs are created using the new CSS3 transition and transform features in webkit, the engine with which Safari and iTunes works ... posted by Solitude at 10:00 AM 0 Comments Tutorial added: Playing background audio Most iTunes LPs start with some kind of background audio playing. Some have that audio playing in a loop whenever no other track is playing. Such an audioloop is automatically played by TuneKit when in the controllers/data.js the audioloop property is set to a valid audio location. However since we won't be using TuneKit we will do it slightly different ... posted by Solitude at 9:00 AM 0 Comments Sunday, October 11, 2009 First tutorial added: Getting Started Probably the best way to get started is to purchase an iTunes LP from the iTunes store. The official albums use a library called TuneKit which is an invaluable resource when trying to create your own LPs. You can look at our downloadable LPs but those do not, for various legal reasons, contain TuneKit. We also only use a small very specific part of the possibilities provided; to understand your options fully ... posted by Solitude at 9:00 AM 0 Comments Saturday, October 10, 2009 iTunesLP.net online The new website iTunesLP.net is online. It contains independently created iTunes LPs and tutorials on how to create your own. posted by Solitude at 9:00 AM 0 Comments	News: 25-11-2009 Official Apple iTunes LP and iTunes Extras Developer documentation 24-11-2009 Handling fonts in iTunes LPs 14-11-2009 iTunes Emulator Progress 08-11-2009 New tutorial added: AppleTV 3.0 and remote control navigation 08-11-2009 AppleTV 3.0.1 Released 05-11-2009 Second AppleTV 3.0 compatible iTunes LP (re)released: Kingdom Crumble 04-11-2009 New: Badges on the download page 04-11-2009 First AppleTV 3.0 compatible iTunes LP (re)released: Rabbit Hole 02-11-2009 Fix iTunes LPs on AppleTV 3.0 01-11-2009 iTunes Emulator Released Archives October 2009 November 2009