Quote: Originally Posted by
NeonDev 
so I'm thinking that maybe it would be a good idea for you to simply have your app traverse a folder hierarchy since that seems to support not only itunes structure but also those of win/linux based media players. that way your app isn't dependent on itunes.xml or any other itunes file. Its prolly not terribly difficult either.
yeah that is exactly what i am going to do. AIR makes it really easy to traverse a folder and all of its sub folders. in fact that is what i am already doing with my album art app. what i am going to do is traverse the folders and while i am doing that i will build my own xml to map out the artist/albums/songs/album art/etc. this way i can get away from iTune's horribly formatted xml file. this will actually give me nice performance boosts since i wont be having to make ridiculously long e4x queries to find a given song. as you have pointed out earlier, this will also allow me not have to do a import (what AMP had to do) to add new music.