songID <-> iOS's iTunesID ?

[moonbahrir]

Hello, Thank you for this awesome ANE, however I have a problem regarding IDs. When I call the picker with downloadedSongsOnly = false, All my iTunes library can be accessed. When I pick a song from an album, I would like to be able to play the next track of the album after the current song is finished. I have all the info via the iTunes API (artwork for example) but I can't make a call like this: SongPicker.instance.playSong(nextTrackITunesID) because you're using some kind of internal ID which has nothing to do with iTunesID...

Any help would be appreciated ;) Thanks!

[richpixel]

Hi

playSong() is looking for a persistent media ID for the song; MPMediaItemPropertyPersistentID https://developer.apple.com/reference/mediaplayer/mpmediaitempropertypersistentid

Is there any way you can get that ID from your query? It would probably be nice if that function took more properties that could be used to query a specific song, such as title+artist, etc. but that would take some refactoring in the ane.

-rich

On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 5:05 AM, moonbahrir [email protected] wrote:

Hello, Thank you for this awesome ANE, however I have a problem regarding IDs. When I call the picker with downloadedSongsOnly = false, All my iTunes library can be accessed. When I pick a song from an album, I would like to be able to play the next track of the album after the current song is finished. I have all the info via the iTunes API (artwork for example) but I can't make a call like this: SongPicker.instance.playSong(nextTrackITunesID) because you're using some kind of internal ID which has nothing to do with iTunesID...

Any help would be appreciated ;) Thanks!

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[moonbahrir]

I'm not sure what query you're talking about...from the iTunes api? If so I don't think it is possible, I'm double checking this right now and let you know ;)

[moonbahrir]

I didn't found any kind of correlation between these IDs in AS3. :(

[richpixel]

How are you making a call to the iTunes API to retrieve data about the album? I'm not familiar with it...

On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 11:46 AM, moonbahrir [email protected] wrote:

I didn't found any kind of correlation between these IDs in AS3. :(

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[moonbahrir]

They have two types of searches: https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=jack+johnson and https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=909253

I use the first one, with my SongPickerEvent.artist + albumTitle to be the most accurate possible (and "&country=fr" to ask the iTunesStore I want).

The return json is as it follows:

{
 "resultCount":26,
 "results": [

{"wrapperType":"track",
"kind":"song",
"artistId":402914092,
"collectionId":692209301,
"trackId":692209624,
"artistName":"Edi Casabella",
"collectionName":"Préludes des rêves (En attendant l'album) - EP",
"trackName":"J'espère que tu danses",
"collectionCensoredName":"Préludes des rêves (En attendant l'album) - EP",
"trackCensoredName":"J'espère que tu danses",
"artistViewUrl":"https://itunes.apple.com/fr/artist/edi-casabella/id402914092?uo=4",
"collectionViewUrl":"https://itunes.apple.com/fr/album/jespere-que-tu-danses/id692209301?i=692209624&uo=4",
"trackViewUrl":"https://itunes.apple.com/fr/album/jespere-que-tu-danses/id692209301?i=692209624&uo=4",
"previewUrl":"http://a1610.phobos.apple.com/us/r30/Music6/v4/fa/b2/07/fab207d8-1770-faf5-f52b-2a0ad4c42c93/mzaf_7331607619461314658.plus.aac.p.m4a",
"artworkUrl30":"http://is2.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music4/v4/a0/37/0c/a0370cff-b6a5-5f8a-2f1b-fe1d7279465d/source/30x30bb.jpg",
"artworkUrl60":"http://is2.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music4/v4/a0/37/0c/a0370cff-b6a5-5f8a-2f1b-fe1d7279465d/source/60x60bb.jpg",
"artworkUrl100":"http://is2.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music4/v4/a0/37/0c/a0370cff-b6a5-5f8a-2f1b-fe1d7279465d/source/100x100bb.jpg",
"collectionPrice":2.49,
"trackPrice":1.29,
"releaseDate":"2012-01-13T08:00:00Z",
"collectionExplicitness":"notExplicit",
"trackExplicitness":"notExplicit",
"discCount":1,
"discNumber":1,
"trackCount":4,
"trackNumber":1,
"trackTimeMillis":168840,
"country":"FRA",
"currency":"EUR",
"primaryGenreName":"Pop",
"isStreamable":true},
...
]}

The trackID is the ID I'm trying to match with the MPMediaItemPropertyPersistentID...

[moonbahrir]

I think I'm going to develop my own ANE which will do the query in ObjC and return to AS3 the array of IDs (of all tracks of an album/playlist). Therefore I don't need correpondences as the iTunes' trackID won't be needed anymore...

[moonbahrir]

Hi,

I've done some work now and I'm able to retrieve all of the current album's tracks (given album title and artist name), with the good IDs. However I'm having some troubles with the ANE itself, as it is my first, I must do something wrong because it crashes everytime I call my method... Once in a while it doesn't crash, that's how I can tell the fonctionnality works.

Could you please help me with this? I followed this tutorial: http://www.lorenzonuvoletta.com/how-to-create-your-own-ane-for-ios-using-adobe-air/

(we can continue this discussion elsewhere if you want as it is a différent subject...)

I'm closed to something really interesting :)

[richpixel]

Not sure how to do a private message, but if you paste your email address I can delete the comment.

On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 12:26 PM, moonbahrir [email protected] wrote:

Hi,

I've done some work now and I'm able to retrieve all of the current album's tracks (given album title and artist name), with the good IDs. However I'm having some troubles with the ANE itself, as it is my first, I must do something wrong because it crashes everytime I call my method... Once in a while it doesn't crash, that's how I can tell the fonctionnality works.

Could you please help me with this? I followed this tutorial: http://www.lorenzonuvoletta.com/how-to-create-your-own- ane-for-ios-using-adobe-air/

(we can continue this discussion elsewhere if you want as it is a différent subject...)

I'm closed to something really interesting :)

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[moonbahrir]

I used autoreleasepool and it seems to be ok :) The last problem I have to resolve (perhaps through my ANE..) is the fact that the music is not played my iPhone main music source (if I plug my headphone and clic on play, Music opens and plays instead of my app)