[RELEASE] iTunes and iPhoto integration plugins for XBMC

The iTunes/iPhoto plugin is distributed as part of XBMC for Mac, since it is supported only on OS X currently. Once you install XBMC for Mac, you will find the plugins in ~/Library/Application Support/XBMC/plugins. They have not yet been committed into the xbmc-scripting or addons repository but will be soon.

The four folders listed in ~/Library/Application Support/XBMC/plugins are empty.

That's very odd. Anyhow, you can download the plugins from:

http://code.google.com/p/xbmc-addons/downloads/list

Drop it in ~/Library/Application Support/XBMC/plugins/ and unzip.

Thanks you d4rk

Checkout: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=36591

Contains HOW-TO install plugins in XBMC for Mac

Now that I got XBMC nicely running on my ATV, I am considering the next step also integrating itunes and iphoto (leaving me with XBMC as the ultimative media machine).

Anyone has managed to get itunes- and iphotos-integration on ATV. If yes, how?

Many thanks!!!

Still working on itunes and (more importanly) iphoto support for XBMC on ATV.

I have copied the plugins on the ATV and now I can see them on the ATV. The problem is that the itunes and iphoto libraries cannot be found now. Probably the reason is that they are on my mac mini and NOT on my Apple TV.

I am now trying to create a symlink back to my mac mini. Anyone more familiar with this and can point me in the right direction. The following doesnt work (but is probably just wrong code):

ln -s smb://username:password@192.168.1.100/users/username/music /users/frontrow/music

I doubt that will work, as the OS doesn't know about smb I don't think, and that URL format is an XBMC-ism

One thing that *might* work, at least for listing the files, is editting the script for the path to the itunes xml file. Open up the script .py files, and it should be reasonably easy to see where to edit it. A path such as the above one might work in this scenario, though it relies on a bunch of stuff, such as the virtual filesystem working and so on.

Even if this was to work, however, I doubt the files would actually stream, as the files themselves are not on the appletv, so there'd need to be some URL changing to convert to the appropriate smb paths. This would involve more python hackery.

Good luck!

Cheers,
Jonathan

These are really phantastic plugins. Really nice!!!

Two quick question/request:

(i) Would it be possible in the artist view not to show artists from compilations, but only show "compilations" as one field in the same way how this can be configured within itunes?

(ii) Any chance to get coverart support?


Many thanks!!!

I just installed and am running XBMC for the first time from my macbook pro (leopard) to a PS3. Both devices are running the latest updates on everything. This is my first time dealing with media servers (the search for media servers on the PS3 sparked my interest and here I am). Anyhow, it's installed and running and the PS3 sees XBMC. I used the itunes library plugin and pointed the server to the itunes library XML file (i hope thats right). However when viewing the server on the PS3 I have two options for music—'music files' and 'music library'. When I go to music library it says there are no tracks. When I browse the music files it shows my itunes folder which has the music albums folders as sub items. When I click an album I get an error: "Media Server Error A DLNA error protocol error (-1) has occured."

I searched the internet for this error code to no avail. Any suggestions? I just want to share my itunes library and iphotos. Maybe the problem is on my end...I am a media server noobie.

Thanks.