More fun with itunes music player :)
Sometimes, itunes will stutter during playback. Winamp doesn't seem to have this problem. Playlist creation and management can be easier in itunes, but itunes' playlist cannot (easily) used in winamp. After spending some time looking at the file format for m3u and pls files, here's a little snippet to export a playlist from itunes into something that works with winamp: http://wliao.freeshell.org/tcl/itunes_playlist_export/itunes_playlist_export.txt .
It uses tcom, so windows only. There should be an equivalent with javascript or apple events... Track listings doesn't seem to work well with stream urls, and I don't have an videos.
Sample output:
C:\>tclsh itunes_playlist_export.tcl list | export id path ? m3u | pls ? | tracks id C:\>tclsh itunes_playlist_export.tcl list 1 - a 1202 2 - {Party Shuffle} 21 3 - Purchased 0 4 - 1 25 5 - 2.1 0 6 - fiifer 113 7 - fiifer.3hours 46 8 - lunger 97 9 - lunger.3hours 34 10 - {seldom heard} 35 11 - Videos 0 12 - Zall_songs 1173 13 - Zpurchased 72 14 - {ZRecently Added} 25 15 - {ZRecently Played} 89 16 - Podcasts 25 17 - stream 10 C:\>tclsh itunes_playlist_export.tcl tracks 16 list tracks in Podcasts 1 - 3207 {On The Media - August 25, 2006} {C:\Documents and Settings\wl\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music\Podcasts\On The Media from NPR_WNYC\On The Media - August 25, 2006.mp3} ... C:\>tclsh itunes_playlist_export.tcl export 16 1.m3u C:\>tclsh itunes_playlist_export.tcl export 16 1.pls pls C:\>cat 1.pls [playlist] File1=C:\Documents and Settings\wl\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music\Podcasts\On The Media from NPR_WNYC\On The Media - August 25, 2006.mp3 Title1=On The Media - August 25, 2006 Length1=3207 File2=C:\Documents and Settings\wl\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music\Podcasts\IT Conversations\1034 Simon Witts - Platform for the.mp3 Title2=Simon Witts - Platform for the People-Ready Business Length2=2236 C:\>cat 1.m3u #EXTM3U#EXTINF:3207,On The Media - August 25, 2006 C:\Documents and Settings\wl\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music\Podcasts\On The Media from NPR_WNYC\On The Media - August 25, 2006.mp3 #EXTINF:2236,Simon Witts - Platform for the People-Ready Business C:\Documents and Settings\wl\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music\Podcasts\IT Conversations\1034 Simon Witts - Platform for the.mp3