Cycling 74 » Topic: Mac iTunes file path regex http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/mac-itunes-file-path-regex/feed Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:58:15 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=2.2.4 http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/mac-itunes-file-path-regex/#post-53979 <![CDATA[Mac iTunes file path regex]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/mac-itunes-file-path-regex/#post-53979 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:58:39 +0000 Peter I am visualizing iTunes music library with Processing.
I send the filepath of the selected song to Max Msp over maxlink.
I then prepend the read command, and send the message to the jit.qt.movie object, that can read mp3s.

The problem is that the filepaths, that come from the iTuneslibrary.xml look like this “file://localhost/Users/peko6107/Music/iTunes/iTunes%20Media/Music/E-Z%20Rollers/Weekend%20World/12%20Short%20Change.mp3″

And Max Msp doesn’t know how to read this. I’m guessing it’s some sort of standard format iTunes uses and should be decodable with regexp object. I know %20 means space, but some songs have a bunch of other strange symbols in such as %5B, which is [ and so on…

Does anyone have the über regexp object expression that decodes iTunes format into mac/max msp format?

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/mac-itunes-file-path-regex/#post-194258 <![CDATA[Re: Mac iTunes file path regex]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/mac-itunes-file-path-regex/#post-194258 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:35:25 +0000 Peter Nyboer you are faced with the issue of URL encoding:
http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm
In your max5 folder, there is /examples/javascript/lists+strings/urlescape-example.maxpat
which should solve your problem, more or less.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/mac-itunes-file-path-regex/#post-194259 <![CDATA[Re: Mac iTunes file path regex]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/mac-itunes-file-path-regex/#post-194259 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:27:55 +0000 Peter pnyboer, Thank you soo much, that is exactly what I needed.
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