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The XML iTunes produces for Android?

jzaruba

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Nov 6, 2010
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Hello

I read somewhere that the native player can "eat" what iTunes produces, which allegedly is some form of XML.

1) Could someone, please, confirm this?
2) Could you also send me an example of such XML-file that Android understands+plays?

Regards
JZ
 
What do you mean by the native player eating something that iTunes produces? I don't follow. What are you wanting to accomplish at the end of the day?

Allegedly it is possible to transfer playlists from iTunes to Android, so that the native player can actually play them... And allegedly those are just XML-files. (My understanding is that the Android music player creates its native playlists from those.)

I want to transform m3u-playlists (on my PC) into something that the native music player can play... w/o installing iTunes or another app on my PC. (I prefer writing tiny m3u-2-XML translator on my own, one day Google fixes this hopefully.)
Syncing m3u playlist using WMP does not work for me; playlists gets transferred, they look OK, but the player can not get past 2nd track.
 
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I was not asking "how to?", rather I was asking for confirmation of one particular procedure, the one including xml. If creating a playlist in xml was all it takes I would be happy. (I can create it without installing anything, it can be created by simple script.) Unfortunately it is not the case.
I have even tried the doubleTwist app and Android manager, no luck.
I might either wait for someone to fix the *.pla bug or write my own Android app that would translate *.m3u into native playlists in the device db.
Anyways, thanks for your time.
Cheers
JZ
 
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