iTunes XML File

VapourTrail · 21 Nov 2007 at 21:32

I'm trying to incorporate a list of my music on my web site. At the moment it is a simple text file however, I want to improve things by using XML. I can generate an XML file of all my music from iTunes however, the file generated is around 6.5Mb and Dreamweaver 8 falls over trying to load it.

Is there anyway of manipulating the iTunes generated XML file so that I can be selective regarding which fields to include?

Sic · 21 Nov 2007 at 21:33

you can use the php/javascript dom. and try opening that file in a lighter text editor than Dreamweaver - if you're in windows, try notepad++ or scite or even bog standard notepad

VapourTrail · 21 Nov 2007 at 21:44

I can open it in Notepad however, is 6.5 Mb a bit big for an XML file? Bit of a noob at this.

Sic · 21 Nov 2007 at 21:55

yeah, 6.5MB is pretty big for any kind of text file, really. I guess you have a pretty large itunes library

there's a php module for reading ID3 tags - might be an option to consider