Publishing iTunes library on the web?

[Lurk]

Hey, I think it would be interesting to publish my iTunes music library on the web, just to show what kind of music I have and listen to.

When I say publish it on the web, I don't mean put them up for people to listen/download, but just to list it so people can maybe search and see the music I have.

 

[homerjward]

you can just copy and paste all the text into an excel spreadsheet and put that ont he web. that's what i do w/ my friends to compare collecitons/see if either person wants what the other has

 

[EricNau]

I think there is a way to do this with iWeb, and even have each song link to the iTMS.

 

[Lixivial]

On Windows I used to use this. I never have tried the OS X version, as I've not had the need for a good long while. But it worked well and had some beautiful themes with it.

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/14800

Here is a very old example of its output.

 

[menziep]

I think there is a way to do this with iWeb, and even have each song link to the iTMS.

Yeah Steve Jobs Demo that feature in his Macworld 06 Keynote

 

[NicP]

Have a look at last.fm, its not exactly what you descibe, but youll probably be interested in it.

Here is my statistics page to get you started: http://www.last.fm/user/NicP

 

[decksnap]

I use an app called iTunes XHTML playlist. Works great- has different 'skins' for the page it generates. (can make it look like itunes)

 

[reh]

I made a spreadsheet for putting my music library online a while back (didn't like the other options available).

example

the spreadsheet w/ directions

 

[gallagb]

Have a look at last.fm, its not exactly what you descibe, but youll probably be interested in it.

Here is my statistics page to get you started: http://www.last.fm/user/NicP

i do this as well
i think it is great & easy
there is also a macrumors 'group' that u can join

my link: http://www.last.fm/user/gallagb/
the MR group:
http://www.last.fm/group/Macrumors

 

[Lurk]

Wow, a wonderful app. It does lag a bit to edit it, but I don't mind it. How's it done through iWeb? What does it look like through iWeb?

 

[realityisterror]

I'll third iTunes XHTML Playlist.
It's simple, does what you want, is moderately customizable, easy, free...

Just download it.

 

[Lurk]

I'll third iTunes XHTML Playlist.
It's simple, does what you want, is moderately customizable, easy, free...

Just download it.

No installation -- just run the exe, is another plus.

 

[Greenjeens]

I made a spreadsheet for putting my music library online a while back (didn't like the other options available).

example

the spreadsheet w/ directions

Thank you very much!

Instead of Mac Office your spreadsheet program was opened using NEO-OFFICE.

With little knowledge of spreadsheets, if I can do this anyone can! Any tips would be appreciated, but it was mostly plug and play.

Song, Artist, Album are the itunes column defaults so it required changing the order of column header titles, after opening the xhtml speadsheet file (within Neoffice).

Guessing the default order of song artist album could be changed easily with a little change in the original spread sheet, but not required ?

After selecting the itunes View option, to show only artist and album i just copy pasted a playlist into the provided spreadsheet for testing. Everything lined up automaticaly! Song title is always displayed. Columns needed to be expanded a bit.

Simply Copy/Pasting the song info right off iTunes onto the provided spread sheet, seemed to produce a useful itunes document containing a test playlist. Took several minutes to display the 30 song test list. So I'm not sure how long my 5000+ song iTunes library would take to display.

This is much nicer result than copy pasting an itunes library without the aligned columns a spreadsheet provides. Makes a clean itunes library.xls document in the desktop folder.

Seems to work easily with just a few simple mods for someone with no experience in spread sheets and a using the free Neoffice application and provided spreadsheet!
Nice way to share and display my itunes library contents in an xls document.


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