Apple.com has published a new page with information on iTunes LP and iTunes Extras for Developers:
Here’s everything you need to know to create a rich, interactive experience around your music and movies. All right in iTunes.
It includes the latest version of Apple's TuneKit (think WebKit HTML+CSS+Javascript with iTunes hooks), as well as templates, best practices, a development guide, and info on asset delivery and testing. It's not all automagical yet, however:
Automatic, electronic submission of your iTunes LP or Extra is scheduled for the first quarter of 2010. Until then, the submission process is manual and limited. Please contact your label or studio rep for details and consideration. An existing iTunes contract is required. Your iTunes LP or iTunes Extras will be reviewed by the iTunes team for appropriateness of content and for technical quality.
Still, it's nice to see the technology and supporting material made available, and the brouhaha from last month made farcical.
Now, all we need is for Apple to show some iTunes LP and iTunes Extras love to the iPhone. Where's that iPhone 3.2 already?!
Anyone planning to get TuneKit'ty with it? Let us know how it works for your content!
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Reader comments
Apple Publishes iTunes LP and iTunes Extras for Developers
No I do not want to get tunekittty.
Sounds interesting but no thanks.
Yep, really not interesting. How about something in 3.2 that's really useful like being able to create playlists on my iPhone or organize my pictures into folders or even save attachments from email to folders on the iPhone file system so I could then open them with another app of my choice.
Sigh. I'm sure we'll get ialbums or some other useless crap. Oh well, one can hope.
@Shollomon I REALLY wish I could make a playlist on my iPhone! I have so many CDs and don't like having to sit at my iMac to create playlists. That would be an excellent Christmas present Apple ;)
Our testing worked great in Snow Leopard/Safari. However, it did not work in iTunes. Looks like iTunes still needs to add http live support that was released as part of Snow Leopard. The same is true for Apple TV.
Similarly, only the opposite, the iPhone supports http live but does not support the iTunes LP/Extras format. I think this is required for the format to take off.