Curtis made an appearance on our favorite music blog yesterday!
A recurring feature request seems to be adding the ability to load audio into Curtis. Any suggestions regarding how this should work? Apple keeps us locked out of your music library, so the most obvious (and fun?) option is out. Creating a desktop synchronization client is out of the question for such a cheap app. We’re eager to hear your thoughts on this as well as any other feature requests!
Perhaps you could grab files from a URL supplied by the user. Or show a mini built-in web browser (as is used in twitteriffic) so they could navigate to the file to download.
In iPhone OS 3.0 you have access to the iTunes library using the Media Player framework. It allows you to play songs that are synced from a user’s desktop iTunes library.
the Media Player Framework allows you to play songs from the library, but as far as i am aware, you cannot actually get at the raw data of the songs. have you seen documentation to the contrary?