{"id":328,"date":"2006-08-22T20:45:35","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T20:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.robertprice.co.uk\/robblog\/2006\/08\/itunes_now_playing_in_vb_2005-shtml\/"},"modified":"2006-08-22T20:45:35","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T20:45:35","slug":"itunes_now_playing_in_vb_2005-shtml","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertprice.co.uk\/robblog\/itunes_now_playing_in_vb_2005-shtml\/","title":{"rendered":"iTunes Now Playing in VB 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nAs I’ve been using VB 2005 a lot more a work the past few weeks, I thought I’d rewrite my iTunes Now Playing console app in VB.\n<\/p>\n

\nIt does the same as the previous C# example, and again I’ve chosen to use the free version of the language and Microsoft’s Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe first thing to do, is to make sure you have downloaded the iTunes SDK<\/acronym><\/a> from Apple.\n<\/p>\n

\nIn Visual Basic, create a new Console Application. We need to add a reference to the iTunes COM library, so we do this by right clicking over our application in the Solution Explorer, and selecting “Add Reference…”. Select the COM tab, and scroll down to find the iTunes library. Mine was called “iTunes 1.7 Type Library”.\n<\/p>\n

\n\"adding\n<\/p>\n

\nNow for some code.\n<\/p>\n

\nFirstly, like all good programmers we turn on VB’s strict mode to make sure we’re not using too many bad programming practices.\n<\/p>\n

Option Strict On
\n<\/code><\/div>\n

\nNext we need to import the libraries we want to use. In this case, System<\/code>> and iTunesLib<\/code>.\n<\/p>\n

Imports System
\nImports iTunesLib
\n<\/code><\/div>\n

\nAs we’ve created a Console App in VB, we can just drop the following code into the Main<\/code> sub.\n<\/p>\n

\nFirstly we need to create an iTunesApp object so we can get talk to iTunes. After that we need to get the current track.\n<\/p>\n

Dim app As New iTunesApp()
\nDim track As IITTrack = app.CurrentTrack
\n<\/code><\/div>\n

\nWe should now have the details of the current track in the track<\/code> object so we just need to print these to the console.\n<\/p>\n

Console.WriteLine(\"Current Track: {0}\", track.Name)
\nConsole.WriteLine(\"Current Artist: {0}\", track.Artist)
\n<\/code><\/div>\n

\nFinally, just so we can see the result we need to wait for the user to press return before we exit.\n<\/p>\n

Console.ReadLine()
\n<\/code><\/div>\n

\nFire up iTunes if it’s not already on and start a track playing. Now start your VB program, and it should tell you the current track title and artist as shown below.\n<\/p>\n

\n\"iTunes\n<\/p>\n

\nIt’s as simple as that. Obviously I’m not checking for exceptions and errors as this is just an basic example.\n<\/p>\n

\nYour final code should look something like this.\n<\/p>\n

Option Strict On
\nImports System
\nImports iTunesLib
\nModule Module1
\nSub Main()
\nDim app As New iTunesApp()
\nDim track As IITTrack = app.CurrentTrack
\nConsole.WriteLine(\"Current Track: {0}\", track.Name)
\nConsole.WriteLine(\"Current Artist: {0}\", track.Artist)
\nConsole.ReadLine()
\nEnd Sub
\nEnd Module
\n<\/code><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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