Apple::Music::Library

The apple-music-library gem offeres a ruby interface to the information stored in an iTunes / Apple Muisic Library.xml file, as generated by the menu option File > Library > Export Library...

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'apple-music-library'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install apple-music-library

Usage

# Create library
library = Apple::Music::Library.new('path/to/Library.xml')

# Count albums
puts library.albums.count

# Show tracks in a specific playlist
playlist = library.playlist('XTC Favorites')
playlist.tracks.each do |track|
  puts track.name
end

# Count tracks by artist
artist = library.artist('XTC')
puts artist.tracks.count

# Display track counts per genre
library.genres.each do |genre|
  puts "#{genre.tracks.count} #{genre.name}"
end

All stored attributes are available via snake_cased methods on Track and Playlist. However, note that #artist, #album, and #genre are special cases, returning Ruby objects rather than their associated string values. Methods to return the string versions of these track attributes are provided as track.artist_name, track.album_name, and track.genre_name.

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/pugetive/apple-music-library.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.