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Created March 27, 2012 22:49
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Quick and dirty script to get track names, artist names, and album names from an iTunes XML dump and output a CSV
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itunes-xml-csv.rb
require 'csv'
track = /<key>Name<\/key><string>(.*)<\/string>[.\s]*<key>Artist<\/key><string>(.*)<\/string>[.\s]*<key>Album<\/key><string>(.*)<\/string>/
file = File.open("Library.xml", "r")
contents = file.read
out = CSV.open("Library.csv", "w")
contents.scan(track) do |match|
out << match
end
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