can vlc play from the itunes music library on ios

[ovendial]

evidently there is api to access it: http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/08/ios- ... pps-about/

if not, are there plans to add this?

[fkuehne]

Well, yeah, there is an API to do playback, but there is no API to access the files.

On the upside, this would allow playback of encrypted contents purchased on iTunes. On the downside, we can't use our own playback engine to play those files, apply our equalizer and time stretching filters. So, we decided against the support for now to not confuse users why they can apply those filters on some but not on all files.

Additionally, since VLC for iOS is mostly a video player for now (hey, there are not even playlists yet to play more than one track after another), there is still plenty of stuff to do on the audio side.

[ovendial]

A few articles I found suggest it's possible to get at the contents through export:

http://www.subfurther.com/blog/2010/07/ ... ssy-steps/
http://blog.tapsquare.com/post/80330165 ... ry-access/
https://bitbucket.org/artgillespie/tsli ... t/overview

There's a apple censored comment in the first one suggesting other capabilities as well:

Art Gillespie posts to the coreaudio-api list that he’s taken this idea further and hacked out a way to get passthrough to work, thereby skipping the AV Foundation re-encoding. Project is TSLibraryImport and details are on his blog. Also, in iOS 4.1, you can just [redacted by Apple ninja lawyers].

has the situation changed since then?

[fkuehne]

I'll check that. Thanks a lot for the links!