iPod and iTunes Hacks by Hadley Stern

Author:Hadley Stern [Hadley Stern]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: COMPUTERS / Interactive & Multimedia
ISBN: 9780596553029
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Published: 2009-02-09T00:00:00+00:00

Observations and Issues

A couple of things are interesting to note when playing with the API.

If you do a GetDeviceUniqueID(), you get back a fairly large string of information. The first bit of this is presumably the manufacturer and model. The next bit seems to be random junk, though it obviously means something (it might be the region code). The last six characters are the FireWire Global Unique Identifier (GUID), which is specific to your iPod. On my iPod, this value is 5CB92D.

One strange thing I've noticed is that you can issue a LockiPod() command, but you don't seem to need to issue an UnlockiPod() command before you exit the program. It might be that because the same application ID is always used, you don't need to unlock it again. However, if you were to lock with one ID and then try to access the iPod with another, you might have problems.

Also note that one of the methods in IPODSERVICELib.iPodManager is RegisterApp(), which you can use to successfully register your own application. However, even though an application you register with this method appears in the Registry as a valid application, trying to log into the iPod using its appID returns a "Login Failed" error.

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