[mb-devel] TRM lookup

Ben bench at silentmedia.com
Thu Oct 19 02:58:27 UTC 2006


Really, you should not be making anything new with TRMs, as they will be 
going away "eventually." PUIDs are the way of the future.

On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Andrew Armenia wrote:

> I am developing a Perl script which uses the iTunes COM interface to
> automatically clean up the tags for everything in the iTunes library. I'm
> using TRM IDs to identify certain badly mis-tagged files. I have run up
> against a problem, in that certain TRMs do not return any results when I use
> the client library or the gettrm example program, but the same TRM will
> return several (seemingly correct) results when I use the manual search
> function on the website. Am I missing something obvious, or is this due to a
> bug in the service, or the fact that TRMs are periodically removed from the
> database?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> -Andrew
>



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