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Re: iTunes and persistent ID

On Aug 25, 2006, at 10:14 AM, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
On 8/25/06 8:00 AM, "Dave Dribin" <email@hidden> wrote:
Just out of interest - what's the worry? iTunes is free, and, according to
the iTunes website, iTunes 6 works on every Mac OS 10.2.8 and later. Are you
really concerned about having your app work on OS 10.1? For everyone else
(i.e. everyone) they just have to get iTunes 6 free at
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ . Or, better yet, start up Software
Update in System prefs, which will do it for them.

I have no hard numbers to back this up, but I figure some people, even running on 10.2, 10.3, and 10.4, are running an older version of iTunes for whatever reason. It's not so much that they *can't* update, it's that they don't want to. Maybe there are so few people out there like this that I shouldn't worry. Or maybe telling them to upgrade is appropriate. But I'd rather not alienate some potential customers if I don't absolutely have to.

If I can easily support older iTunes version using "database ID" instead of "persistent ID", I'll do that. But from what I can tell, "database ID" has some limitations, such as a track not getting the same "database ID" for it's entire lifetime. Also, playlists have no unique ID, other than "persistent ID".

-Dave

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