# Launching Itunes or playing files from XML

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/launching-itunes-or-playing-files-from-xml/217164>\
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**Created:** [February 23, 2007, 5:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/launching-itunes-or-playing-files-from-xml/217164 "2007-02-23T17:31:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Multi\_Task](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Multi\_Task](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Multi_Task)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 5:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/launching-itunes-or-playing-files-from-xml/217164/1 "2007-02-23T17:31:15Z")

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I am interested if anyone knows of how to launch itunes to play a podcast from a swf file? The podcasts has an XML that itunes reads but what about launching the physical player and does anyone know of a way to do this?

I want to have a data list which i have already loading the XML from a podcast but on click it would launch that podcast into the users itunes player. any ideas? Thanks in advance and happy friday yall.  
MT