It turns out that iTunes does export its subscription list, in a weird format I’ve never seen before. It is XML, so it’s process-able. But why not use the standard same one everyone else does? (Thanks to Denise Howell for providing the example.)
What you have pointed to is not a subscription list, it is an iTunes “playlist” file. It defines the order of tracks in the list, and points the the physical location of the file. There’s no information about the subscription. See Hacking the iTunes Music Library for some useful information about dealing with the formatted file.
Unfortunately the subscription information is kept in the *other* iTunes Music Library file, the binary database. I have yet to find a description or tool that can decipher that beast.
OK – I did a little bit more homework (of the searching kind) and located some choice information about the format of the binary file here iTunesDB – WikiPodLinux
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