[Noisebridge-discuss] Jukebox + DAAP
Asheesh Laroia
noisebridge at asheesh.org
Mon Jan 5 03:55:56 UTC 2009
I just fixed the jukebox to have a working hard drive. Now it boots!
It runs a pulseaudio daemon, which is the standard in networked speakers
for the GNU world. It's choppy over wifi, sadly; it works fine over a
cable, though.
I would like to see a web interface that did this: You go to
http://jukebox.sf.noisebridge.net/ and you see a list of DAAP (the
protocol of Apple iTunes) shares from everyone's laptops that are on wifi,
with the space's own music repository listed as one of the DAAP shares.
While people are around, you can play their music.
Does anyone know of such a thing? SlimServer (now SqueezeCenter) seems to
only serve as a DAAP server, and I haven't tried Firefly Media Center yet
<http://www.fireflymediaserver.org/>.
(Other ideas: someone can spend some time making an Apple Airport Express
backend for pulseaudio (or look at existing code:
<http://rubyforge.org/projects/raop/> and
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/raop-play/>). Or add compression support
to pulseaudio at network time <http://www.pulseaudio.org/ticket/366> +
discussion at <http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/foms-lca-recap.html>.)
And thanks to all who have helped provide us with music listening joy over
the past few months!
-- Asheesh.
--
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
-- Wm. Shakespeare
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