[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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