TODO: Xbox 360 Streaming From Amarok

Monday, July 24. 2006

TODO: Xbox 360 Streaming From Amarok

I haven’t written this yet. But I’ve been googling for information, and I’m stuck. So here’s an appeal to the wider community.

Xbox 360 can accept streams from Windows Media Center Edition. But I don’t have that, does anyone? So I want to stream from Amarok. Can anyone recommend something that can do this already, or a whitepaper about it? Am I going to have to reverse engineer the MS protocol? Because that may put me off unless someone can give me some pointers.

If I made it I’d make it an independent app to Amarok and then interface it. Is there some general purpose streaming solution out there that I may be able to write a plugin or something for? As reinventing the wheel is not for me.

With this feature I could play geometry wars while listening to some of my collection, which would be nice as the GW theme gets a little repetitive after about 30 seconds.

Please don’t slate me for my 360 purchase! It rocks too much for me to not have one.

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Posted by Max Howell in mxcl at 10:24 | Comments (2)

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Well, icecast can stream every sound that gets played on the system (dynamically encoding it). I once wrote a script for amarok that wrote the metadata on track change to a separate file, and then sent SIGUSR1 to the ices process (after recieving the signal ices re-reads the metadata from the file). It was crude, but it worked. Unfortunately, I lost the script