Amarok Blog

Monday, July 10. 2006

iTunes Music Sharing Client Works

The title pretty much says it. You can now stream from local subnet iTunes, Banshee, mt-daapd/Firefly hosts.

Assuming you have Zeroconf set up - I will be adding a "add host" button for users with KDE 3.3 and I suspect the great majority of users who don't have Zeroconf set up at all. At least under Linux, Zeroconf is an ironic name as I actually had to edit some /etc files to get it to work. However to be frank, I'm sure most of our users know what a hostname and an ip address is; shouldn't be too painful to suggest they add hosts manually until Zeroconf configuration difficulties get ironed out. Hopefully the distros work it out, as I bet some of them already are.

Currently its kind of hidden, you have to go to Amarok Configuration and add a "DAAP" media device. And then click "connect" in the media device tab. Assuming you have Zeroconf setup, you should see any local DAAP (aka Music Sharing) servers. I hope to integrate it into the collection browser in the near-future.

In a nifty example of code re-use, the Ruby proxy written for Last.fm doubles as the proxy for DAAP. Last.fm needed a proxy to take out the "sync" commands; DAAP needs a proxy due to silly post-4.5 iTunes requiring DRM-like hashes to be part of the HTTP GET command.

Posted by Ian Monroe in eean at 22:36 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

Destroying a legend

How sad is that?

I don't understand what was going on in Zidane's head at that moment.

What a career-ender

I just hope people will remember him for other things than this foul.

Must say, I quite enjoyed the world-cup over the last month. Sometimes I really wish it would take place more often than just every four years. Then again, maybe it's only so exciting, because it's a once-in-four-years happening you just don't want to miss.

Congratulations to Italy, something the tifosi can surely embrace during the disturbing time of mach-fixing allegations.

See you in another four years, I reckon.

Posted by in muesli at 01:26 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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