I would like to know how far along DAAP support has come in mythmusic. All of my music is on a linux box and is pushed to any iTunes clients on my network (namely my powerbook) via mt-daapd, which makes my linux box appear to be another instance of iTunes sharing on the network.
<br>The thing is, I think most of the work on DAAP in mythmusic is geared toward making it run as a DAAP server, not a client. And frankly, that amounts to reinventing the wheel since mt-daapd is frankly a near perfect DAAP daemon. It would make more sense to me to just integrate mt-daapd into MythTV for DAAP server support, and focus on making mythmusic a decent DAAP client.
<br>Just my two cents.<br><br>cheers<br>Mike<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/21/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Scott</b> <<a href="mailto:catfather@donpoo.net">catfather@donpoo.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On May 21, 2006, at 12:37 AM, Dave Jones wrote:<br>> I'm definitely interested in this, too... dealing with a SQL<br>> backend can be kinda clunky. I would much like to be able to create<br>> a playlist at my desktop (in the office) and listen in the living
<br>> room.<br><br>We have a whole house iTunes solution, but it doesn't involve MythTV.<br>That's not to say that MythTV couldn't be worked to do something<br>similar. For iTunes integration and playback the two key abilities I
<br>make use of are a) understanding the iTunes Library DB format and b)<br>the ability to stream music. Both of these capabilities are well<br>established in various Open Source projects and could be incorporated<br>into MythMusic backend at some point. On the frontend it would be
<br>nice if MythMusic could tune into an mp3 stream. (I don't use<br>MythMusic can it do these things already?)<br><br>Here's my music setup.<br><br>Our entire iTunes library (songs + database) is stored on a Linux<br>server. The three Macs in the house access the library by first
<br>mounting the SMB share then starting iTunes. Any Mac can setup play<br>lists, add new songs, etc and the results are always in sync with the<br>other Macs because everything is done on the Linux share.<br><br>On the same Linux server I have slimserver running
<br>(<a href="http://www.slimdevices.com">www.slimdevices.com</a>). Slimserver is a nice way to browse, search,<br>and stream a collection of music (mp3, ogg, acc, etc) Slimserver<br>understands the iTunes Music Library database and uses it when
<br>browsing or searching songs via the web so all artist, title, cover<br>art, etc entered in iTunes is available.. I have a 2nd generation<br>squeezebox (also from slimdevices) hooked to my multi-room a/v<br>receiver to distribute music to various rooms in the house. Any
<br>software that can receive a mp3 stream can be used to tune into the<br>slimserver mp3 stream and play back music. (Obviously you don't need<br>to purchase additional hardware unless you think it fits your needs.)<br><br>
Usability goes something like this. To play a song use any computer<br>to go to the slimserver web page and select the songs / albums /<br>artists / playlists to hear and put them in the queue. To add songs<br>or otherwise manage the music collection mount the SMB share and fire
<br>up iTunes. That's pretty much it and it really is as simple as it<br>sounds. :)<br><br>There are two issues with my setup that we learn to live with. The<br>first is that the iTunes Music Library doesn't understand concurrent
<br>access so it's important to make sure only one copy of iTuunes is<br>running at a time. The second issue is that slimserver cannot deal<br>with the fairplay DRM from the ITMS purchases. This can be worked<br>around if slimserver was installed on a Mac instead of a Linux box or
<br>by re-encoding purchased songs to some other format as we do.<br><br>--<br>Scott <<a href="mailto:catfather@donpoo.net">catfather@donpoo.net</a>><br>AIM: BlueCame1<br><br>_______________________________________________
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