[mythtv-users] Playing iTunes/AAC files in MythMusic

Brad mythtv at braddolman.com
Wed Sep 22 14:10:50 EDT 2004


Looks like "DVD Jon" may have come to our rescue once again:

http://nanocrew.net/blog/apple/revairtunes.html

Hopefully some enterprising individual can get MythMusic to play to 
airtunes devices! Very cool!!

>
>  thor wrote:
>
>  >On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 23:16, Dave Caplinger wrote:
>  >
>  >
>  >>Apple's recent announcement about "AirTunes" made me
>  >>wonder if there's some way to trick iTunes 4.6 into thinking MythTV is
>  >>an Airport Express-type remote stereo hookup
>  >>
>  >>
>  >
>  > Possibly.
>  >
>  > The iTunes http headers in DAAP (the protocol iTunes uses to share
>  >content) has always had icecast information in it. I suspect that's what
>  >they're using.
>  >
>  > I'll get to it at somepoint.
>  >
>  >
>For your reference. Some details on the inner workings of the AirPort
>  Express here. Looks like they are decompressing at the client and
>  streaming over Apple's Lossless codec:
>
>http://homepage.mac.com/craigamiller/iblog/C672660861/E1786577583/
>
>Kevin
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