raop play addon for firefly

[ak.]

Hi,

I would find it very cool if it would be able to extend Firefly to be able to to stream to Apple Airport stations. A section in the userinterface where you can select the Airport discovered using mDNSClient and then stream it using raop_play with an option to pause, rewind in playlists….

http://raop-play.sourceforge.net/

Regards,

ak.

[sonichouse]

For this to work, you would have to be able to associate a client with the airport.

My firefly serves 3 or 4 clients, but I like the idea of saying that music streamed to device A also streams to the airport.

I would even consider buying an airport if this feature was added 😀

[rpedde]

@ak. wrote:

Hi,

I would find it very cool if it would be able to extend Firefly to be able to to stream to Apple Airport stations. A section in the userinterface where you can select the Airport discovered using mDNSClient and then stream it using raop_play with an option to pause, rewind in playlists….

http://raop-play.sourceforge.net/

Regards,

ak.

A daap client with a raop_play backend? But then you’ll want full playlist management on the server side, including queueing and client management.

It sounds like what you *really* want is slimserver. That’s a server-based playlist manager with dumb clients, rather then the obverse, which is what firefly/iTunes is. Firefly isn’t really suited to that sort of thing, as it doesn’t suit it’s model well.

To do it right, you’d have a daap client with a web interface from which to manage play orders and stuff. But that would be a lot of work, and would essentially just be re-writing slimserver to use daap as a file system rather than the local file system. Which doesn’t make sense if you can just run slimserver.

Not sure if that makes sense, but were I to spend an afternoon hacking to achieve this, I’d certainly start with slimserver as a basis.

[fizze]

Hm, what about the very nice FirePlay Flash client?
That pretty much has all the features for playlist management, etc.

You’d just need to send it’s stream to raop-play too/instead.

[rpedde]

@fizze wrote:

Hm, what about the very nice FirePlay Flash client?
That pretty much has all the features for playlist management, etc.

You’d just need to send it’s stream to raop-play too/instead.

That’s true… but you’d need to come up with an alac-encoder and encryption routines in ecmascript. That might be the challenge. 🙂

— Ron

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