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http://www.deleet.de/projekte/daap/daapd/ any NAS box that is open enough to let you run linux on it. I'm not sure DAAPD works well anymore, or for videos, i have no idea if it does videos or anything, i hvan't needed to talk to an apple only client in years now.

No one said they have a get out of jail card.. Err, yah, whatever..

The DRM is already cracked and can be bypassed.

And I privately enjoy my purchases and stream them over daap just fine.

My iPod works fine and as long as I AGREE to their TOS, then that's a binding contract and they're not stopping me from doing anything. I have choice, I chose the best player and service - simple as that.

Sorry, yr post has been cracked..

My guess is they use something like daapd. I know that is what I use at home to stream to all the macs from a FreeBSD server. Check out the project here

I personally am running daapd on a linux box to stream music to a couple of other machines in my apartment.

I run the GREAT daapd project on my Gentoo system to stream out my music to all the machines at my home network and to work. I was recently thinking "how much power would it take to embed that project and take on the squeeze box?".

But, knowing how small the mach kernel is, could this all be run via real software? Airport is mainly run my hardware controlled by a tinny bit of firmware, but given this thing has more features than your average home router, do you think Apple has stripped down Darwin to create it?

Think about, the development for getting CUPS, mDNS, DHCPD, their DAAP, their firewall, the airport driver might out weigh the cost of a hardware with enough power to run an embedded system.

....the first step in allowing us linux and BSD users to listen to iTunes shared music. While we can share music (and its well documented) we cannot, to the best of my knowledge, listen to others music without using iTunes. Perhaps if this is doable, somebody can make a hack to allow us to listen to shared music?

It's already been done. Personally, I don't know how well it works, but it sounds promising. IIRC, the Rhythmbox (iTunes clone for GNOME) guys are planning on including it when it's "ready".

(The hack in this article is unrelated to iTunes' sharing.)

If you want to stream MP3's portably, stick with QTSS or Slimserver. But if you want to duplicate iTunes functionality, only without the GUI--but including AAC streaming and browsing from within iTunes clients--try daapd . Of course, it's available in Fink, so it's not hard to get started.

Howl and daapd for those that would like to serve from a Linux/BSD box.

Some reflection would indicate that 'somestuff' in the URL
http://your.mac.com:3689/somestuff/file.mp3
is not meant to be taken literally! I did not spell it out precisely because I don't condone the stealing of music.

However, if you want to learn more, go to these two places:
pudge's journal
DAAP reverse-engineering project
A DAAP Wiki (collaborative webpage)

Briefly:
To just piggyback on iTunes:
Use tcpdump to watch for URLs of the form http://the.ip.address:3689/databases/32/233.mp3?se ssion_id=17934
Then use that URL with the web browser or download client of your choice to steal music.

To write your own client:
First you login with http://the.ip.address:3689/login
You parse the result for the session ID number
Then you do some logging in stuff
Then you ask for the contents of the iTunes database with http://the.ip.addrses:3689/databases/##/items
The n you download (or stream) files to your heart's content.