daap client support and live TV support

[tdondich]

It would be great to play from my network daap servers from boxee as a streaming audio client.

Also, any plans to implement a live TV client for those media centers that don't run on xbox?

By the way, coming from MythTV, Boxee's clean interface is simply stunning. A lot of things just work and it's very impressive.

First post!

Taylor

[Strawp]

I second the DAAP request. Seems silly having Boxee index all my music if the server it's on has already done it.

[bizthepirate]

I do believe the MythTV support is coming, becuase it's being implemented in XBMC .... I also agree with the DAAP support, but I wouldn't be willing to bet against it coming out in one of the upcoming releases...

[Gamester17]

First of all, as mt-daapd (Multi-Threaded DAAP Daemon) is open source Team Boxee developers could integrate this into Boxee to add iTunes support to Boxee like to, (I am not sure if it would be the best solution but it should work). mt-daapd (Multi-Threaded DAAP Daemon) is cross-platform so this should work for Boxee on all platforms.

Now this workarond works in XBMC so I guess it should work in Boxee as well (I have not tested).

1) Download the last nighty build of Firefly Media Server, a DAAP open source media server.

2) Install Firefly (double click on firefly.prefpane) and manually change the port to 3689, (do not enter any password), then launch Firefly Media Server

3) Open sources.xml in your_user/library/Application Support/Boxee/UserData and type in your music section:

<source>
<name>whatever you want</name>
<path>daap://your_IP:3689/</path>
</source>

If iTunes is installed on the same computer as Boxee that you can just simply replace "your_IP" with "localhost".

That is it, you should now have access now to iTunes library and your playlists, more information here:
http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=31683

PS! Boxee does not play files with DRM so any files purchased on iTunes Store will not play, ...DRM is bad, mmmmmkay

By the way, coming from MythTV, Boxee's clean interface is simply stunning.

Do a search in this forum for "MythTV"

[florian]

First of all, as mt-daapd (Multi-Threaded DAAP Daemon) is open source Team Boxee developers could integrate this into Boxee to add iTunes support to Boxee like to, (I am not sure if it would be the best solution but it should work). mt-daapd (Multi-Threaded DAAP Daemon) is cross-platform so this should work for Boxee on all platforms.

Now this workarond works in XBMC so I guess it should work in Boxee as well (I have not tested).

1) Download the last nighty build of Firefly Media Server, a DAAP open source media server.

2) Install Firefly (double click on firefly.prefpane) and manually change the port to 3689, (do not enter any password), then launch Firefly Media Server

3) Open sources.xml in your_user/library/Application Support/Boxee/UserData and type in your music section:

<source>
<name>whatever you want</name>
<path>daap://your_IP:3689/</path>
</source>

If iTunes is installed on the same computer as Boxee that you can just simply replace "your_IP" with "localhost".

That is it, you should now have access now to iTunes library and your playlists, more information here:
http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=31683

PS! Boxee does not play files with DRM so any files purchased on iTunes Store will not play, ...DRM is bad, mmmmmkay


Do a search in this forum for "MythTV"

Cool, thanks for that. Workarounds are nice, but not very handy. It would be nicer if Boxee could have it's own DAAP client.

[Strawp]

Cool, thanks for that. Workarounds are nice, but not very handy. It would be nicer if Boxee could have it's own DAAP client.

Do you mean DAAP host? If that workaround above works (not tried it yet) then it means Boxee already supports DAAP. This is good enough for me (although I didn't have much luck adding a DAAP source in XBMC via the interface so I'm not holding my breath).

The DAAP client connects to a DAAP host and streams music from it. The host indexes local music and streams that to clients?

Which do you mean? Host or client?

[florian]

I mean Client. I want to use it as a client of iTunes.

[Gamester17]

XBMC/Boxee already have a DAAP client but that client is only compatible with iTunes 6.x

...if Boxee had a built-in DAAP server/host (like mt-daapd) then it would work out-of-the-box, doing it that way would be much easier then to add iTunes 7.x support (and later iTunes 8.x support, etc.) to Boxee's DAAP client.

The reason adding native iTunes 7.x support (and later iTunes 8.x support, etc.) client support to Boxee is so hard is that it is not an open standard protocol, it is a closed proprietary that only Apple uses, ...and the fact is that closed proprietary technology is bad for open source applications like Boxee and XBMC.

So simplest solution would be if Boxee had both a DAAP client and a DAAP server/host built-in.

[Gamester17]

FYI; here is a python plugin so you should be able to copy it and use in Boxee:
http://xbmc.org/d4rk/2008/09/18/itun...ation-in-xbmc/
http://code.google.com/p/xbmc-addons/
http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=37313
http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=37574

You will have to add it as a source manually to sources.xml

[brentopolis]

i was able to add an mt-daapd server as a source by manually adding it as daap://<ip>. however, boxee didn't appear to want to index that source. maybe i just didn't wait long enough, but i got impatient and switched to a source that pointed directly at the files instead.