Steve Baumgarten wrote:
Just wondering. It would seem to me that if there was some sort of
loop-back audio device driver for Windows that this could be used to
support DRM-protected music playing to a Squeezbox. The idea would be
that you could control Windows Media Player to play the DRM-protected
music, capture the audio output from the virtual audio driver, and send
it back out to the Squeezbox.
High Criteria (the Total Recorder people) have an SDK version of their
product that I imagine would enable someone to code up something like
this. It would be a huge plus on Windows; basically, it would allow us
to get around all the BS involved with proprietary DRM-based music
clients and let us fairly easily redirect streams from those clients to
the SlimServer via the Total Recorder virtual sound card driver.
http://www.highcriteria.com/productfr_trDEV.htm
"Total Recorder Developer Edition brings all of the recording
features and controls of Total Recorder Professional Edition, to
programmers and their applications. Total Recorder DE includes OLE
Automation support that provides a programming interface to Total
Recorder functions. It features a dual interface and is a convenient
way for any programming or scripting language that supports OLE
Automation, to invoke Total Recorder functionality to record
streaming audio or sound input on any of your sound card's input
jacks."
It's funny, but getting around DRM *without* breaking it is legal, under
the US Digital Millenium Copyright Act. What you do with the content
afterwards would need to fall within the Fair Use doctrine, of course.
I am not a lawyer, but this looks like a good approach. Such a stupid,
stupid law, that DMCA.
-- Damon
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