On Friday 13 May 2005 10:06 pm, Matthew Phillips wrote:I think the best way for this to happen would be for the Myth box to act as an AirTunes server, which means it would show up as a pair of remote speakers to iTunes and anything else that groks that protocol. This just requires the use of Bonjour (nee Rendezvous) to advertise remote speakers (Apple has released the mDNS Bonjour utilities as OS), and the crack to AirTunes' encryption (http://www.cocoadev.com/ index.pl?AirTunes) to be combined. Which, AFAICT hasn't actually been done yet.
Non-trivial.
Airport advertises itself as a raop server via
zeroconfig/rendezvous/bounjour/mdns-nom-du-jour. Raop (Remote Audio Output
Protocol) is rtsp/rtp, but with encryption added.
The encryption protocol is reasonably well understood.
Public keys (what you need to encrypt content and send it to an Airport) are
known.
Private keys (what you need to "fake" an airport, receive content from iTunes,
and then play it) are completely unkown. The keys are there, somewhere in the
firmware of AirportExpress, but nobody's dug them out yet.
Bummer. I guess *that's* why it hasn't been done yet. And, if the secret is buried in firmware, I suppose it won't be coming any time soon either.
Why do these guys have to make everything so hard? Do they really think there aren't faster and better ways to copy music than to stream it - in real time - via AirTunes to a copier? This is legitimate music I bought, and I can't stream it to my stereo. Sheesh.
Thanks for the info,
Matthew.
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