#421: emulated AirPort Express as audio source
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Reporter: albert | Owner: lennart
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: low | Milestone:
Component: daemon | Severity: normal
Resolution: | Keywords:
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Comment (by coling):
Hi Albert,
As the person who has done most of the work on #69 I can say that the
opposite, while very attractive, is very much harder.
For one AFAIK the encryption key that would allow us to emulate an
airtunes device has not been cracked and thus it's pretty much impossible.
We are able to do #69 (and raop-play etc.) due to the fact that the
encryption key for an older version of iTunes on PPC was cracked and we
essentially emulate it. That's the only reason the airport devices will
speak to us.
Another important factor is that the Airtunes devices are capable of
AAC/ALAC decoding and other fanciness. I'd be a little reticent of adding
this support into pulse directly but there is not real reason not to.. it
just seems a little higher level than pulse's usual stuff. That said, if
the keys were known, I think it would be a fun project, even if it's not
part of pulse directly.
So as far as I know, this is pretty much impossible until the keys are
known.
(I'd be happy to be corrected here)
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