Thursday, November 09, 2006

Browsing shared content using DAAP/DPAP

Some time ago i started a new project called libdmapsharing. Its main purpose was to enable canola to browse shared contents (iTunes, iPhoto, rhythmbox, banshee, etc) using DAAP/DPAP.

But what is DAAP/DPAP?
DAAP (Digital Audio Access Protocol) is a protocol used by Apple's iTunes and other digital audio player to share music across a network or the Internet. As DAAP, DPAP (Digital Photo Access Protocol) is a protocol used to share content across a network, but photos instead of musics. The protocol is used by Apple's iPhoto and other photo applications.

Currently libdmapsharing supports only browsing, but in the future i intend to add sharing support also, so you will be able to easily share your musics/photos. The documentation is missing, but i will start writing it soon. As you can see, there is some things to do, so anyone interested in helping (even testing) it would be great.

Hope you enjoy

2 comments:

JulienV said...

Hi,

I would be interested in helping, although I am not much a developer. Maybe testing would be possible.

I am really fond of DPAP/DAAP which seems to be the solution to most of my issues at the moment, and their support on Linux is not what I would call "just usable".

Please contact me through my website if you think I can do something.

Cheers,
Julien

Ephilei said...

I can't offer any help, but I'd love to see this succeed and hope you the best!