Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] DACP (iTunes remote) support added

[Peter <rhythmbox-devel maubp freeserve co uk>]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Jonathan Matthew <jonathan d14n org> wrote:
>
> I've just committed Alexandre Rosenfeld's work on adding DACP support,
> after I finally got around to borrowing an iPhone from a friend to
> test it out a bit. Apparently it won't work with iTunes remote 2.0,
> but that's a fight for another day.
>
> If you'd like to test this out, you'll need a recent version of
> libdmapsharing (I'd suggest building it from git master, as there are
> likely to be bug fixes for this) and libsoup 2.32.x in addition to the
> usual dependencies. If you were using a previous version of the code,
> I should note that I changed the gconf key used to store the list of
> paired devices, so you'll need to either re-pair, or update gconf
> manually (/apps/rhythmbox/sharing/known-remotes ->
> /apps/rhythmbox/plugins/daap/known-remotes).
>
> Thanks to Alexandre for working on this, and to Mike Petullo for
> mentoring him and helping out with the code, and of course to the
> Google Summer of Code people.

Excellent news - I will be testing this once I've got RB built from source.

Also, if anyone has an Android phone, you could try this app which
is a DACP client: http://dacp.jsharkey.org/

Peter