CAcatch23·Jan 18, 2012
It was on HN last year:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2431318
This is the related code:
https://github.com/albertz/shairport/
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Airtunes emulator. official repo moved! now at <https://github.com/abrasive/shairport>
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| Apr 2011 | 2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| May 2011 | 2011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2011 | 2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2011 | 2011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2011 | 2011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2011 | 2011-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2011 | 2011-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2011 | 2011-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2011 | 2011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2012 | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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3 sourcesI got the same result at first. But after trying to play from my iPod touch, it worked.
I guess running the server and iTunes client on the same machine caused the problem.
My config: MBP on 10.6.7
And thank you for your dns-sd patch on https://github.com/albertz/shairport/
In Apple AirTunes private key extractedHas someone tried it and was able to play something?
I tried it and iTunes lists it as a device but I cannot activate it in iTunes (if I select it, it immediately unselects itself). From the console output, I see that iTunes even does not try to connect to it (to TCP Port 5000).
I am currently on a Mac so I needed to do some porting (https://github.com/albertz/shairport/) but I think this shouldn't have an impact on the behavior I am getting.
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