daap.js

This is an implementation of the Digital Audio Access Protocol on top of node.js - you can use it to share music to Apple's iTunes app. You can find out more about DAAP at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Audio_Access_Protocol

Yes, this works with iTunes 10!

Prerequisites

daap.js was developeed against node.js v0.2.0 from Macports, on Mac OSX 10.6.4 - but there's nothing tricky going on here so it should work much more broadly.

If the node_mdns (http://github.com/agnat/node_mdns) modeule is found daap.js will advertise itself over Bonjour/ zerconf - this will make your server pop up as a 'shared library' in iTunes.

Getting Started

This is more of a sketch than a consumer app so you'll definitely need to do some tinkering to get up and running. This may include:

• modifying the Makefile to point to your node.js executable and library locations
• changing the listen port in eg/server.js
• specifying the songs to share in eg/server.js (mp3s only)

The included Makefile has a 'run' target that will start the server. a look at eg/server.js to configure listen port etc.

Contact

If you have feedback I'd love to hear it! Find me at:

• hellomatty@gmail.com
• http://twitter.com/hellomatty

License

Copyright 2010 Matthew Wood

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.