Wireless music at home

Sun, 06 Aug 2006 14:23 GMT

Yesterday I assembled my new IKEA desk. It's nice to have my computer again on a desk :). In Madrid I used to connect my computer audio output to my Hi-Fi system to be able to listen to my mp3/ogg/flac music on the living room with a long RCA audio wire. However that is not anymore possible in my new apartment. I though about some other solution to play my music. First I considered buying an Apple Airport Express: 130$. Then I realized that I already have a gadget with wireless and audio output: my Nokia 770 so let's code it!.

First I need a music server: after some web crawling tangerine was the perfect piece of software, quick, easy and just works.
Then I needed some DAAP client code for the 770: python-daap looked great, so I could write a quick 770 python player.
I did some local testing on my computer and I had to hack python-daap to connect/disconnect after each request, because downloading more than one song was failing: ugly hack for python daap
Finally a quick and dirty test player in python for the 770, based on the Muine idea: Add -- Play/Enqueue

So after ~200 lines of python I got it:

My Hi-Fi system with the 770 connected wih a jack2RCA wire

Main play window

Add Song window

Here are the files:

Currently DAAP server address is harcoded and stop button is not working, so there is lot of stuff to do:

add some Avahi python code to search for music servers
Make stop works
download next song 10 secs before playing it to avoid delays
Support for remote playlists (in client and tangerine)
Create real .deb packages with .desktop files so you don't need to run it in a console with
```
run-standalone.sh python2.4 ./n770.py
```
...

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Wireless music at home