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https://github.com/abrasive/shairport

Airtunes emulator! Shairport is no longer maintained.
https://github.com/abrasive/shairport

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Airtunes emulator! Shairport is no longer maintained.

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/abrasive/shairport
Owner: abrasive
Created: 2011-04-11T06:30:05.000Z (over 13 years ago)
Default Branch: master
Last Pushed: 2022-01-14T19:51:45.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
Last Synced: 2024-05-22T16:31:06.183Z (6 months ago)
Language: C
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Size: 1.66 MB
Stars: 2,433
Watchers: 129
Forks: 1,101
Open Issues: 52
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSES

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README

        ShairPort is no longer maintained

=========

As I no longer use Shairport myself, I am no longer maintaining or supporting Shairport.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed over the years; it's been a great experience.

For the ongoing user, there are a great many forks and ports to choose from now, many of which are of a very high quality and well maintained.

— James

ShairPort

---------

By [James Laird](mailto:[email protected]) ([announcement](http://mafipulation.org/blagoblig/2011/04/08#shairport))

What it is

----------

This program emulates an AirPort Express for the purpose of streaming music from iTunes and compatible iPods and iPhones. It implements a server for the Apple RAOP protocol.

ShairPort does not support AirPlay v2 (video and photo streaming).

Build Requirements

------------------

Required:

* OpenSSL

Optionally:

* libao

* PulseAudio

* avahi

Debian/Raspbian users can get the basics with

`apt-get install libssl-dev libavahi-client-dev libasound2-dev`

Runtime Requirements

--------------------

You must be running an mDNS (Bonjour) daemon. On a Mac, this will be running already. Otherwise, you must be running avahi-daemon or Howl.

As an alternative, you may use the tinysvcmdns backend, which embeds a lightweight mDNS daemon. It is, however, way less robust than bonjour or avahi.

Check the [mDNS Backends] section for more information.

How to get started

-------------

```

./configure

make

./shairport -a 'My Shairport Name'

```

The triangle-in-rectangle AirTunes (now AirPlay) logo will appear in the iTunes status bar of any machine on the network, or on iPod/iPhone play controls screen. Choose your access point name to start streaming to the ShairPort instance.

Audio Outputs

-------------

Shairport supports different audio backends.

For a list of available backends and their options, run `shairport -h`.

Note that options are supplied to backends at the end of the commandline, separated by --, for example:

```

shairport -o ao -- -d mydriver -o setting=thing

```

mDNS Backends

-------------

Shairport uses mDNS to advertise the service. Multiple backends are available to perform the task.

For a list of available backends, run `shairport -h`.

The backends prefixed by 'external' rely on external programs that should be present in your path.

By default, shairport will try all backends, in the order they are listed by `shairport -h`, until one works.

You can force the use of a specific backend using `shairport -m tinysvcmdns` for example.

Metadata

--------

The following metadata can be output for the currently playing track:

  * artist

  * title

  * album

  * artwork

  * genre

  * comment

To enable the output of metadata, the `-M ` flag must be set to

instruct `shairport` where to save the output. This directory must exist. A

fifo named `now_playing` will be created, and records will be written to it

when tracks are changed. The end of a set of metadata is delimited by a

zero-length line. Cover filenames are relative to the cover directory. Files

are not deleted.

An example::

    artist=Arcade Fire

    title=City With No Children

    album=The Suburbs

    artwork=cover-e6450a45ab900815e831434f5ee0499c.jpg

    genre=Rock

    comment=

    

Thanks

------

Big thanks to David Hammerton for releasing an ALAC decoder, which is reproduced here in full.

Thanks to everyone who has worked to reverse engineer the RAOP protocol - after finding the keys, everything else was pretty much trivial.

Thanks also to Apple for obfuscating the private key in the ROM image, using a scheme that made the deobfuscation code itself stand out like a flare.

Thanks to Ten Thousand Free Men and their Families for having a computer and stuff.

Thanks to wtbw.

Contributors to version 1.x

---------------------------

* [James Laird](http://mafipulation.org)

* [Paul Lietar](http://www.lietar.net/~paul)

* [Quentin Smart](http://github.com/sm3rt)

* [Brendan Shanks](http://github.com/mrpippy)

* [Peter Körner](http://mazdermind.de)

* [Muffinman](http://github.com/therealmuffin)

* [Skaman](http://github.com/skaman)

* [Weston](http://github.com/wnielson)

* [allesblinkt](http://github.com/allesblinkt)

Contributors to version 0.x

---------------------------

* [James Laird](mailto:[email protected]), author

* [David Hammerton](http://craz.net/), ALAC decoder

* [Albert Zeyer](http://www.az2000.de), maintainer

* [Preston Marshall](mailto:[email protected])

* [Mads Mætzke Tandrup](mailto:[email protected])

* [Martin Spasov](mailto:[email protected])

* [Oleg Kertanov](mailto:[email protected])

* [Rafał Kwaśny](mailto:[email protected])

* [Rakuraku Jyo](mailto:[email protected])

* [Vincent Gijsen](mailto:[email protected])

* [lars](mailto:[email protected])

* [Stuart Shelton](https://blog.stuart.shelton.me/)

* [Andrew Webster](mailto:[email protected])

Known Ports and Tools

---------------------

* Java:

    * [JAirPort](https://github.com/froks/JAirPort)

    * [RPlay](https://github.com/bencall/RPlay)

* Windows:

    * [shairport4w](http://sf.net/projects/shairport4w)

* OS X:

    * [ShairportMenu](https://github.com/rcarlsen/ShairPortMenu), a GUI wrapper as a menu widget

    * [MacShairport](https://github.com/joshaber/MacShairport)