dmapd

A server that provides DAAP and DPAP shares

Overview

The dmapd project provides a GObject-based, Open Source implementation of DMAP sharing with the following features:

• Support for both DAAP and DPAP
• Support for realtime transcoding of media formats not natively supported by clients
• Support for many metadata formats, such as those associated with Ogg Vorbis and MP3 (e.g., ID3)
• Detection of video streams so that clients may play them as video
• Use of GStreamer to support a wide range of audio and video CODECs
• Caching of photograph thumbnails to avoid regenerating them each time the server restarts

Details

Any client that supports DAAP or DPAP may play media made available by dmapd. This includes the following software clients and hardware devices:

• iTunes™
• iPhoto™
• Rhythmbox
• Roku SoundBridge™