procrastination diagram

First, an unhappiness: Casa Mexico closed! The outright best Mexican food in Boston, the best spiced coffee.. no more.

I'm sitting in the downstairs living room, watching Garry and Shmike play Mario Kart while Shmike (between races) is ripping his CDs into iTunes and poking at Garry's music collection (which Garry has in iTunes). So I start wondering how hard it would be to poke at an iTunes collection from a linux box, and started googling...

It looks fairly promising. Ignoring the ac3 decoding issue for now, I found a perl client, which I'm too tired to try right now, lots of protocol notes, two libraries, two servers, and an overarching website. Yay listening to Garry's music, maybe, someday. If I'm careful I won't even have to write any code.

There's plenty out there for messing with daap shares. I've found it much easier to have linux act as a server than a client.

Gnat's dapple stuff needs a bit of work to talk to itunes 4.1 shares, but probably not much work.

I wonder if itunes with the appropriate plugs can use oggs served by a daapd.