JustePort streams audio to an Airport Express

It seems like Jon Johansen can barely let a month go by without releasing something exceptionally useful. This month, he figures out the encryption that iTunes uses for streaming Apple Lossless audio, thus theoretically allowing any application (on any operating system) to send audio to an Airport Express. JustePort is his little command line tool that does just that. It works, too, as long as the file is in Apple Lossless format, though it uses twice as much CPU as iTunes (and that's even without the realtime lossless encoding).

August 11, 2004

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When running JustePort under WinXP with the MS .NET runtime it uses around 50% less CPU than iTunes.

The mono runtime isn't as optimized.

Posted by: Jon Lech Johansen on August 12, 2004 3:23 PM

any possible way to get his web site back up?

Or, i suppose this is just crazy talk here, get the application mirrored onto other sites.

Also, Jon here's an idea. Not sure if your really interested yourself but I do know plenty that would be. Make a flac plugin for QuickTime/iTunes.

http://flac.sourceforge.net/

Posted by: lenny on August 13, 2004 9:38 PM

Here's a mirror of the JustePort source code, for now: http://hublog.hubmed.org/files/justeport-0.1.zip

As for a FLAC plugin for QuickTime, you just have to look four posts into the future: http://hublog.hubmed.org/archives/000930.html

Posted by: alf on August 13, 2004 10:16 PM

alf- you rock duder! thanks for the info (esp. on the flac/QT/iTunes stuff).

I can now listen to flac files in QT/iTunes. yippeeeee!

Posted by: lenny on August 18, 2004 3:21 AM

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