Project Status about dacp-net HOT 7 CLOSED

There is no roadmap or timeline for this project.    I actually have the code 
complete except for the fact that my Bonjour handling is windows only and I 
would prefer to have native Bonjour handling rather than count on a library.  
This would allow it to be cross platform for Mono.

I also make a lot of money selling this product (MonkeyTunes for MediaMonkey) 
that I am still deciding whether to open source it or not.   I create the 
Google Code project in case I decided to open source it since I wanted to grab 
the name dacp.net before someone else did.

Did you have a specific player in mind you wanted to create a DACP Server for?

Yes, AlbumPlayer to be specific. http://www.albumplayer.com/
I was hoping to find an implementation that was not hard coded to any specific 
player or perhaps a project that allowed dacp libs to be bridged to any players 
api or even a dlna or squeeze converter for that matter. Seeing that we have 
these independent copies of dacp implementations, mediamonkey, foobar, 
songbird, Rhythmbox, stereo. Right now libdmapsharing and daapd seem like the 
best librarys. So this project seemed to be possibly the best, obviously you 
have one of the best implementations of dacp in your product, it looks to be 
very good. I certainly understand your hesitance.

OK so the good news is I am working with Peter from AlbumPlayer for native DACP 
support in AlbumPlayer in 2011.   He and I have known each other for a long 
time since my app Intelliremote supports AlbumPlayer.

I definitely know what you mean about a bridged implementation but what makes 
that tough is that each of these players is SOOO different like Linux vs 
Windows, like C code vs .NET vs Delphi vs C++ etc.  That it would be hard to 
create one common library or API that could be used by all of them in a generic 
way that could be bridged.  

I am sure it could be done with a lot of planning up front but DACP is very 
very very complex and to try and do a one size fits all implementation would be 
difficult.  Not saying it would be impossible, just difficult.

This project is complete and Album Player now has a DACP plugin available from 
the AlbumPlayer developer.

I have just released the source of this project.