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Shairport basically emulates an apple airport, so it would allow me to plug my phone into some speakers and play my iTunes library through my n900.

Here are the reqs:
Is this feasible?

I would also be interested in getting this running. I already have it running on an Ubuntu Server, where I had to and could substitute some of the packages with others.

Maemo seems to be missing too many, or I am not competent enough to know which would be suitable replacements.

Distortedvoice, could you please just try and install the above packages and report which ones are missing? Then we could see if there is someone kind enough to suggest suitable alternatives.

I installed all the reqs.

apt-get install openssl
apt-get install libao0
apt-get install perl (it also installed perl-modules)
apt-get install avahi-daemon


I ran the following to try and get the modules for perl.

got some sketchy output.

Here's my output of running 'perl shairport.pl'

I did compile the hairtunes file on my x64 desktop. I think it was compiled in C. I will setup scratchbox tomorrow and compile for arm. (unless someone wants to quickly compile it for me in their cross-compile environment)

Managed to get this running on my N810 so if anyone wants to turn their old nit to airplay speakers (or connect to stereo), I could create a simple package for this.

Definitely interested in a package that would install on N900 as well, or enough pieces so that I can create the package.

I'll try to release a script that starts/stops shairport on N810 via terminal and will test N900 too. If it works ok and there's interest, I could probably create a simple gui app for both of them.

770 lacks ipv6 support, but if I manage to flash the kernel and its libs aren't too old (and cpu/wlan can handle the load), maybe it's a possibility too.

EDIT: Managed to build it for 770, but it segfaults on "Floating point error" and debugging didn't get me anywhere

If I can remember how to make it run as a daemon, script would be more than sufficient for my purposes.

Have you tried extended play on the n810? I never could make it play for a longer time without random breaks on the Ubuntu box.

Same binary worked on N900. Made rude scripts for n8x0/n900 that start/stop it and install missing dependencies on first run. I may have missed something since both of my installs are from several years back and I've installed a lot of stuff. Script uses killall so if you use avahi-publish-service for anything else, you may need to fix it (or just run the binary).

Script must be run as root (shairport runs as normal user) and N900 version doesn't really need root rights if everything needed is installed.

I guess the C version is unfinished and buggy since it's totally ignored by docs, but I didn't notice any bad issues with it yet. You can't set a password though.

And as always, you shouldn't download random stuff from a random forum, especially if it requires root rights.

EDIT: I've attached another binary (shairport.gz) for those who need to run a command on client connect/disconnect (for example to power on/off amplifier/speakers). Just gunzip shairport.gz and replace the shairport binary in bin-directory. It's not working on daemon mode so you need to start it in the background with & without using -d. Those who don't need such a feature don't need to download shairport.gz.

Almost... But I can't seem to find libao to install. Any hints on the repository? I have all the different "extras" activated.

Hmm, it should be in extras for N900.

http://maemo.org/packages/view/libao0/
http://repository.maemo.org/extras/p...emo2_armel.deb

Couldn't find a package for diablo in extras so I grabbed one for earlier (chinook) and bundled it in the tarball.