The last thing which interested me is playdar : a music content resolver. I never reach to run it, so I decided to create mine. Introducing PyPlaydar : a Playdar music server resolver. Currently, it resolves nothing ;-). It's just the implementation of the playdar protocol. But it's easily plugin'able ! It's fully compatible with current JS clients !

It use the latest bottlepy and the cherrypy wsgi server (all included).

At this time, I really don't know if I will push it. Currently, it helps me to understand how it's working. I'm trying to chain Playnode(a recent java one) and tomahawk, a smart music player which embed a playdar server.

I'd like to create a content-resolver playdar server for my squeezebox'es. But I don't know yet, if I will push it, because I already have this kind of feature (my own resolver).

The other boxes, which take my time, are the squeezebox'es. I've bought a Touch and a Radio one. I wanted to change the way to listen music at home. In the past, my main computer was running mpd. The sound was sended to the hifi in living-room, and to different active radio-frequency HP in home. The server was drived thru a http website, the multimedia's keys of my keyboard, or with a radio-frequency remote. It was great, but not really simple for others ;-). With SqueezeBox'es : they do all that things (and a lot more) in a simpler way, with LCD display. For me : it's the perfect solution ! Everything is now inter-connected : my music (on a Nas), my computers, the box'es (squeeze and freebox), and the audio with my lastfm account.

And the best : I can develop things on the squeezebox device, or on the serverside, to enhance the experience. I've started my dev with a generic applet (in LUA), which is able to understand json commands, over http, to display some widgets on the device (menu, search box, text ...). It let me easily develop serverside's features with python ;-)

I'm in love with theses boxes ! They are perfect for non-geeks, but are really really perfect for geeks/developpers too.

I think I will release my squeezebox's applet, because it's an easy way to add serverside's features (in any language) not related to a real squeezebox server (which is perl based ;-( ).