daapClient 0.0.1a

[J . Aaron Pendergrass]

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Hello all,  I have been working for some time now on a client for  
iTunes v4.0 music sharing and have developed an app which currently has  
the unimaginative name daapClient (daap is the protocol used by  
iTunes).

It is still in a very very early and unstable state, but I have decided  
to release it into the wild to try to harness the power of open source.

My goal is for the app to properly load a shared library (and  
playlists) and be able to stream songs and play them back without  
skipping on a 90 mhz pentium 1 with 90 megs of ram running debian.

The program does successfully load a shared library, and almost plays  
back properly, but it does skip some (on the afore mentioned dinosaur).  
 I have spent the past few weeks trying to improve performance but have  
more or less exhausted all obvious routes.

daapClient is written in objective C and uses GNUstep as well as the  
libmad for mp3 decoding, and OSS for audio playback (there's also some  
esd stuff in there, but I don't know how well it works anymore).

daapClient is published under the GPL and can be downloaded from  
http://emergency.nearest-exit.org/~aaron/code/daapclient.shtml  or  
directly at  
http://emergency.nearest-exit.org/~aaron/daapclient/daapClient 
- -0.0.1a.tgz

I believe that daapClient relies on behavior not found in the  
gnustep-1.9.0 base package but is available in the CVS repository  
(specifically NSURLHandle's availableResourceData has to return some  
data while it is still loading rather than just returning nil).

I look forward to any contributions to the project.
aaron
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