Sunday, 26 December 2010
Remote Speakers Output Plug-In 3.0
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Seasons greetings! The holidays have finally afforded me a little free time to take take care of some unfinished business. This gives me a chance to work up a posting to update you on some current affairs. As some of you may know, I was recently married in October, so I haven't had a lot of free time beforehand or since. Thank you all for your well wishes. It is nice to have these little personal connections that just don't come from working at a big software house. In that spirit, I thought I would share one of the more fun-filled photos from the wedding (see right).
It has been a long time coming, but I have finally put the finishing touches on Remote Speakers Output Plug-In 3.0. I have been working on this release for almost two years now and I didn't want to go into the new year without putting something out there. I had to pull back on a few features that were not quite ready, like Windows Media Player support. However, I feel that the base of what is now v3 is strong and will make a great platform for supporting more players and developing new features, including some of the brand new things that Apple has branded AirPlay.
- Added support for XMPlay with new plug-in DLL
- Added support for static configuration of remote speakers; Bonjour is optional
- Added device icons to remote speakers listbox in options dialog and in new device configuration dialog
- Added display of stale devices in options dialog and remote speakers submenu
- Added check for Bonjour daemon status; plug-in will no longer crash if service is not running
- Extended international (Unicode) character support beyond Active Code Page in dialogs and menus
- Redesigned project source code from procedural C into object-oriented C++
- Split core functionality and Winamp plug-in into separate DLLs
- Upgraded libraries: Bonjour to 2.0.4, OpenSSL to 1.0.0c, Secret Rabbit Code (libsamplerate) to 0.1.7 and added Poco 1.4.0
Overall, I think v3 is much more polished and I hope to get a chance to make it even better in 2011. Until then, please download the new version, use it and let me know what you think. See you again soon.
Great Job! This is what we are looking for, flexible use of apple products ;-) If you need some new feature suggestions: I would opt for a way to select your streaming device (like iTunes) to stream to multiple or just one speaker. And, you mentioned it yourself, Airplay support would be great as well. I so much hate iTunes and do love Mediamonkey, that having this functionality would allow me to leave iTunes for what it is... Great job! Regards Alex
Thought - you know what would be awesome. If your plugin came included in Android Winamp. What are the difficulties there? I would dearly love to be able to stream music from a tablet/phone to speakers and get rid of the whole 'pc-running' limitation.
Hi Eric,
This looks great.
Can you confirm that flac files ripped at 44.1 kHz and sample size of 16 bits are transmitted by your Remote Speaker app without loss in quality to the Airport Express?
Thank you.
Mike
Hi Eric,
I was wondering if your plug-in supports "Air-play" as well as the Airport Express. I just upgraded my system to the new Denon AVR line that includes the airplay add-on. Itunes finds the receiver with no hiccups and streams music beautifully, but MediaMonkey is at a stand-still, and I can't seem to configure your plug-in properly, and I'm not planning on getting an airport express as it seems redundant. Is this something that should work? Is this something you are working on? You'd have an immediate license purchase if so, and it seems like a logical add-on as Airplay becomes integrated into more web enabled components.
Thanks!
What a great product. Have it working with Airport Express 802.11n, Winamp and Spotify to a DacMagic and it works flawlessly. You do need to use other software as well for this configuration.
Did try Airfoil what a waste of time currently.
Waiting for my license now.
Thank you.
Mark
Trying it out now.
Couple of initial comments: your build embeds the 32bit-only version of the Bonjour installer, and a lot of people like me are now on Win7/64
Seem to have found a bug: in Mediamonkey, I switch to using remote speakers, so far so good but when I switch back to using built-in mediamonkey output plugin it still sends the output to remote speaker it seems. I have to quit and restart mediamonkey and then upon restarting it uses the correct output plugin.