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02/11/2007 Entry: "Official - AirTunes Rocks."
I finally got around to hooking up an Airport Express to my lounge hi-fi. This rocks.
I am a happy camper, despite the fact that Apple appear to keep cow-towing to the media industries by repeatedly crippling the otherwise useful protocol that is DAAP.
I can, somewhat, understand the limiting of share visibility to the local subnet (read: broadcast domain) - certainly in terms of bonjour/zeroconf behaviour. It might help to mitigate security issues, even if it's security by obscurity.
Maybe a user-enabled (opt-in) option to allow directed (i.e. specify hostname/ip address) querying of a DAAP server would be a palatable option, or the ability to configure a list of trusted hosts which are allowed to do off-net DAAP without kludgy tunnelling?
I suppose, if you hate DAAP 7.0 that much, you could always run something like daapd - http://www.deleet.de/projekte/daap/daapd/
