[LINUX] AirPlay / AirTunes Metadata Streaming

(2012-05-09 01:31)acandido Wrote:  Awesome work! This was the one *tiny* thing that annoyed me about XBMC, now it's perfect

No its not - only itunes sends metadata - not working via ios devices (which i prefer to use for streaming music for example).

(2012-05-09 10:54)Memphiz Wrote:  No its not - only itunes sends metadata - not working via ios devices (which i prefer to use for streaming music for example).

OK, fair enough. Halfway there I guess. I'm actually quite surprised that streaming from iTunes vs. iOS uses different encryption. If anything I'd expect them both to use Fairplay, or ideally nothing.

No - we announce that we only understand "RSA" encryption. Thats why both send the audio with RSA encrypted. iTunes is so nice to deliver metadata via RSA encryption too. But apple told iOS to not do so .

I figured out that my ipad with iOS 4.3.5 sends metadata to XBMC, my iPod with iOS 5.0.1 doesn't. So at least the older iOS versions work same like with iTunes

Nice, so lucky for people who have their old SHSH blobs and are willing to downgrade

Does iOS > 4.3.x use RSA encryption for streaming and FairPlay for metadata? I guess most legacy devices that support AirPlay wouldn't be able to do anything w/ metadata anyway.

no. Both is encrypted the same way (stream + metadata). But when the server announces that he doesn't support fairplay - the new ios devices use whats possible (rsa) and just skip sending metadata over it and only deliver the stream.