README.txt

RPlay v0.01a
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Benjamin de Callatay <bencall@hotmail.com>
April 22, 2011

What it is
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This program is in alpha version.
It emulates an Airport Express for the purpose of streaming music from iTunes and compatible iPods. It implements a server for the Apple RAOP protocol.

Installation
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Double clicking on RPlay.jar in the binaries folder should be enough...

Thanks
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Big thanks to David Hammerton for releasing an ALAC decoder and to soiaf for porting it to Java (https://github.com/soiaf/Java-Apple-Lossless-decoder).
Thanks to Jame Laird for his C implementation (shairport - https://github.com/albertz/shairport)
Thanks to anyone involved in one of the libraries i used for creating this software.

Libraries & References
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These libraries are included in RPlay:
* http://www.bouncycastle.org/latest_releases.html
* http://commons.apache.org/
* https://github.com/albertz/shairport
* https://github.com/soiaf/Java-Apple-Lossless-decoder

Contributors
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* [David Hammerton]
* [James Laird]
* [soiaf]
* Everyone who has helped with shairport, the alac decoder (or the java port of it), apache commons lib or bouncycastle lib (see their README)

Changelog
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* 0.01a  April 22, 2011
    * initial release: able to communicate with iTunes (RTSP server ok)
* 0.01b  May 01, 2011
    * First working version. Still buggy. Usable.   
* 0.01   May 06, 2011
    * First binary version. Need feedback.