Comments on: JustePort 0.2

By: Peter Kmoch

Peter Kmoch — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 08:00:06 +0000

Has anyone considered doing the other end of the connection? In other words, I have an always-on PC connected to my living room speakers already. I’d like to have that pretend to be an AirPort base station so I can play tunes from other PCs through it.

I know I could use (for example) http://www.nat32.com’s utilities to stream the sound without having anything to do with AirPort, but I like the AirTunes user interface. It connects directly into iTunes, the speakers advertise themselves on the network, and so on.

By: thenotself

thenotself — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 22:14:05 +0000

This tool would be fantastic if we could set a delay on the audio. When playing through multiple speakers, we obviously get a delay on the playback from the AE, however if we set the delay in VLC then the playback from the PC is out of sync.

If we could set the delay on justeport, then the AE could be delayed but the PC speakers could not be – that would be ideal!

By: Salvador

Salvador — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 10:08:44 +0000

Hey!
I finaly managed to download JustePort soucecode (the link was down for several days) ! Thank you so much Jon!
I struggled a couple hours to get to play all the files in a folder, mainly because almost all of the methods described in the posts above are for windows users and I’m a (happy) Ubuntu Dapper user.
So I decided to make my little contribution to this thread and tell you my command to play all of the mp3 files in a folder if you’re a linux user (there are no guarantees that this will work for every distribution out there, but you can always get help in your favourite forum ). Let’s cut to the chase, to get to play all of the files in a given folder, open a terminal, navigate to that folder and type:
cat *.mp3 | lame --mp3input --decode - | JustePort.exe 10.0.1.1
Note: I’m assuming you compiled JustePort.exe from the source code, and put it in /usr/bin/
Bonus: you can make an alias like this:
alias playall="cat *.mp3 | lame --mp3input --decode - | JustePort.exe 10.0.1.1"
and then type playall in the terminal instead of the whole command.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 12 May 2006 04:38:08 +0000

Hey, great help site everyone! thanks to Arne for the justeport for dummies. As I understand it, this doesn’t work for mp3s. Does it work for internet streaming music like http://www.pandora.com? So far, I am able to get this source to output sound. thanks!

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 11 May 2006 06:05:17 +0000

I am using WinXP without success. Have I go this right?

My Airport IP is 192.168.2.7.

1 – Play an audio CD through speakers
2 – At the command prompt enter: ain 3600 | Justeport – 192.168.2.7
( Note there is a space before and after the dash char after Justeport_

Here’s what I get but no sound out of my Airport Express:

D:\download\audio\Nat32>ain 3600 | Justeport – 192.168.2.7
JackStatus: connected
JackType: analog

My eventual goal is to pipe Pandora to my Airport Express. Any advice is much appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

-Ed

By: Henrik

Henrik — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:16:16 +0000

Streaming from xmms to airport (Alsa required)

1) create a named pipe:
mkfifo /tmp/test.wav

2) Add this to your ~/.asoundrc:
pcm.stdout { type file slave.pcm default file /tmp/test.wav }

3) Create airtunes-stream.sh, and run it:
#!/bin/sh
if [ ! -p /tmp/test.wav ] then mkfifo /tmp/test.wav fi
while true do cat /tmp/test.wav | ~/bin/JustePort.exe - 10.0.1.1 0 sleep 1 done

4) Install XMMS with crossfade:
aptitude install xmms xmms-crossfade

5) Configure XMMS with Audio I/O Output Crossfade. Let Crossfade use ALSA with audio device stdout (from pt. 2).

6) Play music

You can also stream with other alsa-supporting applications, e.g.
mplayer -ao alsa:device=stdout file.mp3

NB! This method is prone to hickups in the audio stream, due to missing buffering between the fifo and justeport

By: Henrik

Henrik — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 10:40:16 +0000

MP3 playback with Lame didn’t work for me, while mpg123 worked just fine:

mpg123 -s somesong.mp3 | Justeport.exe - 10.0.1.1 0

By: Eric Milles

Eric Milles — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 02:17:25 +0000

I wasn’t too pleased with having to launch a separate program, enduing a gap between playback of each track, having to install the .NET framework, etc. So I rolled my own Winamp (or MediaMonkey) plug-in.

http://emilles.dyndns.org/software/out_apx.html

The following features are currently available:

* Accepts any 16-bit mono or stereo input; resamples as necessary to support any sample rate
* Supports a full set of playback operations (play, pause, stop, seek, prev/next track, adjust volume, etc.)
* Plays multiple tracks with no gap between tracks (except any gap inserted by input plug-in)
* Supports password-protected remote speakers
* Installs by copying a single file
* Does not depend on third-party installs (.NET Framework, iTunes, QuickTime, etc.)

By: a

Wed, 29 Mar 2006 16:21:35 +0000

This works great. However, on a laptop, is there a way that I can have it not play through the internal speakers, but still play through JustePort?

I guess I could always stick a 1/8″ plug into the headphone jack.

By: blamm

blamm — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:24:32 +0000

Hi,

Will Justeport allow me to play my Ogg, MP3 and FLAC encoded files on my PC and hear the audio wirelessly via an Airport Express?

Blamm