Net::DAAP

This library is used for browsing iTunes DAAP servers.

Most of this is based off the work in the perl version by Richard Clamp which can be found here:

search.cpan.org/~rclamp/

Ruby version is by Aaron Patterson <[email protected]>

Installation

Make sure that Digest::M4P is installed before using this package. Digest::M4P is available on the daap client ruby forge site:

rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=1155

Digest::M4P has not been turned in to a Ruby gem as of this writing.

After that, just install the gem:

sudo gem install daapclient

Also, check out the project page:

rubyforge.org/projects/daapclient

Example Usage

require 'net/daap'
require 'fileutils'

daap = Net::DAAP::Client.new('localhost')

daap.connect do |dsn|
  daap.databases do |db|
    puts "All songs in the database"
    db.songs do |song|
      filename = "#{song.artist} - #{song.name}.#{song.format}"
      directory = "db/#{song.album}"
      FileUtils::mkdir_p(directory)

      File.open("#{directory}/#{filename}", "w") do |f|
        song.get { |str| f.write str }
      end
    end
  end
end

Acknowledgements

The library is mostly a port of the Perl library, and owes most of its communication logic to the original Perl version by Richard Clamp.

Author

It also comes with a shameless plug for employment coding Ruby, my most favorite language! ;-)

License

This library is distributed under the GPL. Please see the LICENSE file.