Apple AirPlay

Just a re-publication of this mail. Just in case.


Hi all,

VLC has had RAOP output for a while; is there interest in RAOP input as well?

I've extracted the Airport Express RSA private key that is necessary to implement this.
An example implementation is available at:
http://mafipulation.org/blagoblig/2011/04/08#shairport

The private key follows.
Regards,
James

-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
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wC5vOYvfDmFI6oSFXi5ELabWJmT2dKHzBJKa3k9ok+8t9ucRqMd6DZHJ2YCCLlDRKSKv6kDqnw4U
wPdpOMXziC/AMj3Z/lUVX1G7WSHCAWKf1zNS1eLvqr+boEjXuBOitnZ/bDzPHrTOZz0Dew0uowxf
/+sG+NCK3eQJVxqcaJ/vEHKIVd2M+5qL71yJQ+87X6oV3eaYvt3zWZYD6z5vYTcrtij2VZ9Zmni/
UAaHqn9JdsBWLUEpVviYnhimNVvYFZeCXg/IdTQ+x4IRdiXNv5hEewIDAQABAoIBAQDl8Axy9XfW
BLmkzkEiqoSwF0PsmVrPzH9KsnwLGH+QZlvjWd8SWYGN7u1507HvhF5N3drJoVU3O14nDY4TFQAa
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NtD6nL1ZKauw7aNXmVAvmJTcuPxWmoktF3gDJKK2wxZuNGcJE0uFQEG4Z3BrWP7yoNuSK3dii2jm
lpPHr0O/KnPQtzI3eguhe0TwUem/eYSdyzMyVx/YpwkzwtYL3sR5k0o9rKQLtvLzfAqdBxBurciz
aaA/L0HIgAmOit1GJA2saMxTVPNhAoGBAPfgv1oeZxgxmotiCcMXFEQEWflzhWYTsXrhUIuz5jFu
a39GLS99ZEErhLdrwj8rDDViRVJ5skOp9zFvlYAHs0xh92ji1E7V/ysnKBfsMrPkk5KSKPrnjndM
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AoGBANDrr7xAJbqBjHVwIzQ4To9pb4BNeqDndk5Qe7fT3+/H1njGaC0/rXE0Qb7q5ySgnsCb3DvA
cJyRM9SJ7OKlGt0FMSdJD5KG0XPIpAVNwgpXXH5MDJg09KHeh0kXo+QA6viFBi21y340NonnEfdf
54PX4ZGS/Xac1UK+pLkBB+zRAoGAf0AY3H3qKS2lMEI4bzEFoHeK3G895pDaK3TFBVmD7fV0Zhov
17fegFPMwOII8MisYm9ZfT2Z0s5Ro3s5rkt+nvLAdfC/PYPKzTLalpGSwomSNYJcB9HNMlmhkGzc
1JnLYT4iyUyx6pcZBmCd8bD0iwY/FzcgNDaUmbX9+XDvRA0CgYEAkE7pIPlE71qvfJQgoA9em0gI
LAuE4Pu13aKiJnfft7hIjbK+5kyb3TysZvoyDnb3HOKvInK7vXbKuU4ISgxB2bB3HcYzQMGsz1qJ
2gG0N5hvJpzwwhbhXqFKA4zaaSrw622wDniAK5MlIE0tIAKKP4yxNGjoD2QYjhBGuhvkWKaXTyY=
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----

Hello world

Cablegate: the game

A silly little game where one tags names, organisations, places, events and topics in the 'cables' (the diplomatic communications leaked by wikileaks). It isn't clear whether any of the tags are actually used by anyone, though. Can't hurt to browse a little, though :).

Unhosted is another interesting project I read about earlier today. Apparently, they want to distribute hosting over the web, to protect against vendor lock-ins and government shutdowns. They have a manifesto and a work-in-progress protocol. While their goal is very noble, I am unsure how they will achieve a fully distributed system aimed at something that can change on the spot (web 2.0 apps). Actually, their focus lies on the application itself, not the data. So the 'program' Google Docs or last.fm's radio and recommendation system, but not the data behind it. The idea seems to be to move all the processing to the client; the server is then only used for serving the code (that is, the program) and storing the data.

An interesting thought, but unlike many open-source projects (eg, the linux kernel, Django, Python, Firefox and so on), this project is unlikely to succeed for the very reason that this concept would take away control of the user from the company that controls the program; after all, if this becomes reality, saving you google docs document on one of Microsoft's services should be trivial!

Industrial hardcore/power noise

Subwoofer time!
Here's some stuff I've been listening to on this fine evening:

Liquid Blasted - Kremlincore:


Full stream on last.fm.
discogs page & you can buy it right here (2x12"). Hard, fast, good 4/5.

Terrorfakt - Cold Steel World:


After freshly ripping this from CD (I bought it together with Skinny Puppy's The Greater Wrong of the Right), I was kind of disappointed yet again. This album just looses it's punch if you get up with it every morning for a while. Anyway, you can find it on Amazon and iTunes or from the label. Discogs entry. 3/5.

After Terrorfakt, I grabbed something a little more gentle, in the form of Pneumatic Detach - [re·vis·cer·a]:

I'm pretty sure this is a remix album of the guy's previous album, 2005's [vis·cer·a]. Remixes are by Terrorfakt and thirteen other artists I've never heard of. I actually downloaded this a long time ago, after hearing some of Pneumatic Detach's own stuff on the last.fm radio. At the first listen, I remember being suprised by the more EBM sound, but right now it was simply quite enjoyable, though it could use a little more punch. Notably, the track Embers (remix by Censor) was a drum'n'bass track, which was a pleasant suprise. 3.5/5.

And after this, it is time for one of my first 'connections' to the power noise genre, xotox - (Die) Unruhe:


This shit is really hard. REALLY hard. Not in the sense of a difficult listen, just an incredibly hard bass. The biggest 'flaw' of this album is that it consists of two core tracks: Mechanische Unruhe (Mechanical Unrest) and Nasse Wände (according to google translate, Damp Walls) and remixes of them. Scattered inbetween these remixes, another 6 original tracks are around, which brings the album to a total of 15 tracks. Remixes are by a bunch of artists I've never heard of, though Jesus Complex sounds vaguely familiar. At just over an hour of hard, loud music, it's pretty hard to hold an album together. If one takes this into account, this is one damn fine album. But of course, I don't do that, but judge the album on it's experience. There's still an okay amount of variety here: the MH20 remix of Mechanische Unruhe (by Heimataerde) is probably one of the most EBM-like tracks, but there is also borderline noise stuff here like Pumpe/Düse and Paderborn, which paint a bleak picture of a late-night party in an industrial facility of inhumane proportions. Overall, 4/5.

Anyway, enough for today. I'll probably make a post somewhere tomorrow on my most recent purchase, Wodensthrone's awesome atmospheric black metal debut Loss. If you can't wait, metal-achives has some reviews for your reading pleasure. Also, I finally got around to fetching Swans' debut, Filth, which is one of those albums which I'm probably going to regret not checking out earlier.

< RAGE > On an unrelated note, /mu/ is being really godawfully slow recently. I suspect /b/ is to blame, since the 4chan status blog and our good friend downforeveryoneorjustme both say that img, dat and static.4chan.org are down. < /RAGE >

Krzysztof Komeda Quintet - Astigmatic

Hey folks,

Since it's North Sea Jazz festival time this weekend, I'll post some jazz.

First off, I found the following post on /mu/ today:

and for something a little older

Krzysztof Komeda - Astigmatic
>Avant-garde Jazz, Polish Jazz
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?zm10gjzlim2
A true classic and really a must have for any comprehensive jazz collection

Bitrate: 320

And I must say, this is an amazing record. Way up there with Ornette Coleman and Eric Dolphy. I can't tell you much more about it than this and what the post above says. Amazing in one word. Go listen to it.

Beyond this, I would also like to bring to your attention the slightly less avant-garde, but no less amazing music that Rashaan Roland Kirk:


Out of these two, Rip, Rig and Panic is my favorite. On the other hand, The Inflated Tear's cover is more awesome, showing what Kirk is known for: playing multiple saxophones at once.


Anyway, for all of you people who are in the Netherlands, hop over the radio 6 website and catch some of the shows on the North Sea Jazz festival this weekend! They've got an excellent and variated show with interviews, recordings, live samples and everything you want to know about NSJ.


Information:
Krzysztof Komeda on last.fm
Rahsaan Roland Kirk on last.fm
radio6/NSJ (in Dutch)
radio6 twitter

Cosmicdust - Snow Noise Assemblage

Hey dudes,



/mu/ is still down. So I bring you some shoegaze, to cover for /mu/'s absence. Cosmicdust is a one-man shoegaze band from Japan. As seemingly all music from Japan that is not j-pop, this album has it's amount of noise. As My Bloody Valentine, it has the dreamy atmosphere combined with the delicious noisyness. However, where the noise of MBV becomes annoying to the later half of the album (AH FUCK MY EARS), this album balances it out with some quiet, near-ambient parts (Bird Cries is a pretty good example). On the other side, there is some delicious loudness (see Meditation), sometimes to the point of nearly being noise.

I would provide you with a link, but I can't find any. You can stream some of the tracks on the album page as well as on the myspace page. Good luck searching.

As a final, I'd like to mention LSD and the Search for God, which released a self-titled EP (last.fm) for streaming on last.fm (click to stream).

They're also shoegaze and quite a nice calm-down for after this album. See their Myspace page for more information. If you must download it, google can help you. The fourth hit is also one of the blogs that /mu/ has produced.

Listen, and enjoy!

Linkage:
last.fm music profile
last.fm user profile
/mu/ on last.fm
4chan status blog
blog of some of /mu/'s tripfags

Little Brother

Here's a quick recommendation on something you have to read.
Little Brother is a freely available ebook by writer Cory Doctorow. Now, I'll try to keep this short because I don't know anything about books, but this is awesome. It's about a little nerdy kid who happens to be at the wrong place at the wrong time during a massive terrorist attack in San Francisco. After he is released from his terrorism prison, his city has turned in to a police state.
If you care about any of the following:

• Privacy


• Paranoia


• Hacking


• Sci-fi about the near future


• Nerdy stuff

Then get reading. Like I said, I don't know anything about books (I don't read apart from college books and stuff on the internet), but I read this 'out in one breath' as the Dutch saying goes. It also gives some alpha-friendly information about Bayesian Math, DNS and some cryptography. If you're not a tech-person, don't worry: the explaination is really good and avoids technial details. All you need to know is that most things described in this book are real or near-future (5-10 years?) technology.