Stream Music over Wi-Fi: JustePort, MP3 Support Needed

Right, about 2 weeks ago Jon Lech Johansen released JustePort, a tool to stream your Apple music files to your AirPort Express.

His site went down almost as soon as the big news sites picked it up, and the source of JustePort couldn’t be downloaded.

I also didn’t see much blogging about this, which is strange, because his tool is written in C#!

A few days ago I got an AirPort Express and now I’m streaming .mp3 to it from iTunes (on Windows) but I have to use iTunes, and that’s not something I like, pulling me away from Winamp…

JustePort can’t stream .mp3 files to it, but the source is available (and here is a mirror), so maybe there is someone with a better understanding of handling music files in C# who could write something to stream .mp3 to it.

Hopefully there will be a Winamp plugin someday to do this.

It’s a great piece of technology, a very small Wi-Fi access point which you can plug into an electric outlet and to your stereo and stream music to it through the air.

I guess if someone has too much time on his hands and wants a challenge, this is one, writing an mp3 player that can stream to the AirPort Express (with volume control, play, pause, prev, next and playlist support of course ;))

Update: the AirTunes protocol (now AirPlay) was later fully reverse-engineered, and many players, including Winamp plugins, can stream MP3 to an AirPort Express.