Just wondering. It would seem to me that if there was some sort of loop-back audio device driver for Windows that this could be used to support DRM-protected music playing to a Squeezbox. The idea would be that you could control Windows Media Player to play the DRM-protected music, capture the audio output from the virtual audio driver, and send it back out to the Squeezbox.
High Criteria (the Total Recorder people) have an SDK version of their product that I imagine would enable someone to code up something like this. It would be a huge plus on Windows; basically, it would allow us to get around all the BS involved with proprietary DRM-based music clients and let us fairly easily redirect streams from those clients to the SlimServer via the Total Recorder virtual sound card driver.
http://www.highcriteria.com/productfr_trDEV.htm
"Total Recorder Developer Edition brings all of the recording features and controls of Total Recorder Professional Edition, to programmers and their applications. Total Recorder DE includes OLE Automation support that provides a programming interface to Total Recorder functions. It features a dual interface and is a convenient way for any programming or scripting language that supports OLE Automation, to invoke Total Recorder functionality to record streaming audio or sound input on any of your sound card's input jacks."
I'm fairly certain that if such an app were developed it could then be given away for free, i.e., no restrictions, even though the Total Recorder SDK itself is commercial software.
For anyone interested in simply seeing what they give you in the SDK and trying it out, note:
"Evaluation copies of Total Recorder Developer Edition are available for download with the following links. The evaluation copies are fully functional versions of the program, with the exception that an audible noise will be inserted about every 60 seconds throughout the recording. For unlimited recording without the insertion of an audible noise, you must purchase a Total Recorder license."
Pretty reasonable terms for an eval, just to see if anything might come of it. The license costs $99, and I'm sure any number of people here (myself included) would be happy to chip in should someone develop something workable with the eval copy.
If I knew more about Windows programming, I'd give it a try myself.
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