DAAP Media Player released on Windows Phone!

Today marks the general availability of the first version of DAAP Media Player for Windows Phone! As some of you may know, DAAP, digital audio access protocol, is a protocol initially developed by Apple for sharing audio across computers through iTunes. A while ago, my brother and I released an Android implementation of the DAAP protocol, but now is the time for Windows Phone. As with all platforms, it pays to have the implementation be a native application that takes full advantage of the platforms features.

We have taken the opportunity to do some optimizations that we have been wanting to do to the Android application but did not do initially. First and foremost, songs are cached in a local database after initially being fetched. This is opposite to Android where all songs are downloaded every time the application is launched. This can be a major benefit for libraries with a large amount of songs. Also, the Windows Phone platform has a great mechanism for playing songs independently of the application. This means that you can do any other tasks while listening to your music with no interruptions. You can change songs, play/pause, etc. from the volume button just as if DAAP Media Player was your local media application (even from the lock screen!).




The pricing is roughly $2 with a trial ad-supported version supported. You can find the application in the store by searching DAAP or installing from the Windows Phone Store website: DAAP Media Player.