DACP: iTunes remote control

Ask Bjorn Hansen: iTunes remote control

back to our regular geek'o'rama: Paul Mison noticed that iTunes 4.7 is advertising a _dacp._tcp service. It looks like they are preparing to support a remote control type thing. Ed Despard is guessing it's a "digital audio control protocol.". (This is from the daap-dev mailinglist, which doesn't have a proper archive -- daap-dev-subscribe at develooper.com to subscribe)

iTunes 4.7 seems to advertise new service called DACP, which might be digital audio control protocol. The service accepts connection on the same port with DAAP, 3689. There's a thread in daap-dev mailing list about hacking this new protocol, but as of this moment no one has been successful in hacking it to control iTunes remotely.