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Funny that this old thread of mine should pop up today... I have been working on this goal all weekend, and have finally made some progress.

Not on the N900, unfortunately: we never got anywhere AFAIK, and my own device doesn't work any more (dead digitizer)...

So I switched to a Raspberry Pi, which is a lot better documented and more open. It's also going to be a lot bigger, yes, but at least it works without black magic.

I'm using just ALSA for sound, MOC for the player engine, and Python for the custom mobile interface and handling the peripherals.

Right now I have MOC playing music from the Pi to my desktop USB DAC, displaying info on an external LCD, and taking basic orders from the first button I've rigged up (I'm waiting for extra wires and connectors, so I have to make do with recycled bits 'n pieces in the meantime :-)

You can see a video of the prototype in action here :
http://vimeo.com/user3067652/dapi

Not bad for two day's hacking, compared to two years of nothing happening here :-)
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