Well now that v0.3.0.0 is out, here’s what is in the pipeline:

- Improve Http server with a threadpool to throttle number of connections that can be handled in parallel. Without it, this is becoming a big problem since I only support HTTP 1.0 right now.

- Fix the crash I am seeing on my home machine which I believe is due to a corrupted version of .NET 2003 (How could this happen!!).

- Add Search support to MediaServer (possibly integrate sqlite and start building a small local database).

- Better support for MediaServer update/eventing.

- Make MediaServer visible/accessible to the XBox 360 (almost there already but I need the Search support otherwise it’s a hack).

If time permits:

- Add transcoding capabilities to MediaCrawler.

- Look into DLNA + UPnP v2 specs.

Today I published the latest and greatest of the Platinum SDK. Among a bunch of fixes and improvements, the main cool new thing is full support for Mac OSX (and Linux obviously) thanks to the little Mac mini I bought K. a couple years ago. So the SDK is now available for Windows, Linux, Mac OSX, XBox, PSP. I am also working on some linux-based embedded platforms (gp2x, chumby, …).
Here’s the changelog I put together:

Platinum 0.3.0.0
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Fixes/Changes:
- Added MacOSX support.
- Fixed socket abortion problem on Linux (using a pipe).
- Complete rewrite to use threads instead of interrupt driven round-robin. The benefit is that throughput is now greatly improved (for streaming especially).
- Addded a new App: MediaCrawler
- Split up AV MediaServer code. Now the FileMediaServer is one implementation of the AV MediaServer. More to follow.
- Added README, CHANGELOG, LICENSE files

Known issues:
- AV MediaServer Search not implemented yet.
- Http server does not use a thread pool. This can be a problem with hungry ControlPoints like the Intel Tools AV MediaController.

So a few weeks ago, I was at a conference in San Diego and I met my old buddy T. We both used to be in our own little band playing our favorite instrument, secretly hoping to become the next guitar hero (like every teenage boy does after listening to Jimi Hendrix for the first time). Anyways, talking with him about music and reminescing about the good times, when the only thing we had to worry about at the time was doing our homework and whether or not we would ever get to kiss a girl, ever (thus the guitar hero dream ’cause we knew they were getting some at least) made me want to play again … a lot. Ok I may not have become a guitar hero but I got to kiss a few girls, but still I want to play again .. a lot.

Too bad thierry is not in the bay area anymore, we could start our own little band and go back in time like nothing had happened (you know, the hair loss and all). In the meantime, he mentioned some really cool new music apps to check out like AmpliTube. I digg it a lot. Sounds almost as good as my POD. I am going to check out Guitar Rig too. For electronic music, there’s always a Reason.