Recently I have spent some time on the side helping out the XBMC team. It all started a long time ago when I ported Rhapsody to the XBox. I always wanted to add visualizations to it (because I love that sh**t). I managed to add the publicly available goom viz plugin but was very disappointed with it. I then decided to go another route and look at integrating Rhapsody in XBMC (since it had so many cool features including viz plugins support).

While I knew it would be completely illegal, I still decided to start working on it. My grand plan was to use the new Rhapsody feature: UPnP. So I decided to write my own UPnP library. First called SNDK, then Pluto and now Platinum, it took me more than 3 years to get it to where it is now. A few months ago, I decided to integrate it in XBMC. I went on IRC, started talking to some people (Spiff!). Next thing I know, I am part of the team! Well I hope I didn’t disappoint. It took some serious thinking/hacking to get UPnP working on the XBox (it doesn’t support Multicast so it’s kinda tough) but it’s working! XBMC v2 is around the corner and it rocks with UPnP. I think people digg it.