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I like how android gives me the option to play a youtube video on either my device, or send to xbmc.

What would be great is if through the android file manager, I can choose to play the mp3s that are on my phone on xbmc.

i guess the simple way would be to have a simple http listener run on the android phone, a secure url generated and send that to xbmc

taking this a step further, when you select "play on xbmc", instead of using configured hosts, that it could do a broadcast on the wifi lan to discover xbmc machines.

I have got this working but not in a very tightly integrated way, it requires a third party android webserver.

first: install kws webserver available from the google play store.
open the app and set your home directory to your sd card
enable directory listing
start the server, it will tell you what ip it is listening on.

Browse to the site locally on your phone and you will get a list of directories / files
click the mp3 you want to play and you will be prompted if you want to play it on your xbmc

it works.

Could you just use a player that supports Airplay (eg. Doubletwist) and then use that feature to play to your xbmc installation?

Doubletwist supports Airplay (8-5-2011) http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/08/doubl...-apple-an/

Info on Airplay in XBMC on the wiki: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=AirPlay