firefly not visible on itunes

@max420 wrote:

Hi,
I am trying to set up a firefly using a debian lenny system. (i used the standard version using apt-get)
The set up was very easy and the server seems to be working well, at least the web server is up and serves my music.

The problem I have is that I cannot see the music as an itunes share.
Other itunes libraries that are share in our network are visible – so it shouldn’t be problem of the network, right?

Two things make me wonder if everything is set up right:
1. On the server status page it says “Bonjour stopped”
2. I get the follwoing warning during start-up:

Sep 23 18:46:44 jetson mt-daapd[2503]: Firefly Version svn-1586: Starting with debuglevel 9

Sep 23 18:46:44 jetson mt-daapd[2503]: Error loading plugin /usr/lib/mt-daapd/plugins/ssc-script.so: plugin declined to load

Sep 23 18:46:44 jetson mt-daapd[2503]: Plugin loaded: rsp/svn-1586

Sep 23 18:46:44 jetson mt-daapd[2503]: Plugin loaded: daap/svn-1586

Sep 23 18:46:44 jetson mt-daapd[2503]: Plugin loaded: ssc-ffmpeg/svn-1586

Sep 23 18:46:44 jetson mt-daapd[2503]: Starting rendezvous daemon

Sep 23 18:46:44 jetson mt-daapd[2504]: *** WARNING *** The program 'mt-daapd' uses the HOWL compatibility layer of Avahi.

Sep 23 18:46:44 jetson mt-daapd[2504]: *** WARNING *** Please fix your application to use the native API of Avahi!

Sep 23 18:46:44 jetson mt-daapd[2504]: *** WARNING *** For more information see 

Sep 23 18:46:44 jetson mt-daapd[2503]: Starting signal handler

Sep 23 18:46:44 jetson mt-daapd[2506]: Initializing database

Sep 23 18:46:45 jetson mt-daapd[2506]: Starting web server from /usr/share/mt-daapd/admin-root on port 3689

Sep 23 18:46:45 jetson mt-daapd[2506]: Registering rendezvous names

Sep 23 18:46:45 jetson mt-daapd[2506]: Serving 1916 songs.  Startup complete in 1 seconds

I really would appreciate if somebody could give me a hint were to search for this problem!

Thanks,
Max

It doesn’t look like it’s actually advertising via rendezvous. It registers the names, but never gets the callbacks that they have been registered.

I’ll submit a debian bug report to use –enable-avahi rather than –enable-howl.

Your only other option would be to recompile by hand using svn-1589 or so (http://nightlies.mt-daapd.org) and using –enable-avahi.

— Ron