Front Row: This song cannot be played.

[hsorbo]

Front Row is giving me this error “This song cannot be played.” on every song on a daap-share accessing it via Artist / Album. When acessing the same songs via Playlists the songs play just fine. Within iTunes all songs also play just fine. Furthermore it’s the same behavious on both my macs.

Am I the only one having this issue?
I’m using the latest svn-snapshot.

– Håvard[/code]

[rpedde]

@hsorbo wrote:

Front Row is giving me this error “This song cannot be played.” on every song on a daap-share accessing it via Artist / Album. When acessing the same songs via Playlists the songs play just fine. Within iTunes all songs also play just fine. Furthermore it’s the same behavious on both my macs.

Am I the only one having this issue?
I’m using the latest svn-snapshot.

– Håvard[/code]

Nope, there is some breakage with FronRow. Not sure why, exactly, as it works fine with iTunes and FrontRow appears to drive iTunes, so I’m not sure why it doesn’t work. :/

[risimmonsuk]

Just got myself a mac mini and discovered this issue when playing with front row. Don’t suppose there’s been any progress on this – I’m running a nightly build around 1313 (I forget exactly which one) on a buffalo linkstation. Is upgrading to a later nightly likely to make any difference here?

iTunes 7 can get the music fine and frontrow then displays the correct thing in the now playing screen. but navigating to a song directly in front row always fails.

Not too worried by this as the mac mini is supposed to be a web/database server machine rather than a music player, but would be nice if it did work.

[rpedde]

@risimmonsuk wrote:

Just got myself a mac mini and discovered this issue when playing with front row. Don’t suppose there’s been any progress on this – I’m running a nightly build around 1313 (I forget exactly which one) on a buffalo linkstation. Is upgrading to a later nightly likely to make any difference here?

iTunes 7 can get the music fine and frontrow then displays the correct thing in the now playing screen. but navigating to a song directly in front row always fails.

Not too worried by this as the mac mini is supposed to be a web/database server machine rather than a music player, but would be nice if it did work.

Yes. And I want to get it working before iTV ships, as I imagine it will be similarly broken. So no, no progress, but yes, I want to make some.

— Ron

[hsorbo]

Front Row/mt-daapd works with iTunes 7.1 (59).
The one just released. *HAPPY*

[rpedde]

@hsorbo wrote:

Front Row/mt-daapd works with iTunes 7.1 (59).
The one just released. *HAPPY*

heh. 🙂

[hsorbo]

Not with songs transcoded to wav though. I would love to se the ability to transcode to mp3 (or aac or alac). Wav is so heavy on the internet connection.

[risimmonsuk]

@hsorbo wrote:

Front Row/mt-daapd works with iTunes 7.1 (59).
The one just released. *HAPPY*

Cool – will try updating iTunes 🙂

[rpedde]

@risimmonsuk wrote:

@hsorbo wrote:

Front Row/mt-daapd works with iTunes 7.1 (59).
The one just released. *HAPPY*

Cool – will try updating iTunes 🙂

Wonder when the heck apple started *increasing* interoperability. Seems like they’ve thus far gone out of their way to *break* stuff from other people. This is a pleasant surprise. 🙂

— Ron

[risimmonsuk]

@rpedde wrote:

@risimmonsuk wrote:

@hsorbo wrote:

Front Row/mt-daapd works with iTunes 7.1 (59).
The one just released. *HAPPY*

Cool – will try updating iTunes 🙂

Wonder when the heck apple started *increasing* interoperability. Seems like they’ve thus far gone out of their way to *break* stuff from other people. This is a pleasant surprise. 🙂

— Ron

Indeed – seems to work very nicely now. Maybe it wasn’t working with iTunes servers correctly either?

Now all I need is an iPhoto server for my NAS and I’ll be sorted 🙂

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