How-to setup Firefly on a Synology disk station (powerpc)

[sonichouse]

or you can type
(esc):68(return)
to take you to line 68
then
i#(esc):wq
to insert and save

[cstern]

or 68Gi#(esc)ZZ 🙂 🙂 🙂

vi is versatile… (awful editor btw, but that’s all you’ve got in the DS107e)

[Hilversum]

Good advice. Thanks! The Firefly server works now. (I am learning a lot these days.) I had some trouble accessing the pages behind port 3689, but after finding (and changing) the password in the config file I saw Firefly’s built-in web page.

But now Firefly seems to be not scanning my iTunes folder (which I copied from the Mac’s Music folder into the DS107e’s music folder). In “server status”, clicking both the “Start Scan” and “Start Full Scan” results in 0 songs.

Could I impose on your good nature for some helpful advice once more?

[sonichouse]

1. check that you typed in the folder name properly
2. check permissions on the folder – ensure the user running as mt-daapd has access.
3. check the log
4. is the database path correct

[Hilversum]

Checking the log gives me:
Nov 18 23:20:11 mt-daapd[734]: Config entry general/playlist is deprecated. Please review the sample config
Nov 18 23:20:11 mt-daapd[734]: Firefly Version svn-1696: Starting with debuglevel 2
Nov 18 23:20:11 mt-daapd[734]: Plugin loaded: daap/svn-1696
Nov 18 23:20:11 mt-daapd[734]: Plugin loaded: ssc-script/svn-1696
Nov 18 23:20:11 mt-daapd[734]: Plugin loaded: rsp/svn-1696
Nov 18 23:20:11 mt-daapd[734]: Starting rendezvous daemon
Nov 18 23:20:11 mt-daapd[734]: Starting signal handler
Nov 18 23:20:12 mt-daapd[736]: Initializing database
Nov 18 23:20:12 mt-daapd[736]: Full reload…
Nov 18 23:20:12 mt-daapd[736]: Starting mp3 scan
Nov 18 23:20:12 mt-daapd[736]: Starting playlist scan
Nov 18 23:20:12 mt-daapd[736]: Updating playlists
Nov 18 23:20:12 mt-daapd[736]: Error scanning MP3 files: No such file or directory
Nov 18 23:20:12 mt-daapd[736]: Scanned 0 songs in 0 seconds
Nov 18 23:20:12 mt-daapd[736]: Starting web server from /opt/share/mt-daapd/admin-root on port 3689
Nov 18 23:20:12 mt-daapd[736]: Registering rendezvous names
Nov 18 23:20:13 mt-daapd[736]: Serving 0 songs. Startup complete in 1 seconds

The error msg “Error scanning MP3 files: No such file or directory” indicates that something is wrong with the folder name. But it is there: the original iTunes folder placed in the “music” folder directly on the DS107e’s hard disk.

On the configuration web page, “Music Folder” says “/volume1/music”. I even added a second folder “/volume1/music/iTunes”. So you would think that everything should be OK.

How do I check permissions on the folder, or check if the database path is correct?

[sonichouse]

The folder names are case sensitive.

To find your music folder try

find / -iname music

[Hilversum]

This is the result:

find / -iname music
BusyBox v1.1.0 (2007.11.01-14:41+0000) multi-call binary

Usage: find [PATH…] [EXPRESSION]

I don’t know what it means.
(Time to go to bed! I look forward to continuing this conversation tomorrow. Thank you very much for your help so far.)

[Hilversum]

This is the result:

find / -iname music
BusyBox v1.1.0 (2007.11.01-14:41+0000) multi-call binary

Usage: find [PATH…] [EXPRESSION]

I don’t know what it means.
(Time to go to bed! I look forward to continuing this conversation tomorrow. Thank you very much for your help so far.)

[dkcahp]

This post has been a really big help. My Synology DS207 now communicates with my Pinnacle Soundbridge (aka Roku 1001?).

😀

I followed most of the how-to. I recommend using the efficient web interface to firefly to set it up (rather than the text editing). You will need the interface sooner or later.

For some reason the ui/pw of the mt-daapd web interface has to be digged out.

[cstern]

@dkcahp wrote:

This post has been a really big help. My Synology DS207 now communicates with my Pinnacle Soundbridge (aka Roku 1001?).

Yes, they are almost identical. Afaik, the only differences are the printing on the enclosure and a different firmware which makes the Pinnacle version unable to play protected iTunes music for licensing reasons (apparantly, Pinnacle didn’t want to pay the extra dollars to include this capability). It is not possible to flash the Pinnacle unit with the Roku firmware and vice-versa.

I followed most of the how-to. I recommend using the efficient web interface to firefly to set it up (rather than the text editing). You will need the interface sooner or later.

For some reason the ui/pw of the mt-daapd web interface has to be digged out.

Yes, good points. I have ammended the how-to with your suggestion and added a note about the password – thanks.

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