I think I have it setup correctly, but…

[bbjonz]

Hi,

I think I have mt-daapd setup correctly but iTunes 7 can’t see the share. From what I’ve read, iTunes 7 might be the problem. If so, stop me here! If not, here’s my setup:

Server:

Ubuntu Server Dapper Drake
Most recent nightly build of mt-daapd (can see it and modify it in my browser. Says the server is running but that bonjour is not–I’ve read that this might be a bug. Configured correctly, as far as I know.)
Firestarter firewall disabled (for now)
Avahi daemon that seems to be running (might this conflict with pre-installed bonjour daemon?)

Client:

Powerbook G4 (10.4.8)
iTunes 7.0.2
Firewall disabled (for now)

Please let me know if I’ve missed anything here. Thanks in advance for any and all help.

Joe

[rpedde]

@bbjonz wrote:

Hi,

I think I have mt-daapd setup correctly but iTunes 7 can’t see the share. From what I’ve read, iTunes 7 might be the problem. If so, stop me here! If not, here’s my setup:

Server:

Ubuntu Server Dapper Drake
Most recent nightly build of mt-daapd (can see it and modify it in my browser. Says the server is running but that bonjour is not–I’ve read that this might be a bug. Configured correctly, as far as I know.)
Firestarter firewall disabled (for now)
Avahi daemon that seems to be running (might this conflict with pre-installed bonjour daemon?)

Client:

Powerbook G4 (10.4.8)
iTunes 7.0.2
Firewall disabled (for now)

Please let me know if I’ve missed anything here. Thanks in advance for any and all help.

Joe

You should be able to configure with –enable-avahi to get it working with avahi, that would be better than using the built-in one.

That should probably do it.

[bbjonz]

Thanks. I tried several different versions of installing with dpkg but none work with –enable-avahi. Could I trouble you for the complete installation statement?

BTW, that’s 10.4.8–don’t know that face got there…

Joe

[rpedde]

@bbjonz wrote:

Thanks. I tried several different versions of installing with dpkg but none work with –enable-avahi. Could I trouble you for the complete installation statement?

BTW, that’s 10.4.8–don’t know that face got there…

Joe

I don’t have binary packages for avahi and dapper. The packages that are installed with binaries are with the built-in mdns.

But we can still probably make it work.

one thing to check is that you didn’t upgrade from a 0.2.4 install to the nightlies. If so, you’ll need to fix your config file to make it pick up the output plugins.

If your /etc/mt-daapd.conf looks like this:

servername blah

mp3_dir /path/to/somewhere

Then you have the old config style. You should be able to convert that by doing this (as root):

mt-daapd -v /etc/mt-daapd.conf

That will convert your config from the old form to the new form. It will look something like this, then:

[general]

servername=blah

mp3_dir=/path/to/blah

Once it’s in a good form, then you can add a section that looks like this:

[plugins]

plugin_dir = /usr/share/mt-daapd/plugins

Or wherever your plugins are. Check that directory, and look for an “out-daap.so” or a “rsp.so”. Just throw that whole section label and parameter at the bottom of the file (unless it already exists there).

Then start the server. That’s one of the possible problems is that it isn’t loading the plugins, so it doesn’t bother advertising anything, since you don’t have a daap server or a rsp server running, so no point in advertising anything. :-/

If that doesn’t go, or if everything was already set up okay, then the problem must be the mdns stepping on each other.

You can change the startup script for mt-daapd to start with a “-m”, which turns off multcast. Then you can edit the avahi config file to advertise “_daap._tcp” on port 3689, and “_rsp._tcp” on port 3689 as well.

Then you should be able to see it.

I’m not sure how to manually advertise stuff with avahi, but I’m sure it’s possible.

— Ron

[bbjonz]

Thanks for taking the time to respond. It looks like I have the old config file with the new nightly build. I tried to create the new version with the command you provided, but I got “error writing file.” Permissions seem fine and I was the root at the time, so I don’t know what went wrong. The plugins are where you said they’d be. I guess it’s that config file holding me up.

Joe

[bbjonz]

I ran mt-daapd -f and got this:

Firefly Version svn-1489: Starting with debuglevel 2
Starting rendezvous daemon
Starting signal handler
Initializing database
Starting web server from /usr/share/mt-daapd/admin-root on port 3689
Listen port: Address already in use
Error staring web server: Address already in use
Aborting
Rendezvous socket closed (daap server crashed?) Aborting.
Aborting

Looks like another service has that port locked up. What could it be?

Joe

[bbjonz]

Thanks for your help. I had several mt-daapd processes running. Killed them all, restarted, and there it was. Absolutely beautiful!

Joe

[rpedde]

@bbjonz wrote:

Thanks for your help. I had several mt-daapd processes running. Killed them all, restarted, and there it was. Absolutely beautiful!

Joe

Whew. 🙂

Glad you got it going.

— Ron

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