mp3 scan failing

[zk4life]

After a night of searching and finding nothing that could help me, I reach out to the experts.

I run into a problem with the mp3 scanning when I try to start mt-daapd. This is my output:

# mt-daapd -f



Starting with debuglevel 2

Starting rendezvous daemon

*** WARNING *** The programme 'mt-daapd' uses the HOWL compatiblity layer of Avahi.

*** WARNING *** Please fix your application to use the native API of Avahi!

*** WARNING *** For more information see 

Starting signal handler

Signal handler started

Initializing database

Full reload...

Starting mp3 scan

Cannot open /home/media/A & E Dept. - The Rabbit's Name Was.mp3

Skipping /home/media/A & E Dept. - The Rabbit's Name Was.mp3 - scan failed

Cannot open /home/media/01 Tereza My Love.mp3

Skipping /home/media/01 Tereza My Love.mp3 - scan failed

Starting playlist scan

Scanned 0 songs in 0 seconds

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

root@OptiPlex:~# Rendezvous socket closed (daap server crashed?)  Aborting.

Aborting

I can view the DAAP server via another computer, but, obviously, there are no songs in it.

I use Ubuntu Feisty and have full ability to play mp3s in rhythmbox if these relate (gstreamer0.8-plugins).

Anybody have an idea what the problem is?

[fizze]

are you sure your avahi-daemon is running?
The port is already in use, so maybe you are restarting an instance of mt-daapd, or have other DAAP servers running (banshee, rhythmbox?)

Other than that, mt-daapd runs as nobody/nobody. So make sure that user has read access to the mp3 files, and read & execute to the directory tree beneath your music_dir 😉

[zk4life]

YES! Rhythmbox was running daap. This has fixed my problem! Thank you very much. I have turned it off, and life is good.

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