mt-daap + howl on NetBSD-current

[KlinT]

Hi All,

Well, I’m trying to setup mt-daapd under netbsd 3.99.18 ( -current ) and I experience some problems making it working …

I’d just like to know if somebody successfully make mt-daapd running under NetBSD ?

In my case, I suspect a mDNSResponder/Howl configuration issue but this is later question 😀

Juste for information,
SERVER: NetBSD 3.99.18 :
– howl 1.0.0 installed from pkgsrc
– mt-daapd 2.0.4 installed from tarball
CLIENTS :
– MacOSX 10.4.7/iTunes 4.0.6
– WinXP SP2/iTunes 4.0.6

Right now I can access the “mt-daapd admin page” from my browser
But, Status page reports “RendezVous | Stopped”
clic on “Start mDNS Server” has no effects 🙁
And howl is running …

So, If you success in setting up mt-daapd under NetBSD … I’d be happy to have some info or feedback to be able to continue my setup 😀

Many thanks

Arnaud.

[rpedde]

@KlinT wrote:

Hi All,

Well, I’m trying to setup mt-daapd under netbsd 3.99.18 ( -current ) and I experience some problems making it working …

I’d just like to know if somebody successfully make mt-daapd running under NetBSD ?

In my case, I suspect a mDNSResponder/Howl configuration issue but this is later question 😀

Juste for information,
SERVER: NetBSD 3.99.18 :
– howl 1.0.0 installed from pkgsrc
– mt-daapd 2.0.4 installed from tarball
CLIENTS :
– MacOSX 10.4.7/iTunes 4.0.6
– WinXP SP2/iTunes 4.0.6

Right now I can access the “mt-daapd admin page” from my browser
But, Status page reports “RendezVous | Stopped”
clic on “Start mDNS Server” has no effects 🙁
And howl is running …

So, If you success in setting up mt-daapd under NetBSD … I’d be happy to have some info or feedback to be able to continue my setup 😀

Many thanks

Arnaud.

i think it *is* working. The “stopped” thing is inaccurate, i believe.

Does it show up in iTunes?

[KlinT]

Hi,

Nothing shown in iTunes … 🙁

I’ll continue reading the documentation and making some tests …
I’ve noticed that *it* should work 😀 So I’ll find the solution …

Best Regards,

Arnaud.

[rpedde]

@KlinT wrote:

Hi,

Nothing shown in iTunes … 🙁

I’ll continue reading the documentation and making some tests …
I’ve noticed that *it* should work 😀 So I’ll find the solution …

Best Regards,

Arnaud.

One way to troubleshoot might be to set up howl to advertise _daap._tcp manually. If you do that, it should pop up in iTunes, even if you dont’ have an iTunes server (or mt-daapd) running. Then you know the mdns part is working.

Until that works, mt-daapd won’t work either (as far as showing up in iTunes).

Might be worth checking to see if you have a firewall set up — mdns uses multicast, so sometimes even if you think you firewall is permissive, sometimes you miss the 224.0.0.251 address, which is the address mdns uses.

Good luck.

[KlinT]

Ok, thanks for these info, I’ll check my firewall logs for such ip 😀

I think my problem is with howl/mDns …

Let me see, I’ll post the results of my tests …

Many Thanks,

Arnaud.

[Kimmo]

I was having problems with the built-in mDNS registration: I could see traffic between the mt-daapd server (NetBSD) and the client (Mac Mini) on the daap port but the shared music would not show up in iTunes on the Mac.

The traffic I saw was over IPv6, so it could be some sort of an issue with multiple IP addresses. I have a couple of IPv4 addresses on the server as well as an IPv6 address.

I had used howl and daapd before (but daapd is not stable, and does not work with Front Row), so I decided to try howl with mt-daapd. Works just fine for me. The traffic is all IPv4, so I might be just reaping the benefits of a bug or “feature” of howl not supporting IPv6…

I installed net/howl from pkgsrc and added a couple of lines to the Makefile of mt-daapd from pkgsrc-wip.

After GNU_CONFIGURE=yes I added these lines:

CONFIGURE_ARGS+=–enable-howl
CONFIGURE_ARGS+=–with-howl-includes=${LOCALBASE}/include/howl

The second line is a bit hackish, but it works…

Before the include statement for ../../mk/pthread.buildlink3.mk I added this line:

.include “../../net/howl/buildlink3.mk”

Builds and works fine. I’m not using the -m switch to mt-daapd and the status page reports Rendezvous as Running.

[KlinT]

Hi,

Thanks for these informations …

I’ll try this as soon as possible & post the result 😀

Actually, I’m upgrading my NetBSD/System … And I’m also Bulk Compile PKGSRC This takes some times …

I plan to test this next week.

Many thanks again

Best Regards

Arnaud.

[KlinT]

Hi,

Well it works fine now …

I can see my server entry in iTunes after activated the “Search Share Music” parameter …

I’m now working on the playlist configuration …

Thanks for all these informations that help me … 😀

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