Mt-daapd, NSLU2 and Unicode

[nivlacckw]

Hi,

This might be a little bit off topic, however I wonder if there are users in here having the similar issue.

I have been using firefly/mt-daapd on NSLU2 with unslug 6.8 for quite a while. It has been my show stopper to move my itune library with unicode filenames from my Windows PC to the NSLU2.

I can only be able to use Unicode filenames in the Samba – but not in the telnet/ssh session. Whenever a double byte file is copied to NSLU2, the filename is changed to weird characters when viewing from telnet/ssh session.

My current workaround for this is to copy the media files from my ipod to the nslu2 via Samba. Since the filename has been changed to a more “friendly” style for NSLU2. It works fine, however this seems to be duplicated effort.

itune library on PC->sync to iPOD->copy to NSLU2.

May I know if it is possible to enable Unicode support in the NSLU2? So that I can change the itune library locatiion

itune library on NSLU2 ->sync to iPOD

[fizze]

unicode?

well, you just need to load the appropriate kernel-module.

the filenames itself dont really matter.
I can just recommend that you use a tool like mp3tag to adjust your filenames. but that probably messes up the iTunes XML / LIB.

I dont use iTunes for that, so *shrug* 🙄

[nivlacckw]

@fizze wrote:

unicode?

well, you just need to load the appropriate kernel-module.

the filenames itself dont really matter.
I can just recommend that you use a tool like mp3tag to adjust your filenames. but that probably messes up the iTunes XML / LIB.

I dont use iTunes for that, so *shrug* 🙄

I have no idea about the kernel-module 😳

Is that available via ipkg? I was wondering if this is different among various NSLU2 OS -(Unslug/SlugOS/DebianSlug)

Thanks

[fizze]

http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Unslung/UnslungLanguageSupport
has everything you need. 🙂

[nivlacckw]

@fizze wrote:

http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Unslung/UnslungLanguageSupport
has everything you need. 🙂

Thanks. It seems that the instructions applies for cp850 only. Should I look for UTF-8 kernel module instead?

[nivlacckw]

@nivlacckw wrote:

@fizze wrote:

http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Unslung/UnslungLanguageSupport
has everything you need. 🙂

Thanks. It seems that the instructions applies for cp850 only. Should I look for UTF-8 kernel module instead?

Moved to DebianSlug and got UTF-8 enabled. Thanks.

[fizze]

sweet. is debianslug any hard to install?
Or do you see any major performance/stability etc. improvements?

I’ve always vowed to move to Debian, as soon as I get a few days off…

[nivlacckw]

@fizze wrote:

sweet. is debianslug any hard to install?
Or do you see any major performance/stability etc. improvements?

I’ve always vowed to move to Debian, as soon as I get a few days off…

The new debianslug is very stright forward, complete instructions are below. Should be the 2nd easiest – 1st go to Unslung of course.

http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/

The only issue with this version is little-endian mode. Not sure if the current nighties of the debian arm package works or not.

I am so happy that all UTF-8 locale is installed by default. It took me about 10mins to get all my works done after the Debian installation – enable UTF-8 support in the terminal and Samba , plus getting the mt-daapd package installed via apt-get. 😀

Traditional Chinese and Japanese files are now storing properly in unicode within the slug. I could never get this done on Unslung 6.8.

[rpedde]

@nivlacckw wrote:

@fizze wrote:

sweet. is debianslug any hard to install?
Or do you see any major performance/stability etc. improvements?

I’ve always vowed to move to Debian, as soon as I get a few days off…

The new debianslug is very stright forward, complete instructions are below. Should be the 2nd easiest – 1st go to Unslung of course.

http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/

The only issue with this version is little-endian mode. Not sure if the current nighties of the debian arm package works or not.

I am so happy that all UTF-8 locale is installed by default. It took me about 10mins to get all my works done after the Debian installation – enable UTF-8 support in the terminal and Samba , plus getting the mt-daapd package installed via apt-get. 😀

Traditional Chinese and Japanese files are now storing properly in unicode within the slug. I could never get this done on Unslung 6.8.

I’m running debonaras (armeb debian), and that’s the packages I have. But the other-endian version is officially supported by debian, so there are real official debian packages in etch right now, so those are always available.

Might have to get me *another* slug for little-endian debian. :0 My wife will love that.

— Ron

[fizze]

yeah, I am thinking of that too.
I just got me a pinnacle showcenter 200 and currently stream it off the same nslu as mt-daapd and other stuff.
Swisscenter is a no-no, but there are other progz floating around.
Anyhow, I think unslung 6.8 has extremeley poor file-I/O performance, as I get less than 1MByte / sec via FTP and a bit less still via SMB transfer. Writing to the Slug, that is.

It is enough for streaming HD content, though. Barely.

Ron what do you get with your debonaras?

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