Trouble with iTunes Playlists

[mrbredon]

Hello,

i have some trouble with my firefly server running on a NSLU2.
This is my Setup:
1. desktop PC with Windows, on drive F:my_music all the mp3s and also itunes running
2. NSLU2 with unslung and firefly running
3. A 320GB Maxtor ontouch III with a copy of above mentioned mp3s

The firefly runs on the NSLU2 and serves the mp3s from the maxtor drive.
Access from Soundbridge is fine, no trouble.

Then I copied my itunes .xml file onto the NSLU2, because I have some playlits I want to use.
The Soundbridge finds the Playlists, but they are empty. I am sure this is because of the path setup within the .xml file.
The path to the songs is something like file://localhost/F/my_music.
On the NSLU2 the mp3s are stored in the folder mp3. Windows can find them under Severname/Disk 2/mp3.

Now my question: How do I have to set the path within the xml file ?
Any Idea ?

Thanks a lot !
Axel ❓

[rpedde]

@mrbredon wrote:

Hello,

i have some trouble with my firefly server running on a NSLU2.
This is my Setup:
1. desktop PC with Windows, on drive F:my_music all the mp3s and also itunes running
2. NSLU2 with unslung and firefly running
3. A 320GB Maxtor ontouch III with a copy of above mentioned mp3s

The firefly runs on the NSLU2 and serves the mp3s from the maxtor drive.
Access from Soundbridge is fine, no trouble.

Then I copied my itunes .xml file onto the NSLU2, because I have some playlits I want to use.
The Soundbridge finds the Playlists, but they are empty. I am sure this is because of the path setup within the .xml file.
The path to the songs is something like file://localhost/F/my_music.
On the NSLU2 the mp3s are stored in the folder mp3. Windows can find them under Severname/Disk 2/mp3.

Now my question: How do I have to set the path within the xml file ?
Any Idea ?

Thanks a lot !
Axel ❓

So you copied the whole directory try from f:my_music to \serverdisk 2mp3?

Is there a “my_music” directory under mp3?

If so, you should be able to drop the xml file there.

[mrbredon]

So you copied the whole directory try from f:my_music to \serverdisk 2mp3?

Is there a “my_music” directory under mp3?

If so, you should be able to drop the xml file there.

Yes, thats what I did.
I did this for several reasons:
– to have a backup of the mp3s
– to run the firefly on the NSLU2 without the PC running
– I use the PC as “master” and update th NSLU2 regularly

Actually there is No my_music forlder, but I will try that out !

Thanks
Axel

[rpedde]

@mrbredon wrote:

So you copied the whole directory try from f:my_music to \serverdisk 2mp3?

Is there a “my_music” directory under mp3?

If so, you should be able to drop the xml file there.

Yes, thats what I did.
I did this for several reasons:
– to have a backup of the mp3s
– to run the firefly on the NSLU2 without the PC running
– I use the PC as “master” and update th NSLU2 regularly

Actually there is No my_music forlder, but I will try that out !

Thanks
Axel

So the contents of “my_music” got dropped into the mp3 folder?

If so, put the xml file right in the mp3 folder and see what that does.

— Ron

[mrbredon]

No, it didn’t work !
I tried /mp3/xxx.xml and
/mp3/My_Music/xxx.xml

If I connect to the NSLU2 via telnet find the mp3 folder in /public/mp3 so I tried this as well.
Did’nt work !

I think I have to change the .xml file, which would be easy with a text editor, if I only knew which path to write in !

[Anonymous]

I have a similar issue. I also copy all the datea from the PC to the NSL. When I create a playlist in itunes and copy the xml to the mp3 folder on the NSL some files are visible in the playlist while others don’t.

Any idea?
Andreas

EDIT: It looks like my problem was the UFT character issue similar to:

http://forums.rokulabs.com/viewtopic.php?p=75095&sid=573fac7caeda1c2ad94fe127502961db

[rpedde]

@amichelf wrote:

I have a similar issue. I also copy all the datea from the PC to the NSL. When I create a playlist in itunes and copy the xml to the mp3 folder on the NSL some files are visible in the playlist while others don’t.

Any idea?
Andreas

EDIT: It looks like my problem was the UFT character issue similar to:

http://forums.rokulabs.com/viewtopic.php?p=75095&sid=573fac7caeda1c2ad94fe127502961db

The iTunes xml file is encoded in utf-8 already, so it’s not the playlist. It is completely possible that the filenames on-disk *aren’t* utf-8, the only way to fix that would be perhaps to iconv the .xml file from utf-8 to whatever your local codepage is, or whatever codepage the on-disk filenames are.

Much easier to fix your samba from the get-go to save filenames in utf-8 *before* you copy your music over, but once it’s there you can probably use a tool like:

http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/utf8-migration-tool

or something else to move your filenames from codepage to utf-8.

In either case, to help either of you, I need your songs.db (or songs3.db, whichever) and a copy of your iTunes Music Library.xml to help debug it.

You can zip and email them to [email protected]

— Ron

[Anonymous]

I simply installed SAMBA 3 on my slug and recopied all data to it and now all is well 🙂

Thanks for your help!
andreas

[mrbredon]

Thanks in advance !
But I must wait until Tuesday, because I’m not at home these days !

Axel

[rpedde]

@mrbredon wrote:

Thanks in advance !
But I must wait until Tuesday, because I’m not at home these days !

Axel

Also, in retrospect, check the web config and make sure you have the “process playlists” set to yes, as well as “process iTunes”.

— Ron

[Author]

Posts