iTunes 10 breaks Firefly Media Server / mt-daapd

Follow these instructions to downgrade including a link to 9.2.1-

http://appletoolbox.com/2010/09/how-to-downgrade-itunes-10-to-itunes-9-2-1/

If you have Time Machine. Simply follow the removal instructions and then replace-
iTunes Library
iTunes Library Extras.itdb
iTunes Library Genius.itdb

Worked like a charm..

Hallelujah. Thank you!

All NAS will have the same problem as they all use the same mt-daapd software.

I think all supported nas will now use forked-daapd or an other compatible software version.

MaxTorm, This is Andrew the creator of VortexBox. Obviously this is a big problem for all VortexBox users. I rushed a version of forked-daapd into BETA this morning.

http://vortexbox.org/forum/beta/vortexbox-and-itunes-10/

Hopefully we can get this into production soon.

For anybody else that is interested in testing forked-daapd VortexBox is a Fedora based media server Linux distribution. You can download it and test if you want.

Same problem with LaCie Network Space drive.

For those on Ubuntu, try installing forked-daapd from debian's repo as in this post : http://tmoore.org/technology/mp3-library-serving-to-itunes-10-with-ubuntu/

ReadyNas Duo also broken

Same problem for all of us here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2564964&tstart=45

DNS 323 with firefly is broken and most NAS and music server.

same problem with Allnet 60200 NAS on Mac iTunes 10, additional problems on Windows iTunes 10: neither find my Apple Airport express nor the NAS

Similar situation with my Western Digital MyBook World, which runs Twonky, after upgrading to 10. ITunes shows an unnamed playlist in shared, which when clicked on loads the drive name and looks like it's tracking down files, but doesn't display any. Back to 9.2.1!

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I'm running firefly on windows, and i can see the log-

it appears that itunes 10 is trying to fetch metadata that was newly introduced with itunes 10. remember when you upgraded, and it said "updating library" ? i believe it was adding this metadata either to it's library or the individual files itself..

This is what loads when I try to connect to the firefly server via itunes 10:

2010-09-05 00:13:22 (34382f8f): Unknown meta code: daap.songalbumartist
2010-09-05 00:13:22 (34382f8f): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.has-videodaap.songcategory
2010-09-05 00:13:22 (34382f8f): Unknown meta code: daap.songextradata
2010-09-05 00:13:22 (34382f8f): Unknown meta code: daap.songcontentdescription
2010-09-05 00:13:22 (34382f8f): Unknown meta code: daap.songlongcontentdescription
2010-09-05 00:13:22 (34382f8f): Unknown meta code: daap.songkeywords
2010-09-05 00:13:22 (34382f8f): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.is-podcast
2010-09-05 00:13:22 (34382f8f): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.mediakind
2010-09-05 00:13:22 (34382f8f): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.extended-media-kind
2010-09-05 00:13:22 (34382f8f): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.series-name
2010-09-05 00:13:22 (34382f8f): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.network-name
2010-09-05 00:13:22 (34382f8f): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.episode-num-str
2010-09-05 00:13:22 (34382f8f): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.episode-sort
2010-09-05 00:13:22 (34382f8f): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.season-num
2010-09-05 00:13:22 (34382f8f): Unknown meta code: daap.songgapless
2010-09-05 00:13:22 (34382f8f): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.gapless-enc-del
2010-09-05 00:13:22 (34382f8f): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.gapless-heur
2010-09-05 00:13:22 (34382f8f): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.gapless-enc-dr
2010-09-05 00:13:22 (34382f8f): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.gapless-dur
2010-09-05 00:13:22 (34382f8f): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.gapless-resy
2010-09-05 00:13:22 (34382f8f): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.content-rating
2010-09-05 00:13:23 (34382f8f): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.is-podcast-playlist
2010-09-05 00:13:23 (34382f8f): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.special-playlist
2010-09-05 00:13:23 (34382f8f): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.saved-genius

Could someone compile the forked-daapd package for the dns323/ch3snas. That would help a lot of users, I think.

After many tries to get forged-daapd work this steps worked for me on my home server running ubuntu 9.10

1. add following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list
*deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid main*
*deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian lenny main*

2. (i got an error updating the apt-get sources because of less memory for package library)
so add following line to /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf
*APT::Cache-Limit 55165824;*

The value is just an example.. at least about double the preset value from the ubuntu system

3. update the apt-get sources
*sudo apt-get update*

4. install forked-daapd from the debian apt-get sources
*sudo apt-get install forked-daapd*

5. (Here a library was not in the correct version) -> update the libcrypt library
*sudo apt-get install libgcrypt11*

Finally this worked for me. Just start the forged-daapd server
*sudo /etc/init.d/forged-daapd start*

Hope this helps some of you


By the way... forged-daapd uses the same port as mt-daapd as default port. If you already have a old dappd version using the same port, you will only get the forged-daapd server listed in iTunes when the old daapd version is stopped or removed from the system.

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