iTunes 10 breaks Firefly Media Server / mt-daapd

I was able to get forked-daapd working. Strange thing is in itunes the Artist column is showing the Composer tag. Has anyone else seen this?

I have run into this issue as well. I have installed forked-daapd under Crunchbang Linux as described in the previous links, but when I click on my daapd share in iTunes 10 I get the rotating barber pole and then spit back to my library; no information loads. I looked up the error in my forked-daapd log ("Failed to create service browser:Bad State"), and the solution is to supposedly downgrade libavahi-client3 to 0.6.26. However, I can't seem to find this version in any of the repositories.

Has anyone else run into this issue? If so, have any workarounds been found?

Thanks.

This really *****! I've been running Firelfly Media Server on both my NAS drives and my Linux server streaming to iTunes without any problems for a couple of years now... and now this!
I hope this was unintentionally but who knows, Apple have done illogical decisions in the past from a multi platform user's perspective. If this change was made intentionally I don't think we'll get a fix any time soon.

Just a couple a weeks ago I changed my server to a Windows 7 machine (had a couple of services that didn't perform well in a Linux environment). From what I've google'd the only DAAPD Windows server is the no longer developed Firefly Media Server, is this really true?

What are my options at the moment, without any iTunes 10 fix? Would it be possible to install the working (?) forked-daapd on my Windows machine through Cygwin or something similar?
I've considered installing iTunes on my Windows server and use iTunes' library share, but since I can't remotely manage the iTunes library and add new music simply by telling the server to rescan a given folder I see this option as my last resort...

I just discovered that Front Row seems to still be able to connect to my windows-based Firefly server (HP Mediasmart), even though iTunes 10 cannot.

I tried installing forked-daapd, but I only get an error when it attempts to start:

scan: Could not create eventfd: Invalid argument
main: File scanner thread failed to start

Any ideas?

I got the same message.
Yesterday, I upgrade my linux box from debian lenny to squeeze to trying to use forked-daapd.
When my linux kernel still was lenny, that happend. With squeeze kernel, forked-daapd worked fine.

How did you do that? Did you perform a dist-upgrade or something?

I used dist-upgrade. At first I didn't install linux-image-2.6-686 package, so dist-upgrade didn't upgrade my kernel.

my squeeze box:
ii linux-image-2.6-686 2.6.32+28 Linux 2.6 for modern PCs (meta-package)
ii linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 2.6.32-21 Linux 2.6.32 for modern PCs

Thanks, dist-upgrade worked 🙂

Hi,

Probably a question that shows how new i am to Ubuntu but I keep getting this error after running: sudo apt-get update

W: GPG error: http://ftp.de.debian.org sid Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 9AA38DCD55BE302B
W: GPG error: http://ftp.de.debian.org lenny Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 9AA38DCD55BE302B NO_PUBKEY 4D270D06F42584E6

I'm sure I can add those keys someplace. care to point me in the right direction.

Thank you,

Ian

ianthebarman,

You need to grab some keys from gpg.
Try the solution discussed here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=277436

Thank you, gonna see if I can make it work

I just realize that I have similar problem with my Drobo FS and iTunes 10. Workedd just fine before this upgrade.

I am the maintainer of dmapd, a server that supports DAAP. I found that my dmapd had the same problem as mt-daapd when it came to interoperability with iTunes 10. It seems that iTunes 10 requires aeMK/com.apple.itunes.mediakind included in the response to a "GET /databases/1/items." Ensuring that dmapd included this in its response fixed the server's ability to work with iTunes 10. As it has been pointed out, forked-daapd already does this. I suspect adding support for aeMK/com.apple.itunes.mediakind to mt-daapd would fix that server as well.

aeMK/com.apple.itunes.mediakind has been around for a few versions of iTunes. I suspect previous versions assumed a value of 1 (Music) when its value was missing from a response. iTunes 10 is more picky, which might actually turn out better for users once the servers are fixed.

And all the NAS with "iTunes support"? 😟