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e4effect Author

Level 1

7 points

iTunes 10.5 does not load shared library files

Since today's update to iTunes 10.5 from 10.4.1. iTunes can no longer access the shared music library I have on my iomega NAS disk. It sees the disk and lists it as a shared library, but when I click on the library it goes into an endless loading cycle. In the past it might take a minute or so to load the library, but since the update, iTunes never actually does load it.

There is no error message, not even an operation time-out. I can't see anything rrelevant in the console. It just goes on for ever trying to load the shared library.

It was loading the shsred library just fine until this evening when the update downloaded.

Any ideas?

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), iTunes 10.5

Posted on Oct 11, 2011 9:56 PM

239 replies

Oct 31, 2011 1:41 PM in response to thomasfromrotterdam

Thanks, thomasfromrotterdam, for that very helpful compilation procedure. Couldn't have done without it. Now it works for me.

One thing: I think you mean "debuild -us -uc" there, then you don't need the gpg key thing.

Oct 31, 2011 4:37 PM in response to chmfromgraz

Thx. I have corrected it.

Oct 31, 2011 4:41 PM in response to thomasfromrotterdam

One correction for https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3372281?answerId=16577371022#16577371022

So you shouldn't need to do step 5 with the following command:

$ dch -i "Fix for iTunes 10"

$ debuild -us -uc

Oct 31, 2011 4:47 PM in response to thomasfromrotterdam

While it's merely cosmetic, you may want to use "Fix for iTunes 10.5" instead for the changelog entry so that it's clear this is a different patch from the one last September made for iTunes 10.

Nov 5, 2011 10:07 AM in response to e4effect

Windows 7

Western Digital Live TV Hub 1 Tb Drive

iTunes 10.5

I recently bought a WDTV live hub, which I wanted to use as an iTunes server. It wirelessly links to the Home Network with a D-Link nano USB dongle. The devices is visible in iTunes, but clicking on it just gives a 'loading' dialogue box and nothing more happens.

Is this the same issue being experience by everyone else on here, and is there a PC patch or something I can do to get this working?

Thanks

lupunus

Level 4

1,000 points

Nov 5, 2011 10:42 AM in response to zlightbulb80

zlightbulb80 wrote:

Windows 7

Western Digital Live TV Hub 1 Tb Drive

iTunes 10.5

Eventually check here --> http://community.wdc.com/t5/WD-TV-and-Home-Entertainment/ct-p/wdtv_home_entertai nment

Nov 6, 2011 2:29 PM in response to e4effect

Same problem for the DLink DNS-323. Click on the Shared Library representing the iTunes server on the DNS-323, then iTunes spends a minute loading the library, flashes the list of songs in the library, and then automatically switches back to the local Music library.

Don't upgrade to iTunes 10.5!

You can see a similar discussion on http://forums.dlink.com/ if you search on "iTunes server not loading".

I've submitted the issue to Apple, but not heard back. I think I'll try to downgrade iTunes to 10.4.

Nov 7, 2011 2:14 PM in response to e4effect

I opened up a ticket with D-LINK and here was their response:

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You are correct. The DNS-323 support up to iTunes 9. Apple as changed the implementation of the itunes server in 10 so that the DNS-323 would require and update to the current itunes server. I have no update at this time regarding plans to update the DNS-323 iTunes to support further versions of iTunes.

Should you require further assistance with your D-Link products, please reply to this message, or call toll free at 877-453-5465.

Thank you for networking with D-Link.

Sincerely,

Eric F

D-Link Technical Support

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So at least D-LINK recognizes this as a problem on their end. Whether they are going to fix it or not is another story

Nov 7, 2011 5:03 PM in response to johanfrombelgium

Hi,

I've just posted a similar post as I didn't spot this one until I posted my one. Anyway, I agree with another user which states that it is not a readynas problem but more likely to be an iTunes problem as it works perfectly with iTunes 10.5 on my MacBook pro, but it fails to work with either of my windows laptops.

Thanks.

Nov 8, 2011 6:36 AM in response to e4effect

Same problem here with Lacie Network Space 2TB. Just uninstalled itunes 10.5 and installed 10.4 and now it works again.. Problem is that 10.4 won't see my Iphone on IOS5 😟 So this is also not really a solution.

Hope apple will fix this soon.

Nov 8, 2011 10:55 AM in response to e4effect

Anyone know how to fix this from the original mt-daapd source, not a ported version? (mt-daapd-0.2.4.2.tar.gz)

Nov 8, 2011 10:59 AM in response to unixsystem

If you are on Ubuntu or Debian you could follow these steps:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3372281?answerId=16577371022#16577371022

Nov 8, 2011 12:14 PM in response to e4effect

I'm on neither, it's for plugbox linux, so I need to patch it from the original source.

Nov 8, 2011 12:26 PM in response to thomasfromrotterdam

The only thing I can suggest is to download the patch for Ubuntu/Debian and compare the source code with the original code http://www.zero-factorial.com/coding/21_itunes10.5.dpatch

Nov 8, 2011 12:29 PM in response to unixsystem

i looked at that, the problem is the file doesnt exist in the source for this patch.

/src/plugins/out-daap.c

iTunes 10.5 does not load shared library files