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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

Nov 8, 2011 12:56 PM in response to unixsystem

That source is even older than what's sitting in the ancient SVN, unfortunately. From the looks of it, the plugin code this patch touches was in src/daap.c back then, however this older version still had the msup tag enabled. Are you sure this is the version your plugbox is using? If so, what problems are you experiencing which led you to try this solution?

Nov 8, 2011 1:08 PM in response to Deledrius

yeah, its using mt-daapd 0.2.4.2-6

When I go to itunes, it has the server listed; I click on it, it flashes the music files for a second then jumps to my music library. So it actually won't let me play any music from the server.

Nov 8, 2011 1:31 PM in response to unixsystem

That sounds more like the error from last year's iTunes 10 update breakage when missing the mediakind tag. The behaviour I've seen from the iTunes 10.5 update against the svn-1696 of mt-daapd is that iTunes simply spins indefinitely, never loading anything at all. As far as I know, one of the post-iTunes-10 versions from Apple did fix this issue, but since I've also been using a patched mt-daapd I won't have noticed if Apple introduced a regression.

Nov 8, 2011 2:05 PM in response to unixsystem

Hi,

I get roughly the same problem as unixsystem. I click on my shared library (iTunes Server) and while it hangs for a second or 2 saying "Loading", it then jumps back to the "main/local" library.

Also while this thread maybe very useful to people who know about unix/ubuntu/etc... as there seems to be plenty of useful suggestions and people who seems to know what they are talking about, I'ts not much use to the many people that don't have a clue about these and writing script is obviously not an option, so I'm still hoping that Apple will somehow provide a fix in their next release.

Enough people seems to have reported the issue, so I hope it will be given the appropriate priority. Touch wood!!

Nov 8, 2011 2:23 PM in response to e4effect

Same here.

Apple, please fix this quickly.

Thx

Nov 11, 2011 3:31 AM in response to e4effect

Can someone please help. My Itunes 10.5 could not load in MyBookLive shared Music so I uninstalled 10.5 and installed 10.4 as was suggested. Now Itunes does not even show the MyBookLive folder. How do I get the folder back into Itunes?

lupunus

Level 4

1,000 points

Nov 11, 2011 5:55 AM in response to affiatati7

affiatati7 wrote:

Can someone please help. My Itunes 10.5 could not load in MyBookLive shared Music so I uninstalled 10.5 and installed 10.4 as was suggested. Now Itunes does not even show the MyBookLive folder. How do I get the folder back into Itunes?

Eventually check here -> http://community.wdc.com/t5/My-Book-Live/bd-p/mb_live

Nov 11, 2011 6:28 PM in response to e4effect

Same here with a WD (Western Digital) MyBook NAS - shows up in iTunes under "Shared" but won't load.

All firmware/software on NAS and on MacBook Pro are up to date. The NAS is essentially bricked.

Tony O.

Level 1

8 points

Nov 13, 2011 5:53 AM in response to e4effect

I have a Synology DS207+ NAS. This functionality worked fine for me until I upgraded to iTunes 10.5.0.142. Now it doesn't work on Windows 7 64 bit but still works when using Windows XP and OSX Tiger. Synology's solution is to upgrade to their latest version of their Disk Station Manager software but I don't think that my device is upgradeable to that version. I'm hoping that Apple will fix this problem with the next releasea of iTunes.

emanuil

Level 1

0 points

Nov 14, 2011 4:52 AM in response to e4effect

I have the same problem - running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit/ iTunes version 10.5.0.142 and device is Buffalo LinkStation LS-XHL (2.0TB), updated to the latest firmware.

Buffalo do not seem to have released an update in response to the problem...

Does anyone know of an update coming up? Is there any other solution for Windows?

Thanks in advance.

Aegypti

Level 1

0 points

Nov 14, 2011 11:39 AM in response to Clive Webber1

Just got a new release for iTunes 10.5.1 Beta 3, this problem has been solved.

duceduc

Level 1

5 points

Nov 14, 2011 12:07 PM in response to Aegypti

Care to share your link to this beta version of itunes? Thank.

Brahm

Level 1

8 points

Nov 14, 2011 12:08 PM in response to Aegypti

I can confirm the problem no longer exists between iTunes 10.5.1 (Mac) and my Buffalo Linkstation LS-WTGL/R1-V3 NAS.

The update hasn't hit Software Update yet, but the non-beta version of 10.5.1 can be found on the iTunes download page: http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

Nov 14, 2011 12:46 PM in response to Brahm

...good for you. no change here after updating... using Buffalo LS Pro Duo 4TB... latest firmware 1.54. wheel keeps on spinning...:-(((

NAS is fully accessible in finder.

any good ideas out there?

duceduc

Level 1

5 points

Nov 14, 2011 12:51 PM in response to Brahm

Ditto. Not working for me either.

iTunes 10.5 does not load shared library files