This is really a tough one. 😕
Interesting. There is no known race condition with Sqlite3. Although debuglevel 9 puts a lot of stress to the db, maybe try again with loglevel 0 just for kicks.
I haven’t got the slightest clue who creates the socket. Could be server, or clientside. Shouldn’t be a permission issue, since firefly can open port 3689 alright. And banshee can browse alright so that’s not it.
Did you set up iptables or any other firewall appliances? Are you running SELinux?
Do you have enough free space left on your root fs?
Banshee cannot do transcoding stuff, and also not do playlists via DAAP.
But as long as you’re streaming mp3s you should be good.
About transcoding you mentioned earlier: FF is always “involved” but when you transcode, it invokes ffmpeg, or the ssc-scripts and streams a wav. So its all the same really. You could even transcode mp3 to wav, just for kicks.
😕