iTunes doesn’t see library

[fizze]

Ok, disregard that Bonjour warning. Thats always there on windows.

Ok, so wired – ubuntu serves up to wireless laptops running XP. Right.
Ok, so firefly is working. I presume that the DAAP plugin is loaded?

Firefly can be set up to use avahi, or its built-in mDNS responder. For the latter case, it wont work when Avahi-daemon is running.

You can try and run avahi in a shell manually and see what pops up.
You should definetely see Firefly.
try something along the lines of:

avahi-browse --all

In a shell.
Give it a few seconds though, just to be sure.

[Anonymous]

Ok, so wired – ubuntu serves up to wireless laptops running XP. Right.

Yes thats correct

Ok, so firefly is working. I presume that the DAAP plugin is loaded?

Yes it is

You can try and run avahi in a shell manually and see what pops up.
You should definetely see Firefly.

It never showed anything at all running.

[fizze]

Ok, so either your firewall blocks everything 😀 or – more likely – avahi and mDNS and zeroconf are all at war 😉

Then I guess you should check out firefly’s log file.
Right after being started, it states various avahi, or mDNS specific stuff.

Also try raising the debuglevel to 5, or 9 before (re-)starting firefly.

Also, what source did you install from, and which package?

[jor]

I am not sure how much my problem is related, but maybe it may resemble the original posters problem.
Most part of today I was unsuccesfull in connecting to my (wired) firefly server, then I gave up and went from my (wireless) laptop to my (wired) PC. I started up Itunes and there my Firefly server was, like there is no problem at all.

So after a quick examination I found out that all my wired pc’s can see each other’s shared itunes libraries, and all my wireless pc’s can also see each others shared itunes libraries. But the wired pc’s can’t see the wireless pc’s libraries and vice versa.

So this must be a network error, nothing wrong with firefly. But I’m clueless were to start and I was hoping someone here could give me a few hints?

[fizze]

The culprit is most likely your wireless router or access point.
There is an option to filter out multicast from wireless to wired interfaces, or enable wireless-wired bridging mode.

[Anonymous]

Here is the FireFly log with the debuglevel set to 5:

2008-03-05 10:51:27 (b744c6c0): Firefly Version svn-1586: Starting with debuglevel 5
2008-03-05 10:51:27 (b744c6c0): Loaded plugin /usr/lib/mt-daapd/plugins/ssc-ffmpeg.so (ssc-ffmpeg/svn-1586)
2008-03-05 10:51:27 (b744c6c0): Loaded plugin /usr/lib/mt-daapd/plugins/out-daap.so (daap/svn-1586)
2008-03-05 10:51:27 (b744c6c0): Loaded plugin /usr/lib/mt-daapd/plugins/rsp.so (rsp/svn-1586)
2008-03-05 10:51:27 (b744c6c0): No ssc program specified for script transcoder.
2008-03-05 10:51:27 (b744c6c0): Error loading plugin /usr/lib/mt-daapd/plugins/ssc-script.so: plugin declined to load
2008-03-05 10:51:27 (b744c6c0): Plugin loaded: rsp/svn-1586
2008-03-05 10:51:27 (b744c6c0): Plugin loaded: daap/svn-1586
2008-03-05 10:51:27 (b744c6c0): Plugin loaded: ssc-ffmpeg/svn-1586
2008-03-05 10:51:27 (b744c6c0): Starting rendezvous daemon
2008-03-05 10:51:27 (b744c6c0): Starting signal handler
2008-03-05 10:51:27 (b744c6c0): Initializing database
2008-03-05 10:51:28 (b744c6c0): Starting web server from /usr/share/mt-daapd/admin-root on port 3689
2008-03-05 10:51:28 (b744c6c0): Listening on port 3689
2008-03-05 10:51:28 (b744c6c0): Starting server thread
2008-03-05 10:51:28 (b744c6c0): Registering rendezvous names
2008-03-05 10:51:28 (b744c6c0): Serving 1547 songs. Startup complete in 1 seconds

Also, what source did you install from, and which package?

I installed the mt-daapd package from Ubuntu’s universe repository. Here is what I used to get started if it helps. http://www.ubuntugeek.com/howto-setup-itunes-compatible-media-server-in-ubuntu.html

[Anonymous]

I just tried the suggestions here http://jamiedumbill.com/index.php?page=28 but still no luck.

[sonichouse]

@Paul41 wrote:

I just tried the suggestions here http://jamiedumbill.com/index.php?page=28 but still no luck.

God loves a trier 😉

How about if you try

http://localhost:3689/rsp/info

from your Ububtu box ?

do you see anything like

00031551.0svn-1696slug Music

and then from your other machine

http://192.168.1.102:3689/rsp/info

?

[fizze]

That all seems about right.
Very weird indeed. Can you do a:

ps aux|grep avahi

?

I guess something’s wrong with your avahi, maybe you have two instances running, or some other zeroconf daemon. 🙄

[Anonymous]

OK i have it working now. It turns out that there was a conflict with the mDNS responders. I started mt-daapd with the -m switch to disable the internal mDNS daemon and avahi-browse –all started showing FireFly.

I also had to add the following file to /etc/avahi/services

Daap



_daap._tcp

3689

After doing this FireFly started showing up in iTunes. Thanks for the help with getting this fixed!

[Author]

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