XBMC

[rpedde]

@ajayre wrote:

Nope – waiting for a response from Ron…

Andy

Sorry… I played with it some… by using a pared down library. With a small enough library, it seems to work. But it looks like at some point I add a song with something missing that xbmc expects and everything craps out.

I haven’t figured exactly what it is, and I probably won’t for a while… I’m grinding out bugs for release as fast as I can already.

You can help by parsing your library down to something small, then adding stuff maybe an album at a time until it doesn’t work.

See if you can find a single song that makes it not work. If you can do that, I can probably find out what the story is.

— Ron

[morglum]

I’ll look into this when I get back home. Thanks for the hint.

[Anonymous]

I emailed Ron a single MP3 and a songs.db for that MP3 that doesn’t work. I hope it helps.

Thanks!!

Andy

[morglum]

Just bumping this one up.

I was wondering about something. There’s only 2 of us having issues with XBMC. IS it because there’s only 2 of us trying, or is it working for everyone else?

Anyway, I’ve been trying the hardest I could, even with 1 song databases, and XBMC (late june) never lists any songs, either in the library or the playlists.

Should I send in a song.db too?

BTW, I tried serving my songs from my pc running itunes to my xbox and it works, so it truly is a mt-daapd issue.

Actually, I’ll try and install the windows version and see if it works.

Oh, and thanks again for this fantastic little proggie 🙂
Simon

[barnseyboy]

i have just start experiencing this today.

upto yesterday i was using the mt-daapd_0.2.4-1_arm.deb version of mt-daapd on my nslu2 using the songs.gdb file and my XMBC (latest ver released mid 2006) could see all my playlists and within each playlist could see all the tunes. it was marginally faster at showing lists than SMB, and my family liked using this mecahnism cos of the playlists rather than our rather long folder listing via SMB

i updated to latest nightly mt-daapd-svn-1376.tar.gz with sqlite today and now in XMBC i can see the playlists and library entry, but they are all empty.

im guessing this is bug is still open, does someone want a copy of my songs.db file to help debug it? is there anything else i could do to assist? i’d obviously really love to get this feature back!

thanks in advance

db

in case its useful info here is a chunk of the debug output from when xbmc is requesting to view the playlists from firefly

Request: GET /databases/1/containers/6/items?session-id=1&revision-number=2 HTTP/1.1

Thread 34: Read: Host: 192.168.0.3

Thread 34: Adding header *Host=192.168.0.3*

Added *Host=192.168.0.3*

Thread 34: Read: Client-DAAP-Version: 3.0

Thread 34: Adding header *Client-DAAP-Version=3.0*

Added *Client-DAAP-Version=3.0*

Thread 34: Read: User-Agent: iTunes/4.6 (Windows; N)

Thread 34: Adding header *User-Agent=iTunes/4.6 (Windows; N)*

Added *User-Agent=iTunes/4.6 (Windows; N)*

Thread 34: Read: Accept-Language: en-us, en;q=5.0

Thread 34: Adding header *Accept-Language=en-us, en;q=5.0*

Added *Accept-Language=en-us, en;q=5.0*

Thread 34: Read: Client-DAAP-Access-Index: 2

Thread 34: Adding header *Client-DAAP-Access-Index=2*

Added *Client-DAAP-Access-Index=2*

Thread 34: Read: Client-DAAP-Validation: 88C11DDA990CDE79B813855DFD41A186

Thread 34: Adding header *Client-DAAP-Validation=88C11DDA990CDE79B813855DFD41A186*

Added *Client-DAAP-Validation=88C11DDA990CDE79B813855DFD41A186*

Thread 34: Read:

Thread 34: Headers parsed!

Checking to see if connection matches close

Nope!

Thread 34: Connection type HTTP/1.1

: Connection: persist

Thread 34: parsing GET args

Thread 34: Entering ws_getgetvars (session-id=1&revision-number=2)

Thread 34: Adding arg session-id = 1

Added *session-id=1*

Thread 34: Adding arg revision-number = 2

Added *revision-number=2*

Thread 34: Done parsing GET/POST args!

Thread 34: Original URI: /databases/1/containers/6/items

Thread 34: Translated URI: /databases/1/containers/6/items

Thread 34: Preparing to find handler

Thread 34: URI Match!

Thread 34: Time is 1159310635 seconds after epoch

Thread 34: Setting time header

Added *Date=Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:43:55 GMT*

Thread 34: Using non-default handler

Added *Accept-Ranges=bytes*

Added *DAAP-Server=mt-daapd/svn-1376*

Added *Content-Type=application/x-dmap-tagged*

Added *Cache-Control=no-cache*

Added *Expires=-1*

Executing: select type,query from playlists where id=6

Returning token 2003

Entering sp_parse_phrase

Entering sp_parse_oexpr

Entering sp_parse_aexpr

Entering sp_parse_expr

Entering sp_parse_criterion

Entering sp_parse_string_criterion

Returning token 0010

Returning token 2001

Returning token 00fd

Exiting sp_parse_string_criterion (success)

Exiting sp_parse_criterion (success)

Exiting sp_parse_expr (success)

Exiting sp_parse_aexpr (success)

Exiting sp_parse_oexpr (success)

Exiting sp_parse_phrase (success)

Fetching sql statement size

Size: 22

Serialized to : (genre like '%jazz%')

No query/filter

Executing: select * from songs  where ((genre like '%jazz%'))

Enumerating size

Executing: select * from songs  where ((genre like '%jazz%'))

Got size: 5210

Item enum:  got 81 songs, dmap size: 5210

Added *Content-Length=5271*

Emitting reponse header Content-Length: 5271

Emitting reponse header Expires: -1

Emitting reponse header Cache-Control: no-cache

Emitting reponse header Content-Type: application/x-dmap-tagged

Emitting reponse header DAAP-Server: mt-daapd/svn-1376

Emitting reponse header Accept-Ranges: bytes

Emitting reponse header Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:43:55 GMT

Done enumerating.

Entering config_set_status

Exiting config_set_status

Thread 34: Terminating

Thread 34: Freeing request headers

Thread 34: Freeing response headers

Thread 34: Freeing request vars

Thread 34: got request

[Anonymous]

If I were you I would give up on this and set up playlists in XBMC instead. It would be nice to have a single set of playlists and song management using FireFly but….

I would look at the code myself but I just don’t have the time. 🙁

Andy

[barnseyboy]

rugh – how defeatist. it used to work! must mean its easy to revert a fix then 😉

[Anonymous]

You say defeatist, I say realist. 😉

Ron is overwhelmed and the deal with Roku means the focus is on the soundbridges. The only solution is if someone who can debug and fix the problem has the time and inclination. I have the inclination but not the time.

Andy

[rpedde]

@ajayre wrote:

You say defeatist, I say realist. 😉

There is some truth to this.

Ron is overwhelmed and the deal with Roku means the focus is on the soundbridges.

That’s only sort of true… the other piece of it is scratching an itch, and while I wouldn’t mind taking a swing at this, I have bigger itches. :/

All that said, I did get as far as setting my xbox back up, and this past weekend I got a replacement cdrom so it doesn’t xmastree on boot anymore, so I actually have a working xbmc box again.

Maybe we’ll race to see who gets the free time first.

It will be you in the short term, as the iTunes 7 thing has absolutely flattened me. I don’t get much done past forums and email every night, as it’s taking me hours every night to do just that.

Plus, my tree is in disarray because I had the daap stuff half factored out into a module when iTunes released. :/ So yeah, right now I am kinda whacked.

[rpedde]

@ajayre wrote:

The only solution is if someone who can debug and fix the problem has the time and inclination.

But in retrospect, I didn’t remember it was you that was looking for the xbmc stuff. Insofar as I owe you one (at least!) for the help you’ve given me on the forums lately, I’ll move this up my priority list. So let me fire up my xbox and get started…

— Ron

[Anonymous]

Not that I want XBMC support to go back down in priority, I think you might have me confused with someone else. I haven’t posted on here for a while because my copy of FireFly has been humming along without problems. 😀

Andy

[rpedde]

@ajayre wrote:

Not that I want XBMC support to go back down in priority, I think you might have me confused with someone else. I haven’t posted on here for a while because my copy of FireFly has been humming along without problems. 😀

Andy

ha! you are right — I was thinking of andyg. Oh well.. I already have my xbox booted up. 🙂

[barnseyboy]

happy to help if theres anything i can do on the testing side – i have debianslug nslu2/latest xbmc etc

regards

[eddieb]

@morglum wrote:

I was wondering about something. There’s only 2 of us having issues with XBMC. IS it because there’s only 2 of us trying, or is it working for everyone else?

No ! I am also still having the same problems .. Even in XBMC2 .. I can see mt-daap, I can see all the playlists I created (and the work in iTunes). BUT, all is empty, no songs to see, nothing to listen too.
I am running svn-1372 on both YDL4 and OSX server 10.4.8 (both PPC)

[barnseyboy]

rpedde: i have been diggin through the xbmc code to see if i could spot why mt-daapd playlists have stopped working.

the body of the xbmc mt-daapd code is located in XBMCdocslibXDAAPlibXDAAP.c

the method Priv_DAAP_ClientHost_GetDatabaseItems is the routine for getting the details of individual items. in the code are a few ‘telling’ comments about support for mt-daapd including which xml nodes tend not to be populated by mt-daapd.

i went through all the items returned by mt-daapd and found that sometimes it doesnt return xml nodes for things which i guess are empty id3 tags.

e.g. one of the more empty items i could find in my music library..

- 

112

1077

mp3

04-re-akshon_(remix).mp3

44100

3237049

225044

so my hypothesis (without being able to step through the xbmc code atm) is that its borking on some of the missing tags.

can you remember if the old (working) code for mt-daapd with xbmc saent back empty tags? is adding in empty tags for some of the key elements something you would consider? do you consider this a bug with xmbc not mt-daapd?

ive included the fragment from the xbmc code here, as you see the comments seem to indicate that certain values it expects mt-daapd not to provide have been commented out, but other items which mt-daapd does not always provide are left in.

for (i = 0; i < items.returnedcount; i++)

{

dmapGenericContainer *item = &(items.listitems);

DMAP_INT32 buf32;

/*DMAP_INT16 buf16;

DMAP_INT8 buf8;*/

DMAP_STRING buf;



if (dmapGeneric_LookupContainerItem_INT32(item, dmap_l("itemid"), &buf32) !=

DMAP_DATATYPE_INT32)

continue;



if (dmapGeneric_LookupContainerItem_STRING(item, dmap_l("itemname"), &buf) !=

DMAP_DATATYPE_STRING)

continue;

sizereq += strlen(buf) + 1;



if (dmapGeneric_LookupContainerItem_STRING(item, daap_l("songalbum"), &buf) ==

DMAP_DATATYPE_STRING)

sizereq += strlen(buf) + 1;



if (dmapGeneric_LookupContainerItem_STRING(item, daap_l("songartist"), &buf) ==

DMAP_DATATYPE_STRING)

sizereq += strlen(buf) + 1;



/*

* OPTIONAL - had to comment this out because mt-daapd doesn't provide all of these

* all of the time.

*

if (dmapGeneric_LookupContainerItem_INT16(item, daap_l("songbeatsperminute"), &buf16) !=

DMAP_DATATYPE_INT16)

continue;



if (dmapGeneric_LookupContainerItem_INT16(item, daap_l("songbitrate"), &buf16) !=

DMAP_DATATYPE_INT16)

continue;



if (dmapGeneric_LookupContainerItem_INT16(item, daap_l("songdisccount"), &buf16) !=

DMAP_DATATYPE_INT16)

continue;



if (dmapGeneric_LookupContainerItem_INT16(item, daap_l("songdiscnumber"), &buf16) !=

DMAP_DATATYPE_INT16)

continue;

*/



if (dmapGeneric_LookupContainerItem_STRING(item, daap_l("songgenre"), &buf) ==

DMAP_DATATYPE_STRING)

sizereq += strlen(buf) + 1;



if (dmapGeneric_LookupContainerItem_INT32(item, daap_l("songsamplerate"), &buf32) !=

DMAP_DATATYPE_INT32)

continue;



if (dmapGeneric_LookupContainerItem_INT32(item, daap_l("songsize"), &buf32) !=

DMAP_DATATYPE_INT32)

continue;



if (dmapGeneric_LookupContainerItem_INT32(item, daap_l("songtime"), &buf32) !=

DMAP_DATATYPE_INT32)

continue;



/* optional, see above re mt-daapd

if (dmapGeneric_LookupContainerItem_INT16(item, daap_l("songtrackcount"), &buf16) !=

DMAP_DATATYPE_INT16)

continue;



if (dmapGeneric_LookupContainerItem_INT16(item, daap_l("songtracknumber"), &buf16) !=

DMAP_DATATYPE_INT16)

continue;



if (dmapGeneric_LookupContainerItem_INT8(item, daap_l("songuserrating"), &buf8) !=

DMAP_DATATYPE_INT8)

continue;



if (dmapGeneric_LookupContainerItem_INT16(item, daap_l("songyear"), &buf16) !=

DMAP_DATATYPE_INT16)

continue;

*/



if (dmapGeneric_LookupContainerItem_STRING(item, daap_l("songformat"), &buf) !=

DMAP_DATATYPE_STRING)

continue;

sizereq += strlen(buf) + 1;

}

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