iTunes Music Sharing Client Works

Monday, July 10. 2006

iTunes Music Sharing Client Works

The title pretty much says it. You can now stream from local subnet iTunes, Banshee, mt-daapd/Firefly hosts.

Assuming you have Zeroconf set up - I will be adding a "add host" button for users with KDE 3.3 and I suspect the great majority of users who don't have Zeroconf set up at all. At least under Linux, Zeroconf is an ironic name as I actually had to edit some /etc files to get it to work. However to be frank, I'm sure most of our users know what a hostname and an ip address is; shouldn't be too painful to suggest they add hosts manually until Zeroconf configuration difficulties get ironed out. Hopefully the distros work it out, as I bet some of them already are.

Currently its kind of hidden, you have to go to Amarok Configuration and add a "DAAP" media device. And then click "connect" in the media device tab. Assuming you have Zeroconf setup, you should see any local DAAP (aka Music Sharing) servers. I hope to integrate it into the collection browser in the near-future.

In a nifty example of code re-use, the Ruby proxy written for Last.fm doubles as the proxy for DAAP. Last.fm needed a proxy to take out the "sync" commands; DAAP needs a proxy due to silly post-4.5 iTunes requiring DRM-like hashes to be part of the HTTP GET command.

Posted by Ian Monroe in eean at 22:36 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

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Hi Ian!
First thank you for making DAAP-integration for Amarok.

Now my problem: How do I install this feature. I downloaded the SVN source and followed the instructions for compiling/installing it. So far everything's fine, but there is no "DAAP" media device in my media device configuration.

Do I have to set any special configure flags or do I have to get additional source code from somewhere else?

I checked that I actually started the SVN-version by opening the "About Amarok" window.

Thank you for your effort and pointing me in the right direction.

Stefan

#1 Stefan on 2006-07-11 10:41 (Reply)

You have to run 'kbuildsycoca' before new plugins are picked up by Amarok. This should happen automatically when logging in.

#2 Anonymous on 2006-07-11 10:50 (Reply)

this did activate the plugin for me. thank you!

#2.1 Stefan on 2006-07-11 13:24 (Reply)

Worked like a charm. Are you going to make it so that Amarok can have more than one Media Device option so that you can move songs from the DAAP server to an iPod? This doesn't seem to work at this point, and would be a Very Cool Feature in my book.

#3 Chris on 2006-07-24 20:07 (Reply)

Hi,
This great, now I can share music using amarok under Ubuntu. I only have a small issue: once a track is played, amarok doesn't automatically pass to the next track in my playlist (it does when the tracks are local), so I have to hit Windows+B each time a song is played. Any idea how to solve this?
Thanks!!!
Vincent

#4 Vincent on 2006-08-09 05:26 (Reply)

I'm having the same issue...the strange part is, that Amarok knows how long the song is (it displays the correct track length in the listing), but once it gets to the end of the song, the progress slider just sits at the end, showing 0:00 remaining, but still "playing" (ie, it still says "Playing: blah blah) on the left side of the status bar).

#4.1 Anonymous on 2007-01-12 14:16 (Reply)

Hey,
I've got Zeroconf working and now Amarok can see my iTunes (7) shared music, but when I try and connect to it, Amarok says "connection refused" immediately. I don't see any errors being printed to stdout.. Any pointers / tips?

Thanks!
-Josh

#5 Joshua Szmajda (Homepage) on 2006-12-12 22:16 (Reply)

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