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Please port forked-daapd to ReadyNAS to replace Firefly
Currently like all other NAS boxes, the ReadyNAs uses the obsolete Firefly (aka. mt-daapd) code. This still works (just) as a very basic music sharing server to iTunes clients, but does not support ne...
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This is really the key. This libc issue has shown up in a number of other places as well. For example, the most up to date version of utorrent server also needs it. I don't understand all of the issues exactly related to libc, but it sounds like its a kernal level issue which requires the firmware to be updated. But I do think that if the kernal were updated somehow to support this, lik dsm said, other users could contribute a lot more easily.
By the way, someone mentioned the QNAP has had this libc issue in the past as well. I do see that the QNAP seems to have a lot more addons ported to it. Does anyone know how they dealt with the libc issue over there or why they have so many more addons ported?
Myself, I tried the itunes server on my readyNAS and basically it would not airplay to AppleTV and would not stream to my iphone's normal media player either. Honestly I don't even see the point of firefly unless you have a household full of people that play all their music through their itunes client on their computers and you want one central server for it. Maybe in college dorms. Firefly works for that. But that's about it. Most of the stuff people want to do is playing their itunes library through other devices like AppleTV, iphones, ipads, Roku, etc...none of which firefly helps with.
dsm1212 wrote: Another approach though would be to focus on the user mode stuff like libc that the community can't update. If you get those up to date then many addons like this one will be easy for the user community to do on our own.
This is really the key. This libc issue has shown up in a number of other places as well. For example, the most up to date version of utorrent server also needs it. I don't understand all of the issues exactly related to libc, but it sounds like its a kernal level issue which requires the firmware to be updated. But I do think that if the kernal were updated somehow to support this, lik dsm said, other users could contribute a lot more easily.
By the way, someone mentioned the QNAP has had this libc issue in the past as well. I do see that the QNAP seems to have a lot more addons ported to it. Does anyone know how they dealt with the libc issue over there or why they have so many more addons ported?
Myself, I tried the itunes server on my readyNAS and basically it would not airplay to AppleTV and would not stream to my iphone's normal media player either. Honestly I don't even see the point of firefly unless you have a household full of people that play all their music through their itunes client on their computers and you want one central server for it. Maybe in college dorms. Firefly works for that. But that's about it. Most of the stuff people want to do is playing their itunes library through other devices like AppleTV, iphones, ipads, Roku, etc...none of which firefly helps with.
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