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Aspirant

Mar 19, 2013

forked-daapd on ReadyNAS ARM

The default daap server (mt-daapd) doesn't support iOS, airplay etc. so I looked into some alternatives. I installed and configured forked-daapd (from apt) on my NV+ v2. It scanned my files fine and it shows up in iTunes (11) but when I try to load the music by clicking on the remote share it constantly displays a spinner icon and fails to load. The log file (debug level) shows the following:

daap: DAAP request: /server-info
daap: DAAP request: /login

and has nothing after that. I did a bit of a google and it looks like it expects a query string to be sent along with the /login request but iTunes 11 doesn't send that. Anyone figure out a solution for this?

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tarkeen
Aspirant
Mar 24, 2013
mertician wrote:
Is there source code for the version of forked-daapd that's on the apt repo?

Do no look like it. Do you make email ask NetGear? http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detai ... rogrammers
mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Mar 24, 2013
Tarkeen while this should show up in the GPL for ReadyNAS OS once released you should note that there are sources available for packages found in the ReadyNAS OS apt-get repository.

First on a ReadyNAS OS system you need to enable SSH if you haven't already and SSH in as 'root'

Then edit your /etc/apt/sources.list (e.g. using 'vi' i.e. # vi /etc/apt/sources.list) to look something like this:

deb http://apt.readynas.com/packages/readynasos 6.0.1 updates apps main

deb-src http://apt.readynas.com/packages/readynasos 6.0.1 updates apps main

deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian wheezy main

Then do

# apt-get update && apt-get install dpkg-dev

Then

# apt-get source forked-daapd --download-only

The source will be downloaded to the current working directory.

You should see three files:

forked-daapd_0.19ntgr-1.debian.tar.gz
forked-daapd_0.19ntgr-1.dsc
forked-daapd_0.19ntgr.orig.tar.xz

Note that installing dpkg-dev requires installing a lot of stuff so you might not wish to do this on a production system