iTunes. NV+ V2 4bay's

Hi folks

I've been following this discussion with great interest (in particular because I have an NV+ v2 and a DUO with the same architecture I think).
I've used the add-on most kindly provided by mdgm to enable the mt-daapd setting in /etc/defaults/services and ssh'd into the box to check it for myself. After restarting the NV+ v2 there was no response to http://my.nas:3689 - so I did a bit of digging and enabled logging in /etc/mt-daapd.conf which shows the following error:

2013-10-28 21:52:56 (4035a000): Error opening db: No backend database support for type: sqlite

Is this part of the reason it's not showing anywhere? And if so what's a likely solution (if any).
I guess something SQL-y?

I'm looking around this site for guidance on sqlite, but am conscious that I don't want to break it whilst it has a couple TB of media!

[ the relevant part of /etc/mt-daapd.conf are (if not overridden elswhere)

#
# db_type (required)
#
# This is what kind of backend database to store the song
# info in. Valid choices are "sqlite" and "sqlite3".
#

db_type = sqlite

]

Jason

2013-10-28 21:52:56 (4035a000): Firefly Version svn-1676: Starting with debuglevel 2
2013-10-28 21:52:56 (4035a000): Plugin loaded: rsp/svn-1676
2013-10-28 21:52:56 (4035a000): Plugin loaded: ssc-script/svn-1676
2013-10-28 21:52:56 (4035a000): Plugin loaded: daap/svn-1676
2013-10-28 21:52:56 (4035a000): Starting rendezvous daemon
2013-10-28 21:52:56 (4035a000): Starting signal handler
2013-10-28 21:52:56 (4035a000): Error opening db: No backend database support for type: sqlite

What happens if you try sqlite3?

mdgm wrote:
What happens if you try sqlite3?

Oh yes. Now that'd work.

*blushes*

I'll have a fiddle with it to see if it actually serves content, but I get a config web page now!

Hurrah.

Thanks most kindly.


Jason

Months ago when I first enabled the iTunes server, the file /var/log/mt-daapd.log showed:

2013-03-02 19:31:27 (4035a000): Firefly Version svn-1676: Starting with debuglevel 2
2013-03-02 19:31:27 (4035a000): Plugin loaded: daap/svn-1676
2013-03-02 19:31:27 (4035a000): Plugin loaded: rsp/svn-1676
2013-03-02 19:31:27 (4035a000): Plugin loaded: ssc-script/svn-1676
2013-03-02 19:31:27 (4035a000): Starting rendezvous daemon
2013-03-02 19:31:27 (4035a000): Starting signal handler
2013-03-02 19:31:27 (4035a000): Initializing database
2013-03-02 19:31:27 (4035a000): Starting web server from /usr/share/mt-daapd/admin-root on port 3689
2013-03-02 19:31:27 (4035a000): Registering rendezvous names
2013-03-02 19:31:27 (4035a000): Serving 19 songs.  Startup complete in 0 seconds

Logging stopped back in June - but I don't exactly know why. It is possible that's when 5.3.8 installed?

2013-06-23 19:10:20 (4035a000): Scanned 25 songs (was 0) in 1 seconds
2013-06-23 19:22:49 (4035a000): Got shutdown signal.
2013-06-23 19:22:49 (4035a000): Stopping gracefully
2013-06-23 19:22:49 (4035a000): Stopping rendezvous daemon
2013-06-23 19:22:49 (4035a000): Closing database
2013-06-23 19:22:49 (4035a000): Done!

but now I get this error (same as Jason):

2013-10-30 01:25:35 (4035a000): Firefly Version svn-1676: Starting with debuglevel 2
2013-10-30 01:25:35 (4035a000): Plugin loaded: daap/svn-1676
2013-10-30 01:25:35 (4035a000): Plugin loaded: rsp/svn-1676
2013-10-30 01:25:35 (4035a000): Plugin loaded: ssc-script/svn-1676
2013-10-30 01:25:35 (4035a000): Starting rendezvous daemon
2013-10-30 01:25:35 (4035a000): Starting signal handler
2013-10-30 01:25:35 (4035a000): Error opening db: No backend database support for type: sqlite

How did the db type change?

Is it safe to simply change the db type to sqlite3, or best to do an OS reinstall (bit dramatic?)?

Just change the db type in the configuration file.

Updated etc->mt-daapd.conf database type to sqlite3. Error gone :).

Next wave of issues. The path to music is wrong, now corrected to something useful (/media/Music).

Firefly starts, config page says cannot change any settings due to access rights. Fixed by chmod'ing the config file to write by all. Now serving 28 songs from test directory.

It seems the config file was overwritten, it's all wrong. I'll check the other settings to what else I find.

Problem: not appearing in iTunes on PC (Firewall disabled). Any ideas?

In addition to iTunes not finding the server, I have this error in the log tail:

2013-10-30 12:52:55 (4035a000): Serving 28 songs.  Startup complete in 0 seconds
2013-10-30 13:25:26 (42bd2470): Thread 197: Entering ws_returnerror (401: Unauthorized)
2013-10-30 13:27:52 (423d2470): Cannot resolve /usr/share/mt-daapd/admin-root//favicon.ico
2013-10-30 13:27:52 (423d2470): Thread 209: Entering ws_returnerror (404: Not found)
2013-10-30 13:27:52 (423d2470): Cannot resolve /usr/share/mt-daapd/admin-root//favicon.ico
2013-10-30 13:27:52 (423d2470): Thread 210: Entering ws_returnerror (404: Not found)

A missing file.

Found that I had to change the config file: runas = nobody to runas = root.

Now I see it in iTunes on a PC. Finally (again) :)!

However, album art shows when playing a track, but not in the album selection view. Here's a section of the log:

2013-11-03 14:17:38 (423d2470): Unknown meta code: daap.songalbumartist
2013-11-03 14:17:38 (423d2470): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.has-videodaap.songcategory
2013-11-03 14:17:38 (423d2470): Unknown meta code: daap.songextradata
2013-11-03 14:17:38 (423d2470): Unknown meta code: daap.songcontentdescription
2013-11-03 14:17:38 (423d2470): Unknown meta code: daap.songlongcontentdescription
2013-11-03 14:17:38 (423d2470): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.is-podcast
2013-11-03 14:17:38 (423d2470): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.extended-media-kind
2013-11-03 14:17:38 (423d2470): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.series-name
2013-11-03 14:17:38 (423d2470): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.network-name
2013-11-03 14:17:38 (423d2470): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.episode-num-str
2013-11-03 14:17:38 (423d2470): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.episode-sort
2013-11-03 14:17:38 (423d2470): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.season-num
2013-11-03 14:17:38 (423d2470): Unknown meta code: daap.songgapless
2013-11-03 14:17:38 (423d2470): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.gapless-enc-del
2013-11-03 14:17:38 (423d2470): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.gapless-heur
2013-11-03 14:17:38 (423d2470): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.gapless-enc-dr
2013-11-03 14:17:38 (423d2470): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.gapless-dur
2013-11-03 14:17:38 (423d2470): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.gapless-resy
2013-11-03 14:17:38 (423d2470): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.content-rating
2013-11-03 14:17:38 (423d2470): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.is-podcast-playlist
2013-11-03 14:17:38 (423d2470): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.special-playlist
2013-11-03 14:17:38 (423d2470): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.saved-genius
2013-11-03 14:17:59 (42bd2470): Session 0: Streaming file 'test track.m4a' to 192.168.1.83 (offset 0)

Is it possible to see the album art in the browsing view?

Hi,
I read this thread carefully, installed the add-on as advised, rebooted my NAS (I have a ReadyNAS NV+ v2) and then tried to go to the URL of the IP address of the NAS on port 3689 but my browser tells me it can't connect to the server so I guess the iTune service is not running.
Any idea what I can try?
A few comments in this thread mention unix paths like "/etc/" or "/user/" but when I browse my NAS, I don't see such root folders (but "admin", "backup", "c", "home",...) and can't find configure files mentioned....

Thx in advance for your help

What version of firmware do you have installed on your NV+ v2? I believe a 5.3.8 upgrade broke my installation requiring manually logging in to the box via SSH to a Linux command prompt and editing the configuration files manually.

The folders like /etc are Linux directories internal to the NAS operation (well any Linux installation) and are not the same as "shares" that you see when browsing from Windows.