Yet another Firefly Server iTunes 10.5+ issue

Just to clarify - you don't have iTunes running on the iPad. I think you must mean the music and videos players at the bottom?

If so, they will not connect to firefly. Apple wrote them to require "home sharing" - and intentionally crippled 3rd party servers like Firefly in the process (because they did not publish how to implement home sharing in non-apple servers).

Is there anyway then I can get my iTunes from iPad to look at the nas drive to grab the music in I've copied from CDs all these years?

Again, there is no iTunes on your iPad... Really. iTunes is a program that can run on your mac or pc - nowhere else. Calling the music player, video player, or the apple store app on the ipad "iTunes" just creates confusion.

I know of only two ways to get your music on the NAS to play on the iPad.

(a) You can run iTunes on a Mac or PC (adding the music on the NAS to the iTunes music library, but leaving the music itself on the NAS). Enable home sharing on that iTunes, and also enable home sharing on the iPad. While iTunes is running on the PC, you can access your music library (and any videos) from the built-in music (or video) app on the iPad.

(b) Play your music using a different app - such as 8player or AVplayerHD - that can stream the music from your NAS using DLNA or directly from the share (using SMB, NFS, or FTP).

There is a third option, but it is not really playing the music from the NAS itself. That option is to get a paid iCloud account from apple, and upload your music from the NAS to iCloud.

I believe there is a daap player on the iTunes app store. That should connect to your iTunes server.

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grimloch wrote:
I believe there is a daap player on the iTunes app store. That should connect to your iTunes server. Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

There is, but I don't think it is current, and it certainly didn't work with the RN102 forked-daap server.

StephenB wrote:
grimloch wrote: I believe there is a daap player on the iTunes app store. That should connect to your iTunes server. Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk There is, but I don't think it is current, and it certainly didn't work with the RN102 forked-daap server.

Did WhoCares? and/or Super_Poussin finally give up trying to get a port of this working as an addon or bin, etc? Last I remember was, the initial hope of solving this was dimishing...?