sadly i read that it's an old bug reported more than 1 year ago between firefly users and that firefly itself has been abandoned. the good news is that there is actually a working fix which is switching from firefly (code name mt-daapd) to forked-daapd, a fork of firefly http://www.ohloh.net/p/forked-daapd
i don't know if the readynas team had planned to remove firefly and make the switch to forked-daapd
otherways, downgrade to itunes 10.3.1 http://ismashphone.com/2011/06/how-to-downgrade-itunes-105-beta-to-itunes-103.html
I too have the problem with firefly and upgrade to ITunes 10.5 , But like the previous problem I am going to wait and see if readynas comes up with a patch to rectify the problem for me.
Apparently itunes 10.5 has broken the ability to connect to DAAP servers like FireFly, this is affecting other NAS makes as well since they all use the same obsolete Firefly code.
I have previously posted a feature request for NetGear to switch to the forked-daap instead. See viewtopic.php?f=18&t=55446
As I pointed out a user has managed to port it to the Qnap NAS which has similar Linux problems as the version of Linux on the ReadyNAS (i.e. an ancient version of libc).
As this is now the second time this year that Apple has broken support for daap, NetGear really, really need to wake up and replace the long discontinued FireFly code.
What are you guys doing to work around this? I am having the same problem as well but I can't decide what to do (downgrade to 10.3 or wait if another solution pops up somewhere). Its very inconvenient not being able to have the music in iTunes! bummer....
Anyway, a contribute from Apple Community Forums (posted by Deledrius), from the thread about the same issue:
The problem (for any server software based on mt-daapd) is that iTunes now seems to require the SupportsUpdate field in the initial server-info handshake, which mt-daapd doesn't supply. Adding it to mt-daapd (even with a value of False) works with iTunes 10.5 fine
Mine stopped too, but I have desktop computers in the house so I imported the files into iTunes using the share from the readynas and they get shared from that system for now. For desktops i always did this anyhow because the organization features are better and it will share to my appletv which firefly never did. That might be in forked daap now too though.
Anyway, a contribute from Apple Community Forums (posted by Deledrius), from the thread about the same issue:
The problem (for any server software based on mt-daapd) is that iTunes now seems to require the SupportsUpdate field in the initial server-info handshake, which mt-daapd doesn't supply. Adding it to mt-daapd (even with a value of False) works with iTunes 10.5 fine
Do you have a link to this thread? Does Deledrius's post specifically refer to iTunes 10.5 or are you looking at an old thread referring to a compatibility issue that developed last year and was addressed by Apple?
It might be better for people to post their letters of support calling for NetGear to replace FireFly with forked-daap in this thread viewtopic.php?f=18&t=55446&p=314195 as this other thread is in the official Feature Requests forum and therefore might get more consideration.
It might be better for people to post their letters of support calling for NetGear to replace FireFly with forked-daap in this thread viewtopic.php?f=18&t=55446&p=314195 as this other thread is in the official Feature Requests forum and therefore might get more consideration.
Doesn't work. I can install ok; The iTunesServer add-on has been successfully installed.
Then I get this cryptic message; ERROR: start-stop-daemon -S -q -x /usr/sbin/mt-daapd
Any ideas? iTunes is driving me crazy, I have lots of music in my iTunes library my mac mini server, with the music on the ReadyNAS. Made the mistake of upgrading and now nothing works.
At this stage I want to take iTunes out for a long walk in a forrest late at night... Greedy Apple strikes again.
I just ordered an extra 2tb drive, going to do a backup, update and factory default when it arrives. I will wait until then to clean things up, this will give me a few days to tidy up the music meta data anyway.
How do I access the system folders to manually configure?
I've updated the server to 1.0.3 but I can't find the application on the Streaming or Install-Add on tabs. Logs show that it's been installed. I've even rebooted and tried again and still it's not showing up. Running firmware 4.1.8. Anyone have any suggestions?
