Problem with Daap - iTunes 10.5.3.3

[greenBene]

Hey guys,
Yesterday, I installed VortexBox 2.0 on my old Laptop. Everything works great now, but I've got a problem with the daap server. My iTunes 10.5.3.3 can't find it. I tried to find an answer in the internet, but i failed.

PS. The dlna works great with the Windows media Player

Bene

[Ron Olsen]

The DAAP server on VB 2.0 (forked-daapd) is broken. See How To Install the dmapd DAAP Server on VB 2.0 to get a DAAP server that works with iTunes.

[kwatch]

The DAAP server on VB 2.0 (forked-daapd) is broken. See How To Install the dmapd DAAP Server on VB 2.0 to get a DAAP server that works with iTunes.

I installed the dmapd DAAP Server on VB 2.0 following the instruction given above link, but iTune 10.5.3.3 cannot find the Vortexbox under "Shared". What could cause this issue?

[Ron Olsen]

I installed the dmapd DAAP Server on VB 2.0 following the instruction given above link, but iTune 10.5.3.3 cannot find the Vortexbox under "Shared". What could cause this issue?

1. Login to your VortexBox; see How To Login to your VortexBox

2. Enter

systemctl status dmapd.service
cat /etc/dmapd.conf

3. Please report the output of these commands in your next post. Thanks.

[kwatch]

Vortexbox finally showed up in iTune. However, it takes a really long time to load songs.

[Ron Olsen]

Vortexbox finally showed up in iTune. However, it takes a really long time to load songs.

Nothing can be done on your VortexBox to shorten the load time. Things are working as they should.

You'll need a faster network and/or faster processors for your VB and your iTunes machine to reduce the load time.

The best way to get songs into iTunes is to use the FLAC-to-mp3 mirror and then add the mp3 songs to the iTunes library.

[kwatch]

I have Pentium Dual-Core CPU E6500 @ 2.93GHz with 2GB DDR2 in VotexBox and iTune is installed on a machine having i7 2600K wth 16GB DDR3. They are connected to 1 Gbps router by wire. It's been really fast loading songs but suddenly taking a long time to load songs.

[Ron Olsen]

Sounds as if your hardware isn't the problem. Run htop on your VB to see what's going on. Check /var/log/messages to see if there is anything from dmapd.

[kwatch]

I have whole buch of the followings in /var/log/messages. I'll appreciate it if you can help me to understand these.

Feb 9 07:53:21 vortexbox dmapd[834]: ** (dmapd:834): WARNING **: State change failed
Feb 9 07:53:21 vortexbox dmapd[834]: ** (dmapd:834): WARNING **: Could not determine duration of file:///storage/music/flac/Eroica Quartet/Schumann; String Quartets, Op. 41 - 2000/Folder.jpg
Feb 9 07:53:21 vortexbox dmapd[834]: ** (dmapd:834): WARNING **: No metadata found for file:///storage/music/flac/Eroica Quartet/Schumann; String Quartets, Op. 41 - 2000/Folder.jpg
Feb 9 07:53:21 vortexbox dmapd[834]: ** (dmapd:834): WARNING **: Container Eroica Quartet is empty, skipping
Feb 9 07:53:21 vortexbox dmapd[834]: ** (dmapd:834): WARNING **: State change failed
Feb 9 07:53:21 vortexbox dmapd[834]: ** (dmapd:834): WARNING **: Could not determine duration of file:///storage/music/flac/Janet Baker/The Very Best of Janet Baker, Disc 1 - 2002/Folder.jpg
Feb 9 07:53:21 vortexbox dmapd[834]: ** (dmapd:834): WARNING **: No metadata found for file:///storage/music/flac/Janet Baker/The Very Best of Janet Baker, Disc 1 - 2002/Folder.jpg
Feb 9 07:53:21 vortexbox dmapd[834]: ** (dmapd:834): WARNING **: State change failed
Feb 9 07:53:21 vortexbox dmapd[834]: ** (dmapd:834): WARNING **: Could not determine duration of file:///storage/music/flac/Janet Baker/Gustav Mahler; Kindertotenlieder; 5 Rückertlieder; Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen - 1999/Folder.jpg
Feb 9 07:53:21 vortexbox dmapd[834]: ** (dmapd:834): WARNING **: No metadata found for file:///storage/music/flac/Janet Baker/Gustav Mahler; Kindertotenlieder; 5 Rückertlieder; Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen - 1999/Folder.jpg
Feb 9 07:53:22 vortexbox dmapd[834]: ** (dmapd:834): WARNING **: State change failed
Feb 9 07:53:22 vortexbox dmapd[834]: ** (dmapd:834): WARNING **: Could not determine duration of file:///storage/music/flac/Janet Baker/The Very Best of Janet Baker, Disc 2 - 2002/Folder.jpg
Feb 9 07:53:22 vortexbox dmapd[834]: ** (dmapd:834): WARNING **: No metadata found for file:///storage/music/flac/Janet Baker/The Very Best of Janet Baker, Disc 2 - 2002/Folder.jpg
Feb 9 07:53:22 vortexbox dmapd[834]: ** (dmapd:834): WARNING **: Container Janet Baker is empty, skipping

[Ron Olsen]

I see similar messages in /var/log/messages for dmapd; I don't think they are anything to worry about.

You might try this to see if it improves dmapd performance:

1. Login to your VB.

2. Stop dmapd:

systemctl stop dmapd.service

3. Create a cache directory for dmapd:

mkdir -p /var/db/dmapd/DAAP

4. Start dmapd:

systemctl start dmapd.service

5. dmapd will start and will cache database info in /var/db/dmapd/DAAP/. This could take a while depending on the size of your music library in /storage/music/flac. When this completes, VortexBox will show up in the iTunes SHARED sidebar.

6. The initial load of songs into iTunes from VortexBox takes some time, but subsequent switching back to VortexBox from other iTunes sections is very fast.