Re: DAAP server for OS X or Debian?
--- On Mon, 3/8/10, tv.debian@googlemail.com <tv.debian@googlemail.com> wrote:
> From: tv.debian@googlemail.com <tv.debian@googlemail.com>
> Subject: Re: DAAP server for OS X or Debian?
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Monday, March 8, 2010, 1:26 PM
> Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I use iTunes on a Mac to host my very large music
> library. I want to share
> >this music over DAAP to my Debian box (dont really care
> what client i use,
> >Rhythmbox or Banshee or Songbird is all fine), but the
> iTunes version encrypts
> >it so you cant use it with non-iTunes clients.
> >
> > Is there a current, supported DAAP server that runs on
> OS X, or alternately, if
> >i decided to switch to host my music on Debian (which i
> dont want to do mainly
> >because i have a bunch of useful utilities on the Mac
> that dont exist on Linux),
> >is there a recommended one for Linux?
> >
> > Ive looked at some of the projects, but they confuse
> me because there are a lot
> >and some of them are no longer supported, or use
> plugins that are no longer
> >supported, etc. So if there's a "main" one that
> everyone likes, I will be happy
> >to use that.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Jen
> >
> >
> Hi, I had good luck using mt-daapd (known also as
> "firefly") to serve my
> music (flac and ogg mainly) hosted on my Debian machine.
> Clients running
> Rhythmbox, Amarok2 (Amarok from kde3 had issues with
> mt-daapd), or
> Songbird with a plugin have no trouble playing the files on
> my lan/wlan.
> I had the occasional Mac clients (ITunes) and they were
> able to use the
> mt-daapd share too, even Winamp on Windows.
> I read a while ago that it's possible to run the server on
> Mac OSX
> through Fink or Macport, but since I have no interest in it
> I didn't
> investigate any further, your favourite search engine
> should tell you
> more (maybe there's a native Mac version now).
Firefly is apparently no longer under active development, theres a linux-only fork of it though. So i dont feel comfortable going with something that is been abandoned.
Jen.
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