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You are correct. I am also very interested in upgrading the mt-daapd included in the official firmware, mainly because the latest versions of Firefly Media Server supports streaming video files to iTunes!

To start the included mt-daap, just use the Web GUI and start the iTunes-server. It's NOT firefly but at least a mt-daap, which later became FireFly. The FireFly has not yet, AFAIKN, not been compiled for the DNS. You cannot use the binaries for the DSM as they don't have the same CPU (ARM vs PPC).

Using debian I think you should be able to compile and get FireFLy up and running rather quickly.....I think.

HTH/Apan

Last edited by Apskaft (2007-02-05 12:42:56)

Apskaft wrote:

To start the included mt-daap, just use the Web GUI and start the iTunes-server.

i'm not sure i understand... are you saying I should use the DNS-323's factory web GUI? or the web GUI for the mt-daapd that I copied to the DNS (it's included in a sub folder, and I haven't figured out how to access it via a web browser yet - what http address would I use?)?

Now covered in the Wiki http://dns323.kood.org/howto:firefly /Apan

Hi,

I'm still struggling with FireFly, i.e. mt-daapd-svn-1498. As mentioned before I've given up using the buildsystem on the DNS and instead switched to the uClibc toolchain.

I have successfully compiled mt-daapd version 0.2.4 from the D-Link GPL directory and it's running. SVN-1498 is compiled but it doesn't work and I can't figure out how to solve it and need some assistance. The binary file starts but at startup it complains about unresolved references do 'deflate'.

I've looked into the internals of svn-1498 and since 0.2.4 plugins has been introduced. These plugins are implemented, in Un*x, using the dynamic linking loader (dlopen, dlclose, etc) and it appears as if it's this part that fails.

The missing 'deflate' function is part of the zlib-1.2.2 and in 0.2.4 this lib is linked into the binary using '-lz'. However, when building SVN-1498 zlib is not present in any of the modules. '-lz' has no effect on the mt-daapd as it's never used within that binary and '-lz' does not include 'deflate' into the plugin.

I guess that this is really a compiler/linker question with a simple answer. But; can someone please point me in the right direction.

FYI: I'll cross-post this question in the FireFly forum as well.
edit: Seems like I'll need libz.so as well. Couldn't find any references to that one using objdump, will test more tonight.

/Apan

Last edited by Apskaft (2007-02-09 10:16:27)

Thanks for trying, Aspkaft! Sounds like we need to stick with the built-in mt-daapd server for now. Here is a progress report that I posted on the Roku forum. There maybe some useful tips in here for everyone else who is trying to get the DNS-323 to work with the Roku Soundbridge.

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Here is a quick progress report on my Soundbridge and D-Link DNS-323 setup. I was having issues connecting to the NAS. Sometimes two or more NAS entries would show up on the SB. Sometimes I could connect to one but not the other, or I would have to reboot the unit completely to get a decent connection. This problem seems to be related to the UPnP and iTunes server both identifying themselves on the network using the same name.

The other problem I had was that I couldn't edit any of the pre-configured playlists on the iTunes server. Although I was able to edit the mt-daapd configuration files (through telnet and vi), the iTunes server wouldn't pick them up and remember my settings after a reboot.

The solution I came up with is quite simple:
1. Switch off the iTunes server in the DNS-323 web interface
2. Copy etc/mt-daapd.conf and mt-daapd.playlist to /mnt/HD_a2
3. Edit mt-dappd.conf and give the iTunes server a new name
4. Change the location of the playlist in mt-daapd.conf to /mnt/HD_a2/mt-daapd.playlist
5. Add a line in the fun_plug script to start mt-daapd -c /mnt/HD_a2/mt-daapd.conf during a reboot

I can now edit the mt-daapd.playlist file with a text editor. As I said, this setup works quite well and I don't have any of the connection/reboot issues I had before.

Now I would like to add .m3u or iTunes-style playlists, but I haven't figured that out yet. The process_m3u option doesn't seem to work in this version of mt-daapd. So if anyone knows how to do this, I would like to hear about it. Thanks!

Apskaft wrote:

I give up.

I've now got FireFly running in standalone mode. Details about the process can be found in the wiki.

Attached is the file used to build FireFly, also available in the wiki.

The package does not include libraires for Ogg/Vorbis, but I guess that would be the next logical step for FireFly.

I have only tested to stream one file to iTunes.....but at least it's running with uClibc.

Please provide feedback if you are successful or have problems with it.


UPDATE The attached files contains a glitch....remove the 'exit' on line 196. Will fix it tonight...

/Apan

edit: Updated since all information is now in the wiki.

Last edited by Apskaft (2007-02-20 08:31:19)

eric wrote:

Hi I tried the binarys from the wiki page for standalone and got this:-

# export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mnt/HD_a2/lnx_bin/lib
# /mnt/HD_a2/lnx_bin/mt-daapd -f -c /mnt/HD_a2/lnx_bin/mt-daapd.conf
/mnt/HD_a2/lnx_bin/mt-daapd: '/mnt/HD_a2/lnx_bin/lib/libid3tag.so.0' is not an ELF file
/mnt/HD_a2/lnx_bin/mt-daapd: '/mnt/HD_a2/lnx_bin/lib/libz.so.1' is not an ELF file
/mnt/HD_a2/lnx_bin/mt-daapd: can't load library 'libz.so.1'

All the files have executable permissions any body have any idea how I can fix this ?

Regards Eric

I'll doublecheck the file uploaded later today, but they should be exactly the same files I tested with on my machine. If you're on a linux machine, check the lib files mentioned using objdump -x to see if they are corrupted. Also, check the symlinks in the lib directory.

I'm still on 1.01FW, but that shouldn't really matter.

I'm not sure, but it might be so that busybox contains the 'file' command, and by using this command you should be able to check the files on the DNS.

Also, from your lnx_bin directory, submit a recursive ls if possible (ls -lr .).


...and...executable permissions shouldn't matter, read is more important.

/Apan

I can't get the last line to work. I've tried it several ways with the following results. Any ideas?

# # /mnt/HD_a2/lnx_bin/mt-daapd -f -c /mnt/HD_a2/lnx_bin/mt-daapd.conf

/mnt/HD_a2/lnx_bin/mt-daapd: can't load library 'libz.so.1'
# # mnt/HD_a2/lnx_bin/mt-daapd -f -c mnt/HD_a2/lnx_bin/mt-daapd.conf

/mnt/HD_a2/lnx_bin/sh: mnt/HD_a2/lnx_bin/mt-daapd: not found

Apskaft wrote:

(1) Looks like you've not successfully executed "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mnt/HD_a2/lnx_bin/lib" before starting mt-daapd.

post the result of: echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH

....and....remember to shut-down the iTunesServer before starting FireFly...
/Apan

Shutdown iTunesServer... Might want to add that one to the instructions

RESULTS:  /mnt/HD_a2/lnx_bin/lib

# # /mnt/HD_a2/lnx_bin/mt-daapd -f -c /mnt/HD_a2/lnx_bin/mt-daapd.conf

Firefly Version svn-1498: Starting with debuglevel 2
Starting rendezvous daemon
Starting signal handler
Error: enum_begin failed (error 1): Misc SQL Error: no such table: config
Can't get db version. New database?
Initializing database
Error: enum_begin failed (error 1): ?
Error: enum_begin failed (error 1): ?
Full reload...
Starting mp3 scan
opendir: No such file or directory
Starting playlist scan
Updating playlists
Error scanning MP3 files: No such file or directory
Scanned 0 songs in 0 seconds
Starting web server from /mnt/HD_a2/lnx_bin/admin-root on port 3689
Registering rendezvous names
Serving 0 songs.  Startup complete in 0 seconds
Got shutdown signal.
Stopping gracefully
Stopping rendezvous daemon
Callback: Memory Free
Callback: Memory Free
Callback: Memory Free
Closing database
Done!

Looks like i'm in business

Apskaft - This is friggin' awesome! Great work :-)

Everything works out of the box. In addition to switching off the iTunes server in the DNS-323 web interface, make sure you don't extract the .tar.gz to the NAS using Winzip. Otherwise, you'll get a library not found error because Winzip doesn't restore the symbolic links that are in the .tar file. This might be obvious for Linux heads, but people who use Windows (like me) might fall into this trap.

Apskaft thanks this is great

My problem was that I un tarred the files before putting them onto the dns-323 thus breaking the symbolic links.

Thank you so much for your efforts and help

Eric