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#1 2010-03-12 10:56:26

Egoist
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From: Seattle
Registered: 2010-03-12
Posts: 10

iTunes server nightmares

DNS-323, firmware 1.08, hardware is B1.  If I specify the stock itunes server to look at root, it will choke at about 65%.  But if I point it to my music only folder, will quickly parse my music library (roughly 90gigs) but won't actually serve.  Then when I install the firefly apkg add-on, it will, for days, say it is building the database.  Anyone got any clues?

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#2 2010-03-12 23:47:52

haim
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Registered: 2010-01-13
Posts: 83

Re: iTunes server nightmares

After installing the firefly apkg it wasn't working for me either.  Then I saw a message from some dlink moderator suggesting trying to stop the firefly addon in the web admin of the nas and then start it (the addon that is ) again.

That worked for me.

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#3 2010-03-13 02:33:28

Egoist
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From: Seattle
Registered: 2010-03-12
Posts: 10

Re: iTunes server nightmares

No such luck.  I've also tried use the funpkg firefly addon.  It will scan my media library in about 6-7 minutes with no problem.  But then the server will crash about 3 minutes while playing any song.

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#4 2010-03-14 06:56:27

CurtisL
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Registered: 2007-05-29
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Re: iTunes server nightmares

I had a very similar problem (if not identical).  Once I realized what was going on, it was easy to rectify, but it might be harder for you.
This isn't very scientific, but iTunes did something (tag-wise) to one or more of my mp3 files.  Whatever it did was causing firefly to crash.  It crashes while trying to build its database of song info based on the tags.
The lesson I learned is not to use iTunes to modify MP3 metadata, if I want to keep using Firefly.
If you tail the firefly logs, you should be able to see the offending track(s).  Unfortunately, its an iterative process.  If you fix one file, you'll get a little further but it will crash at the next file you modified with iTunes.
I had to use another tag editor (ID3-TagIT), and remove all "invalid" tags.

Hope that helps.

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#5 2010-03-14 09:22:24

Egoist
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From: Seattle
Registered: 2010-03-12
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Re: iTunes server nightmares

Wow, thanks.  You're the first person on three message boards to include anything useful.  And where might these firefly error logs be exactly?

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#6 2010-03-15 05:32:48

Egoist
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From: Seattle
Registered: 2010-03-12
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Re: iTunes server nightmares

Wow great advice.  Thanks.  It took a while but narrowed down which album it was.  Working like a charm now.

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