DSM-G600, DNS-3xx and NSA-220 Hack Forum

forked-daap works for me. although it needs a state-of-the-art toolchain and is therefore not easy to compile.

Hi!

You are out of luck if you running the device with standard firmware kernel. It is just to old and won't support required stuff like signalfd, inotify, eventfd or the like. I know there are attempts (non working) to backpatch and work arround this but I wouldn't recommend any of it.

If you are running debian just install the package and be done with it as a pretty recent version of forked-daapd made it into squeeze.

Never used chroot debian but assume it doesn't come with working package system?

So for  building yourself in chroot there are now release tarballs avaible that way simplify the toolchain requirements (i.e no antrl3/java dependencies for builds). They are available here: http://alioth.debian.org/~jblache/forked-daapd/
I would create a package for you guys but I have bricked my DNS a while ago! In the lack of a jtag/serial cable and relutancy (and unability ;-)) to solder one it just sits and rust in a corner now.

Kai, et al,

After spelunking around, I found this site which is owned by the guy who has taken over the lack of mt-daapd development and is heading up the development of forked-daapd.  For those of you technically inclined in the world of UNIX, please look to see if the tarball can be recompiled (or whatever) for the 323.

http://blog.technologeek.org/2010/09/04/345

Oxygen, et al,

Looks like several folks have ID'd the problem at http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jsp … p;tstart=0

Poster "Flyn" stated:  "I am the maintainer of dmapd, a server that supports DAAP. I found that my dmapd had the same problem as mt-daapd when it came to interoperability with iTunes 10. It seems that iTunes 10 requires aeMK/com.apple.itunes.mediakind included in the response to a "GET /databases/1/items." Ensuring that dmapd included this in its response fixed the server's ability to work with iTunes 10. As it has been pointed out, forked-daapd already does this. I suspect adding support for aeMK/com.apple.itunes.mediakind to mt-daapd would fix that server as well.

aeMK/com.apple.itunes.mediakind has been around for a few versions of iTunes. I suspect previous versions assumed a value of 1 (Music) when its value was missing from a response. iTunes 10 is more picky, which might actually turn out better for users once the servers are fixed. "

Further on, poster "technobabble" IDs the change: "Just seen the info from Flyn, looked at forked-daapd and dmapd and if you don't mind the hardcoding mt-daapd to simply state the mediakind is music then you only need two lines of code to daap.c (I'm running mt-daapd 0.2.4.2). With the changes below I can browse/stream music to iTunes 10..."

There are 323 and other NAS owners on this thread pleading for savy folks to recompile mt-daapd with the changes to regain the iTunes functionality.  So, please have at it!

After a couple of evenings trying to compile this thing, I give up. First I had to wade through countless dependencies, which themselves had some dependencies. Nightmare

Yesterday finally all the necessary libraries compiled successfully, but forked-daapd itself complained with error messages right from the beginngin. As oxygen stated, I fear the NAS OS is simply too old to be compatible with this kind of software.

Disclaimer: I never before dealt with mt-daapd or even tried to compile it. I barely know what it does. I tried to find some resources on how other people compiled it for the NAS (surely an older version is available?), but no luck. If someone has done this before or has some insight on what is necessary to compile it, please let me know.

Hi Guys,
I figured mt-daapd would eventually fall behind for a long time now, and I've exchanged emails with Julien (the author) about NAS support since the beginning of the work on forked-daapd.

It definitely won't compile or operate as is on NAS boxes with older kernels without heavy rewrite of the code.

I'm the sponsor of this project ( http://www.freelancer.com/projects/C-Pr … ation.html ) to get forked-daapd running on all the NAS boxes out there, so once it's done, people will be able to compile it for the individual NAS models.  It'll be a few more weeks still, but work is happening.

Can someone post what kernel version is running on the DNS-323 with firmware 1.08?

Thanks,
G

If you have telnet or ssh access to your NAS command line then type

uname -a

at the command line and it will report the kernel version information.

Thanks,

G

scaramanga wrote:

Latest Kernel version is: 2.6.12.6-arm1

Thanks, scaramanga.  I'm away from my 323 and couldn't run the command recommended by gabenx.

Is the kernel version the same for 1.09?

Apple released iTunes 10.1 yesterday.  Anybody had problems with it?

Here's the update release info:
    * Use AirPlay to instantly and wirelessly stream videos from iTunes to the all-new Apple TV.
    * Sync with your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iOS 4.2.
    * Provides a number of important stability and performance improvements.