iTunes 10

[morphean]

So far with my TS-419P, iTunes 10 does not work, I have reverted back to iTunes 9 and all works as expected. Not sure whether this is a bug with iTunes 10 or the MultiMedia Station needs an update to bring it inline with iTunes 10.

Either way it does not work so if you use the MulitMedia Station with iTunes Service. DO NOT UPGRADE to iTunes 10 until this issue is resolved..

[Q]

hi

apple changed their daap protocol a bit (once again)... so we need an update on the qnap nas.

i wrote some more details about that topic at http://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?f=144&t=34237, so let me quote myself the important part for your question:

some smart people are currently analyzing the recent changes apple made and it seems there is already a solution (http://github.com/jasonmc/forked-daapd#readme) that works again with itunes 10. so it should spread soon to other platforms and forks and hopefully qnap can integrate the necessary changes soon as well. afaik qnap's itunes solution is also - as most (all?) others - based on firefly or a fork of it.

sadly apple doesn't really care to let the world know their changes and extension of the daap protocol, it's proprietary and not open. itunes server on our nas just exists because some cool people did reverse engineer the protocol in the past.

so we need to have a little patience. as said we speak about a proprietary apple protocol, they don't tell the specs to anybody afaik. but when i look at the recent discussion in the apple forum regarding forked-daapd (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jsp ... 0&tstart=0), i have good hopes that it will work again in future on our QNAP nas too.

[Trojka]

iTunes update 10.0.1 (just released) seems to have solved the problem!

[radekker]

iTunes 10.0.1 does not solve the problem in Windows XP!!!

[BartW]

upgrade to firmware 3.3.3 Build0928 on your 419P it fixes the issue with iTunes 10

[Enhancements]
- iTunes Service is now working with latest iTunes release (v10.0.1)

more info: http://www.qnap.com/download_detail.asp ... e=Firmware

[radekker]

Still no luck with iTunes 10.0.1 and a TS-119 with firmware 3.3.3. and Windows XP.
iTunes 9 worked like a charm.

[compotter]

same here, no luck with my ts-210

[barery24]

hi radekker,compotter
update iTunes to 10.0.1.22
it should be work......

[compotter]

Hey, i have 10.0.1.22 installed.
No chance on Win7/64Bit nor WinXP/32Bit

[schumaku]

Hey, i have 10.0.1.22 installed.
No chance on Win7/64Bit nor WinXP/32Bit

Tell us more - iTunes "server" on NAS not visible in iTunes left pane, or content won't be listed after selecting the NAS in the right iTunes panel?

[ceekee]

I have win xp, latest QNAP fw, latest itunes software.

But content won't be listed after selecting the NAS in the right iTunes panel.

Please advice

[manfredell]

Doesn't work here to.

OSX 10.6, latest iTunes. 659Pro latest fw.

I cannot even select the NAS entry in itunes, it jumps immediately to the Music folder.

[lezon]

Hello,

Same problem as manfredel here !

My conf :
OS X 10.6.4
iTunes 10.0.1
TS-539 Pro II (3.3.4)

[MelechRic]

After some google-fu I found that iTunes 10 breaks compatibility with the currently shipping versions of mt-daapd (FireFly) that ships with most NAS devices including our beloved QNAP products. This site has a link to the patch that fixes the issue:

http://tutorial.downloadatoz.com/how-to ... daapd.html

This is the link to the actual patch file:
http://www.informaarten.nl/mt-daapd-for ... ects=0&d=1

I spent the better part of a morning installing the necessary ipkg packages to build my own version of the mt-daapd daemon on the QNAP (TS-419P). You need quite a bit of stuff to do the build:

make
patch
the ARM toolchain (gcc and binutils)
sqlite2
libid3tag

and probably a few others I'm forgetting. You also need the source for the mt-daapd daemon. I grabbed the latest source (that happens to be around 2 years old) from the firefly site. Here's the link:
http://nightlies.fireflymediaserver.org ... 696.tar.gz

Fortunately I'm a longtime unix/linux user so it wasn't that huge an undertaking. After getting everything built and constructing a new mt-daapd.conf file (because for some reason the latest mt-daapd didn't like the QNAP supplied .conf file) I got it working.

Itunes 10.1 is able to see the server and also see all the files. If there is some burning interest in a HOWTO I'll cobble one together. Otherwise it's probably wise to just wait for QNAP to create a new firmware with a patched mt-daapd daemon.