Please port forked-daapd to ReadyNAS to replace Firefly

[mkeesmaat]

Still waiting for forked-daapd add-on ?????
Please please please

Now I have to power the PC on to listen to my itunes library on my NAS, silly!

[grimloch]

Maybe a member of the Jedi council could comment as to the possibility whether this will ever happen. If it's a definite no please tell us so there's no need to keep wondering.

[eton]

Bump!
forked-daapd to ReadyNas now, no time to waste.

[grimloch]

Whocares told me recently that he's been working on it for months, but there are some major hurdles to overcome.

One of my airport expresses is not working so I'm going to replace it with an apple TV today. Looking forward to not having to turn on a PC to stream music from the NAS and control with my Android iTunes remote! Hopefully sooner than later.

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[eton]

Whocares told me recently that he's been working on it for months...

That sounds very promising. Mr Whocares has made some great contributes to ReadyNas add-ons.

[Dewdman42]

+1

Another approach though would be to focus on the user mode stuff like libc that the community can't update. If you get those up to date then many addons like this one will be easy for the user community to do on our own.

This is really the key. This libc issue has shown up in a number of other places as well. For example, the most up to date version of utorrent server also needs it. I don't understand all of the issues exactly related to libc, but it sounds like its a kernal level issue which requires the firmware to be updated. But I do think that if the kernal were updated somehow to support this, lik dsm said, other users could contribute a lot more easily.

By the way, someone mentioned the QNAP has had this libc issue in the past as well. I do see that the QNAP seems to have a lot more addons ported to it. Does anyone know how they dealt with the libc issue over there or why they have so many more addons ported?

Myself, I tried the itunes server on my readyNAS and basically it would not airplay to AppleTV and would not stream to my iphone's normal media player either. Honestly I don't even see the point of firefly unless you have a household full of people that play all their music through their itunes client on their computers and you want one central server for it. Maybe in college dorms. Firefly works for that. But that's about it. Most of the stuff people want to do is playing their itunes library through other devices like AppleTV, iphones, ipads, Roku, etc...none of which firefly helps with.

[jelockwood]

It looks like as of iTunes 10.6.3 compatibility with Firefly Server is broken yet again. This only serves to further support the need for NetGear to get of their *** and update their software to a) support libc, and then b) support porting forked-daapd to the ReadyNAS.

EDIT - correction, 4.2.21 firmware does work with iTunes 10.6.3, I was running 4.2.19 firmware which was supposed to include the patched version of Firefly but it did not work, after upgrading to 4.2.21 it is fine. I still think NetGear need to get forked-daapd ported.

[super-poussin]

done on arm readynas

[jelockwood]

done on arm readynas

Congratulations and many thanks for doing this this, I personally have x86 (Pro) models so I will have to wait until you have a version for those.

[grimloch]

Is it available for download for arm? I also have a pro, but just curious..

[InTheShires]

done on arm readynas

Wow. That is good news for those ARM owners.

Last I recall, Stefan said it was looking like a task and a half, and might never be possible without some heavy tweaking. How does the ARM units deal with the problems Stefan encountered?

Can't find his post currently, but it should be searchable.

[mdgm]

The OS on ARM is newer which should make it a bit easier

Stefan has made good progress recently on x86 and it should be possible provided a few issues are sorted out.

[dsm1212]

Great news! Sounds promising.

[jmp909]

hi. what's the status with the ARM version of forked-daapd? I was just looking at one of these http://www.dabs.com/products/netgear-readynas-nv--v2--4-bay----no-drives-included-7SLK.html , so presumably that would be suitable model? I've put forked-daapd on a virtual linux install (in VirtualBox) before and the iTunes "Remote" app pairing works well. Looking forward to getting this working on a NAS box and being able to breakaway from having to run iTunes on a pc.

thanks for any info
j

[super-poussin]

hi. what's the status with the ARM version of forked-daapd? I was just looking at one of these http://www.dabs.com/products/netgear-re ... -7SLK.html , so presumably that would be suitable model? I've put forked-daapd on a virtual linux install (in VirtualBox) before and the iTunes "Remote" app pairing works well. Looking forward to getting this working on a NAS box and being able to breakaway from having to run iTunes on a pc.

thanks for any info
j

doable need to check stabiilty