Comments on: Banshee 1.4 with DAAP music sharing

By: Sense Hofstede

Sense Hofstede — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:27:52 +0000

I posted an update on this post, about a more recent version of Banshee, at http://sensehofstede.nl/banshee-1-9-future-2-0-wi...

By: qense

qense — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:45:00 +0000

In the current version of Banshee that’s running on my system I don’t have to do the disable/reenable trick anymore. Are you using the most recent version of Ubuntu, or are you running the LTS?

However, your problem seems to be caused by something else.

The error messages complaining about the existance of .local domains are probably caused by the fact that Mac OS X publishes itself on the network with Zeroconf using {computername}.local. Avahi is shut down because if this; unicast DNS isn’t supported out of the box.

You could try to get it working by changing the line:
“hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4″
in the file /etc/nsswitch.conf
to
“hosts: files dns mdns4″

This ought to solve your problem.

By: Carl

Carl — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:55:06 +0000

Same here.

If you run banshee from a terminal you will see:

Failed to start DAAP client – No Zeroconf providers could be found or initialized. Necessary daemon may not be running.

This is connected to an error that appears at startup when avahi-daemon tries to start:

avahi-daemon disabled because there is a unicast .local domain

I don’t understand exactly what this .local domain is or why there is one (at work) but http://avahi.org/wiki/AvahiAndUnicastDotLocal gives a workaround. You can also delete /var/run/avahi-daemon/disabled-for-unicast-local and restart /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon but apparently this file will be recreated when you reboot.

When you’ve sorted that out you can disable-enable the DAAP extension and you should see the shared music entry in the tree. It doesn’t seem to be working for me. Possibly the extension only works for older versions of iTunes.

By: skug67

skug67 — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:17:50 +0000

Even after disabling and re-enabling the DAAP extension, I’m still not seeing a DAAP share. For that matter, I’m not seeing a “shared music” tab. Could you post a screenshot of where the music is showing up?

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:07:02 +0000

I have been using mt-daapd for a while. It’s not the easiest thing to set up, but it’s straightforward enough. /etc/mt-daapd.conf is well-annotated. The only catch is that you need to make sure your music folders and files are readable for others, because the daemon runs as its own user.

Works well with Banshee’s DAAP client.