mt-daapd 0.2.1.1+ Howl 0.9.8 = No mDNS advertising. Help!

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ShawnWheatley · Post by **ShawnWheatley** » Tue May 03, 2005 4:56 pm

Hi everybody,

I rebuilt my Gentoo box over the weekend. Months ago, before I needed to rebuild, I was using a 0.2.1.1 without any problems, using an ebuild file created by a user in the Gentoo community. Since I've rebuilt, mt-daapd has been added into Portage. Currently, Howl 0.9.6 is not building correctly so I am using Howl 0.9.8. Everything installs fine, but I don't see my server in iTunes. I can see the server if I manually run:

mDNSPublish "SeverName" _daap._tcp 3689 (not sure of the exact syntax, but you get the idea)

but I never had to do that before. Obviously it's not a firewall issue if that's the case, so it's either a problem (configuration or otherwise) with mt-daapd or Howl. It compiled mt-daapd with the "howl" use flag, which seems to have set all the flags needed to use Howl and not the built-in mDNS server.

Does anybody have any ideas?

squeeden · Post by **squeeden** » Tue May 24, 2005 11:51 pm

I, too, am having the same problem. Not sure of the fix. In addition, iTunes now crashes after a few seconds of playing. Also not cool.

RedBeard0531 · Post by **RedBeard0531** » Tue May 31, 2005 6:09 pm

Remve howl from your USE flags and stop it from loading at boot up. mt-daapd is an all-in-one product. It works fine w/o any external support. infact im listining to some music on the itunes on my lappy served off of mt-daapd while i type this:D.

EmmEff · Post by **EmmEff** » Tue May 31, 2005 8:29 pm

It appears to be an incompatibility between the newer version of howl and mt-daapd. According to a forum post, the author was going to look at the problem... for the time being, using the built-in support appears to work.

hgerstung · Post by **hgerstung** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 5:22 am

Hi again!

I found this thread and it seems that my problem is similiar, so maybe someone can help out...

My mt-daapd stopped working a few months ago and I was waiting for a long time to see it repaired, but all emerge -u mt-daapd runs did not help so far, and now I really want to fix this.

When I moved from daapd (which did not work also) with howl support, I removed howl from my USE flags and emerged mt-daapd with mDNSresponder support instead. But my iTunes clients are not able to see the server, and even tunesbrowser running on the same machine does not detect it.

What can I try to make this work? I do not think that this is a firewall issue, but is there a way to find out if the port is blocked or something like that?

Thanks in advance for any hints!

Kind regards,
Heiko

woZa · Post by **woZa** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:08 pm

I had problems too. Solved it by using ~x86 version of mt-daapd with howl use flag (otherwise iTunes tells me the database version is incompatible). mDNSResponder is started when mt-daapd starts. Hope that helps...

joey_knisch · Post by **joey_knisch** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 4:56 pm

Listen to RedBeard0531. It works without the howl use flag ie (echo media-sound/mt-daapd -howl >> /etc/portage/package.use)

woZa · Post by **woZa** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 5:51 pm

joey_knisch wrote:Listen to RedBeard0531. It works without the howl use flag ie (echo media-sound/mt-daapd -howl >> /etc/portage/package.use)

Not in my case. As stated iTunes 6.0.1 (3) for os x gives incompatible database version.

hgerstung · Post by **hgerstung** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 9:24 pm

woZa wrote:
joey_knisch wrote:Listen to RedBeard0531. It works without the howl use flag ie (echo media-sound/mt-daapd -howl >> /etc/portage/package.use)
Not in my case. As stated iTunes 6.0.1 (3) for os x gives incompatible database version.

I gave it a try and voila, with howl enabled it works fine now with tunesbrowser and iTunes!

One last question:
How can I stop portage from updating the packages howl, mDNSResponder and mt-daapd ? Some entry in package.mask?

Regards,
Heiko

joey_knisch · Post by **joey_knisch** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 7:04 am

woZa wrote:
joey_knisch wrote:Listen to RedBeard0531. It works without the howl use flag ie (echo media-sound/mt-daapd -howl >> /etc/portage/package.use)
Not in my case. As stated iTunes 6.0.1 (3) for os x gives incompatible database version.

With iTunes 5+ I believe you need mt-daapd 2.2+

When I upgraded iTunes I ran into that problem and had to go to a ~x86 version of mt-daapd to fix it. As of now those versions are still marked as ~x86.

octanez · Post by **octanez** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 9:51 pm

upgrading mt-dappd to 0.3.0_pre20060112 (~amd64) worked for me, it now announces on the network properly