WHMCR » Bonjour http://www.whmcr.com Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:00:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Issues with OS X 10.5 iTunes 8.1.1 and mt-daapd (aka Firefly Media Server) http://www.whmcr.com/2009/05/issues-with-os-x-105-itunes-811-and-mt-daapd-aka-firefly-media-server/ http://www.whmcr.com/2009/05/issues-with-os-x-105-itunes-811-and-mt-daapd-aka-firefly-media-server/#comments Mon, 25 May 2009 18:01:50 +0000 welby http://www.whmcr.com/?p=9 I’ve recently upgraded my iTunes installation on my MacBookPro to 8.1.1 and to my horror found that I’m no longer able to connect to my DAAP library on my NAS.

This is rather strange as the issue has only just appeared in 8.1.1 and does not appear on my windows machines which reside on a different network, and have Bonjour / Rendezvous mDNS traffic broadcast locally by RendevousProxy. After much annoyance, I decided to do a quick check of what an older iTunes library was sending out, and comparing that to Avahi. It turns out that my Avahi configuration was missing some vital Text Records. This wasn’t an issue in previous revisions of the iTunes client, but appears to be an issue in 8.1.1.

I updated my daap.service file in /etc/avahi/services/ to the following

<?xml version="1.0" standalone='no'?><!--*-nxml-*-->
<!DOCTYPE service-group SYSTEM "avahi-service.dtd">
<service-group>
<name replace-wildcards="yes">%h</name>
  <service>
      <type>_daap._tcp</type>
          <port>3689</port>
	  <txt-record>txtvers=1</txt-record>
	  <txt-record>iTSh Version=131073</txt-record>
	  <txt-record>Version=196610</txt-record>  </service>
</service-group>
And restarted Avahi for good measure and now can connect to my mt-daapd library again!
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