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Use a OSX box as an iTunes music server
Authored by: Velociped on Feb 28, '04 10:55:50PM

The previous respondent does not seem to have answered the question(s) which you have posed.

So can you do this running OSX 2 or 3?

Yes; the software compiles without issue under both of the mentioned releases of OS X. Provided you have installed the three required dependencies beforehand, everything will work quite well.

... how would new music be added to the lists?

The method I use is as follows:

My daapd daemon is running on an old, headless 8600 running 10.2.8. I rip my disks on my iBook and then transfer the directories containing the encoded MP3s (the daapd daemon is only able to serve MP3s — not AAC or other format files) into the desired position within the directory tree. Then, restart the daapd process; no need to kill the mDNSProxyResponder. (I have written a StartupItem for the daapd service which contains a restart branch. So, I simply issue the restart command through the SystemStarter. The same result can be obtained by killing the process and restarting the daemon.) Voila, the new tracks are now available throughout the subnet.

... would it have to be added to the broadcasted playlists manually through SSH?

Well, the current release of the daapd daemon does not support playlists — only the master "Library" is published. Thus you would still be required to make use of the GUI and iTunes if you wanted to create and publish specialized playlists.

The alternate mt-daapd project, mentioned in another thread, does support the creation and publication of playlists. However, I have not used this and cannot comment on the procedure.

I just don't want to run VNC or Timbuktu.

As I mentioned above, if you can live without playlists (or are willing to compile and install mt-daapd), then it is possible to maintain (add, subtract, etc.) tracks and albums within your music database remotely and entirely from the command line.



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Use a OSX box as an iTunes music server
Authored by: bluehz on Feb 29, '04 12:18:29AM

I second that vote for mt-daapd. Couple of pluses over daapd:

* multithreaded
* supports static and smart playlists
* self-contained - much fewer dependencies
* Supports most ID3v1 and v2 tags
* Runs as a daemon (no need to keep iTunes open as the server)



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