[slim] Integrating iTunes accross platforms

Chris Johnson Sun, 13 Mar 2005 18:34:53 -0800

Getting a SqueezeBox, finally inspired me to get my music off my main PC and onto a dedicated file server. I set up a Debian Linux box and moved all my audio (residing on a FireWire external drive) onto that server. I then set up Samba and pointed my normal PC to the shared drive, so as far as Win2K Pro is concerned, nothing has changed. All applications work exactly as before.

I then moved SlimServer off of my Windows machine and onto the fileserver. Great. No problem, music is fully visible and plays fine. (iTunes integration turned off)

Now I wanted to re-enable the integration with iTunes. iTunes (thinking the drive is on a Windows machine) writes the XML with file names like "P:\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\". Linux is seeing the actual files in "/media/fw/My Documents/My Music/iTunes". I believe this is causing the slimserver to not correctly parse the xml file and get the playlists.

Is there any solution for this?  Have others tried this configuration?

Also, when the slimserver encounters the playlist, the server crashes. Even if it doesn't integrate, it should probably handle the anomoly more gracefully. Should I file that as a bug?

Using the Nightly Build of 6.0 from 3/12/2005.

Thanks,
Chris
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