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?
Personally, I'd use a script to fix it (tell Slimserver and Windows that iTunes is in different locations, then copy the xml from the windows home to the linux home and use a sed one-liner to translate the filenames). I don't use iTunes, so I don't know what implications there are in that, but I think that Slimserver just reads the iTunes database every now and then to see if it's changed. If you want to get fancy with your script, you could only copy it over to the Linux home when it changes.
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