Re: [slim] iTunes alternatives
Sorry for the late follow-up. I did eventually resolve my iTunes library rebuilds. I don't understand what was going on. It seems to have been issue with confused resource forks on the file server (an Infrant/Netgear ReadyNAS) on which I store my iTunes library. Some combination of carefully deleting all the hidden files containing the resource forks and temporarily connecting via SMB/CIFS instead of AppleShare did the trick. (I prefer AppleShare since it seems to more gracefully handle my machine going in and of sleep.) -- Lorrin Lorrin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39111 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Missing accented files: iTunes and composed vs decomposed unicode
Files with accents in their names aren't showing up in my SlimServer library. This is an iTunes interaction problem. For example, I see this in the log file: 2008-02-16 22:23:51.7372 iTunes: file not found: /Volumes/media/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Wir Sind Helden/Soundso/04 Fu#776;r Nichts Garantieren.mp3 The corresponding entry in my iTunes Music Library.xml is this: keyLocation/keystringfile://localhost/Volumes/media/Music/iTunes/iTunes%20Music/Wir%20Sind%20Helden/Soundso/04%20Fu%CC%88r%20Nichts%20Garantieren.mp3/string Note the u%CC%88: that's a u-umlaut created with a u followed by a Combining Diaeresis (dialytika). If I browse to the file in Firefox, the URL I end up with this: file:///Volumes/media/Music/iTunes/iTunes%20Music/Wir%20Sind%20Helden/Soundso/04%20F%C3%BCr%20Nichts%20Garantieren.mp3 Note it uses %C3%BC to get the u-umlaut directly. It seems like somewhere along the way there's a failure to recognize that the decomposed Unicode path in the iTunes Music Library.xml is equivalent to the composed Unicode that is the name of the file on disk. My SlimServer setup involves three machines: a Mac that runs iTunes, a file server (Infrant/NetGear ReadyNAS) that stores the music library, and an Ubuntu machine that runs SlimServer. The Mac accesses the NAS via AppleShare and the Ubuntu machine accesses it via NFS. SlimServer Version: 6.5.4 - 12568 - Debian - EN - utf8 Perl Version: 5.8.8 i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi MySQL Version: 5.0.45-Debian_1ubuntu3.1 Thanks for any help... -Lorrin -- Lorrin Lorrin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43570 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Missing accented files: iTunes and composed vs decomposed unicode
hmm.. I should have been more specific. If I browse to the file in Firefox on the Ubuntu machine, the URL contains %C3%BC. But if I do on the Mac, the URL contains u%CC%88. This implies the NAS is exposing one file name to the Mac and another one to the Ubuntu machine. Seems like the fix needs to be there, rather than in SlimServer. Advice welcome... :-) -- Lorrin Lorrin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43570 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] iTunes alternatives
I'm currently using iTunes. Virtually every time I restart iTunes it decides my library is corrupt and churns for hours rebuilding it from the XML file. Argh! I'd love to use a different library system. Can anything else do what I do with iTunes? * dynamic smart playlists based on ratings and genre and listening stats * syncs to a portable player. Portable player can input ratings to the system. * SlimServer can read the dynamic playlists * podcast support Bonus points for bi-directional interaction with SlimServer so that Squeezebox ratings/playback feeds back in to the system. Thanks! -Lorrin -- Lorrin Lorrin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39111 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Linux / iTunes / Mac using central library
I'm having difficulty getting SlimServer and iTunes to share a music library. I've got a Debian Linux box with SlimServer running on it and some shared disk space. I've got iTunes running on my iBook. The remote linux volume is mounted and I've told iTunes to use it as the iTunes music folder location. All my music is thus in a location where both SlimServer and iTunes can get at it. However, iTunes is still keeping the library metadata (/Users/username/Music/iTunes/iTunes Library and /Users/username/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music Library.xml) locally on the iBook. I've seen folks mention using TweakUI / registry edits on Windows to trick iTunes into placing not just the music but also the library files themselves on a remote volume. But how do I do it on OS X? I suppose an work-around would be to set up a cron job to periodically copy the iTunes Music Library.xml from the iBook to the Linux box -- but then it'll never have the ability to make use of (future?) SlimServer features/plug-ins that push e.g. ratings/play counts/playlists back out to iTunes. Am I asking for too much? I thought I'd get to worry about multiple iBooks and disconnected operation before running to a wall! :-) -- Lorrin Lorrin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21010 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
