Evan_E wrote: > I've searched the forum for terms like "iTunes", "MacOS", and > "Catalina", but can't seem to find anything about this - as of the > forthcoming release of MacOS 10.15 "Catalina", Apple's going to be > dispensing with iTunes, replacing it with a "Music" app modeled after > the one in iOS. > > ... > > Thanks in advance for anyone who can share their experiences.
I just (perhaps foolishly) upgraded my LMS server to Catalina. Indeed iTunes import isn't working well. My library size even thwarts the manual "Export Library" to XML workaround. As a last resort, so I can listen to some music while I figure out databases etc., I tried pointing LMS's "Music Folder" to my Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music folder, and lo-and-behold, it worked great. The other thing Catalina does is deprecate all 32 bit executables. This interferes with LMS's ability to on-the-fly convert file formats. These converters (on my system) are in /Library/PreferencePanes/Squeezebox.prefPane/Contents/server/Bin/darwin. I used homebrew to install 64-bit versions of most of them - faad, mac, sox, flac, all have easy replacements, and I removed the 32-bit versions from the prefPane, and replaced them with symlinks to the homebrew executables in /usr/local/bin. There is one missing one, though: "sls", which is proprietary by Fraunhofer. Strings on that binary says this: Code: -------------------- MPEG-4 SLS / HD-AAC Decoder (c) 2006-2009 Fraunhofer IIS Erlangen (build: %s) All Rights Reserved. This build is for use with Squeezebox Server only. This software and/or program is protected by copyright law and international treaties. Any reproduction or distribution of this software and/or program, or any portion of it, may result in severe civil and criminal penalties, and will be prosecuted to the maximum extent possible under law. -------------------- According to Settings>>Advanced>>File types, SLS is used for MPEG-4 SLS/HD-AAC files. Not sure if I have any of those, or how I'd check. Anyway, I'm happily listening to my library again, with only a little inconvenience. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dylan Mc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=69479 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111037 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter