0.8.2 daap support?

[Shamael]

I've read on the changelog that the new VLC should be able to play an itunes (remote) library, but hey I haven't been able to find how to do it!
I have only sap and shoutcast service discovery, but not daap...

Help so I can get rid of itunes!

Shamael

[fkuehne]

Which OS do you use? If you compile VLC on your own, make sure that you installed libopendaap and enabled its usage in VLC's configure.

[Shamael]

I am using the precompiled binaries for windows (2k pro). Should I download and compile libopendaap? I thought the daap protocol was supported in vnc without additional libraries.

[fkuehne]

No, we are using libopendaap for that, but the Win32-binary should be compiled with it, so you won't need to do on your own.

I'll ask a Win32-dev for that, if I see him this evening.

[Shamael]

Any news?

[jgds100]

daap support would be lovely.

It doesn't seem to be in the Win32-binary.

Any news would be great.

Thanks

[fkuehne]

Sorry for the late response. It seems that this feature isn't included in the final release for Windows. Could you please download a nightly build here and try again?

I have filed a ticket, so you can follow the progress on your issue there.

[The DJ]

The reason for this is actually that daap might not be fully GPL compliant. It actually shouldn't have been included in the mac version either.

[Shamael]

I tried the latest nightly build (vlc-win32-200508060358.zip) and nothing changes, except for the fact that selecting shoutcast now crashes the app.
However, I tried the mac osx version (stable 0.8.2) as well since I own also a powerbook. Daap is among SAP and shoutcast but it's buggy. After selecting it in the playlist window, 1468 elements are found (false, my daap server has many more songs on it) and then vlc crashes before I can even try to play something.

Is the daap protocol planned to be supported in future versions or is it something that wil be probably dropped from the roadmap?

[fkuehne]

Is the daap protocol planned to be supported in future versions or is it something that wil be probably dropped from the roadmap?

daap is supported through a 3rd party library, which is still in development. That's why this buggy behaviour occurs.
The author solved the licensing problems in the meantime (since the 0.8.2 release), so we will ship daap-enabled builds on all platforms by the next release as far as I know.
The next release is targetted for the end of september. Have a look at this link to follow the progress: https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/300.

[Shamael]

Thanks a lot! I'm looking forward to the new version!

[ThomasK]

Hello,

I am running mt-daapd 0.2.2-1 on a linksys nslu2 box.

With Itunes 5 on Windows it works without any problems.
I can play all the music from the Thomas Musicbox Share over
my network.

Now I also want to listen to my music library on my linux box.
(SuSE 9.3)

So I have compiled vlc 0.8.2 with the daap-option enabled and the libopendaap 0.4.0 lib.

In vlc when I open the playlist menu and click on the daap service
I get the following output

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[00000244] main private debug: looking for services_discovery module: 1 candidate [00000196] main module debug: using services_discovery module "daap" [00000244] main private debug: thread 1141902256 (services_discovery) created at priority 0 (src/playlist/services_discovery.c:72) [00000244] daap private debug: new share Thomas Musicbox [00000240] main playlist debug: adding playlist item `Cold Days, Hot Nights' ( daap://1:2031627 )

and vlc freezes.

What's wrong here?

best regards
Thomas