CyberGarage

Digital Audio Access Protocol : I am studying the protocol for iTunes using the following site. I couldn't find the technical documents from Apple's site, but I knew that iTunes finds the server using Rendezvous and the server is implemented using HTTP simply.

http://tapjam.net/daap/

http://daap.sourceforge.net/

mt-daapd : I have installed the DAAP server into KURO-BOX to refer iTunes Server for Linux and KURO-BOX Users BBS as follows.

Howl : http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/

>tar xvfz howl-0.9.6.tar.gz

>cd howl-0.9.6/

>./configure

>make

>make install



libid3tag : http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/

>apt-get install zlib zlib-devel

>tar xvfz libid3tag-0.15.1b.tar.gz

>cd libid3tag-0.15.1b/

>./configure

>make

>make install



mt-daapd : http://mt-daapd.sourceforge.net/

>apt-get install gdbm gdbm-devel

>tar xvfz mt-daapd-0.2.0.tar.gz

>cd mt-daapd-0.2.0/

>./configure

>make

>make install

>ldconfig

>cp contrib/mt-daapd.conf /etc

>mkdir /mnt/mp3

>mt-daapd

>tail /var/log/messages

  mt-daapd[19741]: Starting rendezvous daemon

  mt-daapd[19741]: Could not open songs database (/var/cache/mt-daapd/songs.gdb)

  mt-daapd[19741]: Aborting

  mt-daapd[19742]: Rendezvous pipe closed... Exiting

  mt-daapd[19742]: Aborting

>killall mt-daapd

>mkdir /var/cache/mt-daapd

>mt-daapd

>tail /var/log/messages

  mt-daapd[19748]: Starting rendezvous daemon

  mt-daapd[19748]: Starting signal handler

  mt-daapd[19748]: Loading playlists

  mt-daapd[19748]: Initializing database

  mt-daapd[19752]: Starting mp3 scan

  mt-daapd[19769]: Starting web server from /usr/share/mt-daapd on port 3689

  mt-daapd[19769]: Registering rendezvous names

  mt-daapd[19769]: Scanned 0 songs in  0 seconds

>cp contrib/mt-daapd /etc/init.d/

>vi /etc/init.d/mt-daapd

  start() {

          echo -n $"Starting DAAP server: "

          #set the full path to the installed mt-daapd

          daemon /usr/local/sbin/mt-daapd

          RETVAL=$?

          echo

          [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/mt-daapd

  }

  stop() {

          echo -n $"Shutting down DAAP server: "

          #use killproc instead of killall

          #killall -INT mt-daapd

          killproc mt-daapd

          RETVAL=$?



          echo

          [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/mt-daapd

  }

>/etc/init.d/mt-daapd restat

  Shutting down DAAP server:     [  OK  ]

  Starting DAAP server:          [  OK  ]

>chkconfig --level 345 mt-daapd on

>chkconfig --list

  mt-daapd        0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off