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Topic: Asus WL-500G Deluxe as iTunes server?

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Post #1
daniel
8 Jan 2008, 08:20

Hi,

I already asked the following in the WhiteRussion forum (2008-01-02 23:44:38), however, did no get an answer. Maybe WhiteRussion is definitely no longer the platform to go for this purpose? Any help is highly appreciated.

I would like to connect a huge external USB HD to my OpenWRT and use it as a DAAP server for iTunes. I am actually quite new to all this media server stuff so I do not know exactly where to start. What I have figured out is that there is a server called "mt-daap", which apparently has been renamed to "firefly" for newer versions. I searched the forums and the web for the terms {OpenWRT, mt-daap, firefly, iTunes} in various combinations, but have not found much. Apparently there was a mt-daap port by nico (http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=22398#p22398), but it seems to be no longer available. Overall, the number of hits on my queries where surprisingly low, so I am wondering if I am actually searching for the right things.

Maybe somebody here could help me:

- is it feasible at all to use my OpenWRT box for media sharing (no conversions)? I have a quite big library (~100GB)...

- is mt-daap the thing to look for?

- and if it is, where can I find it?

I am currently running WhiteRussion RC2. Yes, this is pretty old , however, has been running perfectly for years. I just never found a good reason to replace it with some newer version. Of course I would be willing to update to Kamikaze if necessary - using my router as an iTunes server would be a good reason smile

Thanks a lot!

Daniel

Post #2
macsat
8 Jan 2008, 09:34

a build for RC5 can be found here:
http://downloads.openwrt.org/backports/ … mipsel.ipk

I see no real reason why it wouldn't work on RC2 (though if I was you I would upgrade to either WhiteRussian 0.9 or Kamikaze :-) ).

I once tried the mt-daapd. It worked, but was quite slow indexing large amounts of mp3's. Hence - if your router is often rebooted, this could be an issue (as mt-daapd for some reason indexes all files every time it is restarted as far as I remember).

macsat

Post #3
forum2008
8 Jan 2008, 10:38

I tried the ushare patch attached to one of the tickets in Trac. But I was not able to compile it with latest Kamikaze sad

Post #4
daniel
8 Jan 2008, 14:56
macsat wrote:

a build for RC5 can be found here:
http://downloads.openwrt.org/backports/ … mipsel.ipk

I see no real reason why it wouldn't work on RC2 (though if I was you I would upgrade to either WhiteRussian 0.9 or Kamikaze :-) ).
macsat

Thanks macsat!

macsat wrote:

I once tried the mt-daapd. It worked, but was quite slow indexing large amounts of mp3's. Hence - if your router is often rebooted, this could be an issue (as mt-daapd for some reason indexes all files every time it is restarted as far as I remember).

Oh... it is not writing the index to disk or so? My router gets rebooted all the time (it is frequently turned off and on). Re-indexing 70000+ MP3s will probably take longer than the average uptime, so this might be the show-stopper.

Anyway, I will give it a try smile

Daniel

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