iTunes 10, Firefly, forked-daapd

Apple recently introduced the new version of iTunes: iTunes 10. For those, like me, who are using Firefly to broadcast their music on their local network, you may have seen that iTunes 10 does not show the content of your remote playlist anymore 😟. The bad news is that a lot of commercial products are using it (especially NAS devices like Drobo…).

Someone started a thread about that on Apple's forum: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2564925

One guy says to have a look to forked-daapd which is a full rewriting of Firefly. So I did. On my Debian box, a package is available in "testing":

$ sudo apt-get install forked-daapd

Change the directory where the music is in /etc/forked-daapd.conf, restart and that's all. Then go to iTunes, the shared library should be visible and filled with your music!

Since Firefly is a dead project (no activity for a while), everybody using it should migrate to forked-daapd.

Note: this is my 100th post on this blog!