On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 21:25 +0800, Christopher Lees wrote:
> That's rather odd. Rhythmbox should have a DAAP plugin that is installed
> by default, that can either share or browse DAAP shares. You do need to
> enable it in the Plugins window. 

Thanks for the reply. I know it is odd and no one else seems to suffer
from it cause I asked the exact same question on the Ubuntu-users
mailing list and it went without a single reply. 

Here is a screenshot of my desktop, running Rhythmbox. As you can see,
DAAP plugin is clearly activated, but there is no 'sharing' tab in the
preferences menu. I also captured the version number of Gnome and the
output of 'uname -a' for reference. 

http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/2628/screenshotmk.jpg

> Also, if you have a home server and you
> want to share music from it, I recommend installing Tangerine on the
> server to do your DAAP sharing; it's lighter than running Rhythmbox and
> it can be done on a headless server :-)

I read about Tangerine, but couldn't figure out if it is streaming audio
over the network, or if it is just for controlling media playback on the
server from another machine. 

Also in this instance, my 'server' is just another Ubuntu desktop
machine, and quite a powerful one at that, so I'd have no issues just
running Rhythmbox/Banshee on it all the time, if there was some way to
share it. 

> Whatever you do, don't try to fix the problem by upgrading to Karmic.
> DAAP and DLNA support is completely, totally and utterly broken in
> Karmic, all servers and all clients (well... I haven't tried Mediatomb
> as the server or Banshee as the client yet).

Thanks for the heads up. I'm not planning up upgrading to Karmic until
December/January anyway. Hope things settle down by then. 

-- 
Aryan Ameri


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