Hi Aryan, Do you have python-daap installed? That is the common library that the media players use.
daap is a cool protocol if you want to share between computers and it works fine. I prefer to just set up a common nfs or samba share and keep all your files together instead. I've used firefly media server to export daap in the past, i'll have to set it up again. On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 15:10 +1100, Aryan Ameri wrote: > 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 > > -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
