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Diegocaro at 00:50, 18 September 2012

2012-09-18T00:50:05Z

Pr1sm: /* Configuring Forked-Daapd */

2012-04-29T15:21:16Z

‎Configuring Forked-Daapd

Pr1sm at 15:20, 29 April 2012

2012-04-29T15:20:45Z

Pr1sm: Created page with "This guide will show you how to install [https://github.com/jasonmc/forked-daapd forked-daapd] on Debian Squeeze. Forked-Daapd is a Daapd and RSP server allowing streaming of mus..."

2012-04-29T15:19:41Z

Created page with "This guide will show you how to install [https://github.com/jasonmc/forked-daapd forked-daapd] on Debian Squeeze. Forked-Daapd is a Daapd and RSP server allowing streaming of mus..."

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This guide will show you how to install [https://github.com/jasonmc/forked-daapd forked-daapd] on Debian Squeeze.
Forked-Daapd is a Daapd and RSP server allowing streaming of music from the pi to iTunes and airplay enabled devices over the network.
Most useful in my opinion is that it will also play music locally controlled remotely from any IOS device such as iPod touch, iPhone or iPad via the Apple remote app turning the pi in to a juke box.

Forked-daapd is in the Debian repositories allowing it to be installed via apt-get, however only version 0.11 is in the stable tree and so we have to install it via backports to get the latest versin 0.19

==Adding Backport Repositories:==
From the command prompt
sudo nano /etc/apt./sources.list
Add the line
deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main

Ctrl+X to exit, Y to save followed by enter

Update apt-get
sudo apt-get update

==Installing Forked-Daapd==
sudo apt-get -t squeeze-backports install forked-daapd

Press y and return when prompted
This should install successfully.

==Configuring Forked-Daapd==
Once installed the forked-daapd server will be started automatically, however we need to stop it while we configure it so that the changes are accepted

The following will stop the server
sudo /etc/init.d/forked-daapd stop

We will now edit the configuration file
sudo nano /etc/forked-daapd.conf

Change the line
directories = { "/srv/music" }

to point to wherever your music lives, I have mounted a USB drive with my library, the user "daapd" will require read access

Remove the # from before the line
card = "default"

This enables local play back on the pi

Ctrl+X to exit, Y to save followed by enter

Start forked-daapd back up
sudo /etc/init.d/forked-daapd start

==Testing it worked==
If it all went well, if you open iTunes on a computer connected to the same network a raspberrypi library should appear under shared, allowing you to stream music to you machine.

==Enabling remote==
If you have an ios device you can control the playback via the remote app, to set this up

Create a file where ever in the same directory as your music, it can be called anything but must have a .remote extension
touch /pi/music/temp.remote

Open it
nano /pi/music/temp.remote

Now add two lines, the first must be the exact name of your device (You can find this in Settings - General - About), the second is the passcode given by the remote app when adding a new library: for example:
GregsiPad
1234

Ctrl+X to exit, Y to save followed by enter

As soon as you do this the Remote app should add your library, in the 19-04 release of Debian ensure you enable sounds
sudo modprobe snd_bcm2835

If you have any problems change the logging level to info in the config and check the logs at /var/log/forked-daapd.log and post it [http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum/troubleshooting/forked-daapd-audio here] and ill try help you out.

It does seem to just stop streaming every so often which I am trying to figure out

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	sudo modprobe snd_bcm2835		sudo modprobe snd_bcm2835

		+	If you play a song using Remote app, but it closes, try add the daapd user to the audio group
		+	sudo adduser daapd audio

	If you have any problems change the logging level to info in the config and check the logs at /var/log/forked-daapd.log and post it [http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum/troubleshooting/forked-daapd-audio here] and ill try help you out.		If you have any problems change the logging level to info in the config and check the logs at /var/log/forked-daapd.log and post it [http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum/troubleshooting/forked-daapd-audio here] and ill try help you out.

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   card = "default"
-This enables local play back on the pi
+This enables local playback on the pi
 Ctrl+X to exit, Y to save followed by enter

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 This guide will show you how to install [https://github.com/jasonmc/forked-daapd forked-daapd] on Debian Squeeze.
 Forked-Daapd is a Daapd and RSP server allowing streaming of music from the pi to iTunes and airplay enabled devices over the network.
-Most useful in my opinion is that it will also play music locally controlled remotely from any IOS device such as iPod touch, iPhone or iPad via the Apple remote app turning the pi in to a juke box.
+Most useful in my opinion is that it will also play music locally controlled remotely from any IOS device such as iPod touch, iPhone or iPad via the Apple remote app.
 Forked-daapd is in the Debian repositories allowing it to be installed via apt-get, however only version 0.11 is in the stable tree and so we have to install it via backports to get the latest versin 0.19