RPiForked-Daapd
This guide will show you how to install 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.
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
Contents
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 playback 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 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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